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Current data mining algorithms are impractical for huge amounts of data because they are time consuming and therefore inefficient. Association rule mining is one of the most famous data mining algorithms. Many parallel and distributed methods have been ...

In the new electronic era, the increasing amounts of various resources make it more difficult to use information at workplace. Bring your own device (BYOD) makes employee in the business organization to handle these various information resources in the ...

Online healthcare forums provide a valuable platform for people to discover knowledge. However, existing approaches rely on the syntactic information units, such as a sentence, a post, or a thread, to bind different pieces of information in a forum. In ...

This paper investigates the role of perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived risk (PR) in social media adoption and use within workspace. The proposed model is tested using data collected from 2,556 social media users at ...

In this paper, we investigate the role of Value Added Services (VAS) in consumers' adoption of mobile payments. VAS are supplementary digital services offered in connection with mobile payments; in this study exemplified by receipts, loyalty cards, and ...

In this paper, we present an empirical study that conducts the impact of Rated Tags on customers' decision making process in online stores. A Rated Tag is a combination of a user-generated tag and a 5-star rating scale. The Rated Tags system aims to ...

We examine the learning curves of individual software developers in Open-Source Software (OSS) Development. We collected the dataset of multi-year code change histories from the repositories for five open source software projects involving more than 100 ...

Clinical education has a great impact on the health care quality. In a hospital, clinical teachers often devote much time to provide services for patients in the pressed health care environment. Clinicians have less or no time to teaching clinical ...

The Smartphone platform market is a "multi-layer" two-sided market in that it requires the coordination of two strategic firms -- an OS vendor and a mobile carrier -- to join the customers on both sides of the network, namely application developers and ...

Recent advances in information technologies have provided firms unprecedented ability to manage online social interactions among their customers. Despite their growing popularity and importance, there are very few studies that have examined the optimal ...

Successful procurement involves vendor selection through appropriate market mechanisms. The advancement of information technologies has enabled different mechanisms applicable to similar procurement situations. Advantages and disadvantages of using such ...

Group buying is emerging as a new online buying model, in which an initiator takes the initiative and other users participate through a virtual community. A group of people who have the same need buy products online together, taking advantage of numbers ...

In order to specifically address the issue of customer retention in online marketplaces, and drawing from prior related work, we propose service quality, business value and customer loyalty as a three-stage service transformation that extends the impact ...

At a time when organizations are pouring increasing amounts of money into IT, what moderates the effect of that investment on positive outcomes? Consumer, user, and business manager perceptions of the value of IT investments are quite variable. Some ...