e-tourism has evolved as a mainstay business for tourist service providers. it plays an integral role in the dissemination of information and influencing consumer’s preferences and satisfaction. the purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of service quality perceptions of consumers in e-tourism in the indian context. it also aims to understand the relative impact of these service qu...

description of the most relevant system agents as well as their information flow is presented. The advantages derived from agents technology application are conferred.

purpose: this study aimed to measure the information load of words in farsi scientific texts and determine the relationship between some properties of the words and information load of the texts based on shannon entropy. methodology: the study was conducted based on the content analysis of a number of 320 articles that were published in scientific-research iranian journals in 2009. and the arti...

Abstract— For Kids searching the relevant content and weeding out the distracted content is the most challenging task as there is no fix rule to classify which content is appropriate for a kid who is searching to complete his homework and which is not. The Main aim of the study is to design an IR in such a way that kids remain focused on what they are searching, instead of distracting and jumpi...

Sentiment extraction from user-generated online content to predict stock price movements has become an active research field. This paper gives an overview of common approaches to this topic and analyzes the content generated by the financial social network Seekingalpha.com. The first finding is that a large proportion of users’ attention is focused on only a few stocks. Regarding these stocks i...

User generated content (UGC) is an important source of information to consumers, yet prior research has not fully explored how certain aspects of the content, specifically the tone, perception of quality and source credibility influence attitudes and intentions to buy. This study investigates how the tone of UGC influences perceived content quality, source credibility, attitudes and consumer in...

Affective bias, the tendency to differentially prioritise the processing of negative relative to positive events, is commonly observed in clinical and non-clinical populations. However, why such biases develop is not known. Using a computational framework, we investigated whether affective biases may reflect individuals' estimates of the information content of negative relative to positive even...

The Aldrich Archive is a collection of technical and marketing material covering the period from 1977 to 2000; the physical documents are in the process of being digitised and made available on the internet. The Aldrich Archive includes contemporaneous case studies of end-user computer systems that were used for marketing purposes. This paper analyses these case studies of innovative informatio...