Three-parameter lognormal distribution has been demonstrated for applications in electromigration data analysis, especially for Cu interconnect structures with insufficient redundancy. Examples are given on estimating parameter values from experimental data using the maximum likelihood method. Detailed analyses are presented on confidence bound estimations of the parameters and their propagatio...

There are more than 123 million web netizens in China, but B2C electronic commerce is still moving at a slow pace, the main problem is that B2C website has not been customized for customercentric service. This paper intends to solve the problem that technology is not in tuned with customercentric service that focusing on the design of websites. This paper presents a customercentric service fram...

As customers become more skilled in the use of internet, many companies have gradually established their websites with more and more enormous information to get future competition in electronic commerce (EC). However, the miscellaneous information often brings the users at a loss. Web personalization provides a solution to improvement of information overloading on websites. The objective of web...

A user-centered approach in the development lifecycle of ecommerce websites is nowadays a crucial factor in the success of any on-line business. The purpose of this paper is twofold: a) to identify the factors that affect e-commerce website usability and b) to analyze the role of those factors in increasing the effectiveness of ecommerce web sites. Furthermore, it presents the application of a ...

Consumer fraud on the Internet is slowly mounting, resulting in appreciable monetary losses, and growing distrust of e-commerce websites. Information assurance has been proposed to be one solution to counter this, to which consumers have also been favorably receptive. We explore here the extent of adoption of such assurance among Business-to-Consumer (B2C) information goods/services websites. T...

Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce...