Spam e-mails have become a serious technological and economic problem. So far we have been reasonably able to resist spam e-mails and use the Internet for regular communication by deploying complementary anti-spam approaches. However, if we are to avert ...

Understanding user acceptance of the Internet, especially the usage intention of virtual communities, is important in explaining the fact that virtual communities have been growing at an exponential rate in recent years. This paper studies the trust of ...

We analyze how online reviews can be used to evaluate product differentiation strategy based on the theories of hyperdifferentiation and resonance marketing. Hyperdifferentiation says that firms can now produce almost anything that will appeal to ...

The hitherto static Web is today extended in its applications by a dynamic component with the use of Web Services for intercompany cooperation. With their employment, business processes can be executed in a more efficient and effective way. However, ...

Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search services based on a user's information requirement in a decision making ...

We explored whether Fisher and Durrance's [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on information flow within digital economy. Data collection methods included content ...

The Internet provides for an incredible simplification and cost reduction of music distribution. However, the music industry has placed the blame on free music downloading on the Internet and on other computer technologies of music reproduction for the ...

Web services systems impose additional complexity upon software maintenance and evolution processes. To handle it, we propose a framework for evolving and maintaining Web service systems. Our framework includes organisation, role, and process changes. ...

The increasing availability of web services necessitates efficient discovery and execution framework. The use of xml at various levels of web services standards poses challenges to the above process. OWL-S is a service ontology and language, whose ...

Businesses and governments are continuing to expand the use of the internet to provide a wide range of information and transactional services to consumers. These changes present barriers to people without internet connections in their homes. Public ...

Managerial decisions regarding software functionality additions at Internet portals are interesting to senior managers involved in e-commerce. Portals can leverage software functionality additions to improve their sites' capabilities to create value for ...

We explore online technical support of open source software by a study of postings to discussion boards. Our results indicate that there are several types of detail that are required by the help-givers to be able to diagnose and remediate help-seekers' ...

Online privacy has been a significant concern of customers in online transactions. Several technical, economics based, and regulatory mechanisms have been proposed to address online privacy. One proposed market-based mechanism is the privacy seal. In ...

Confidentiality via Camouflage (CVC) is a practical method for giving unlimited, correct, numerical responses to ad-hoc queries to an on-line database, while not compromising confidential numerical data . Responses are in the form of intervals that are ...

Usability is a key component of websites that are commercially successful. Interactivity has been inconclusively linked to website usability. This study strengthens the theoretical understanding of how interactivity affects usability by measuring user ...

For decades transnational communities of immigrants have used various forms of communication to maintain ties with their places of origin. The Internet constitutes an alternative medium through which the sense of community (SOC) can be reinforced and ...

In this paper, we propose a data mining framework that utilizes the concept of social network for the targeted advertising of products. This approach discovers the cohesive subgroups from customer's social network which is derived from customer's ...

Recommendation systems are widely used on the Internet to assist customers in finding the products or services that best fit with their individual preferences. While current implementations successfully reduce information overload by generating ...