Past studies suggested that decision support systems (DSS) must be an “enabling” system aiming to enhance users’ capabilities and to leverage their skills and intelligence. This suggests that users be the center of DSS and users’ characteristics be an important factor of explaining their DSS acceptance behavior. Since DSS are aimed to work in semi-structured and unstructured task environment, p...

To increase network users’ satisfaction and continuous behavior, e-commerce platform is concentrated on providing users more enjoyment during consuming online. Online personalized system can help e-commerce platform know more users’ preference, which aims to increase degree of match between service, product and preference, need, but users pay attention to privacy concern during this process whi...

SRI International’s real-time intrusion-detection expert system (IDES) system contains a statistical subsystem that observes behavior on a moniioreci cornpuier system and adaptively learns what is normal for individual users and groups OJ users. The statistical subsystem also monitors observed behavior and iclentifes behavior as a potential intrusion (or misuse by authorized users) if it deviat...

A key objective of information technology (IT) research is to assess the value of technology for users and to understand the factors that ascertain this value in order to better deploy IT resources. A variety of new models are developed to understand the users’ IT behavior; it seems reasonable to examine if the existing models of users’ behavior will still apply. This paper uses structural equa...

The characteristics of users' browsing behaviors on websites can be used to analyze system performance as well as network communication, understand users’ reaction and motivation, and build adaptive websites. However, the motivation, requirement and experience of users may dynamically change, which cause difficulty in exactly refining a stable behavior pattern and describing their shifted inter...

To better meet users’ underlying navigational requirement, search engines like Baidu has developed general recommendation engine and provided related entities on the right side of the search engine results page(SERP). However, users’ behavior have not been well investigated after the association of individual queries in search engine. To better understand users’ navigational activities, we prop...

This study examines post-adoption behavior in the Internet Service Provider (ISP) industry. Three sets of findings are reported. First, while the needs of service continuers and service discontinuers are different, their most frequently cited needs or service requirements are the same, and variations occur only for less frequently cited needs. Second, ISPs operate in a price-sensitive market, w...

Much research has been conducted to investigate personality and daily behavior of these only children (“Onlies”) due to the Chinese one-child-per-family policy, and report the singleton generation to be more selfish. As Microblog becomes increasingly popular recently in China, we studied cyber behavior of Onlies and children with siblings (“Others”) on Sina Microblog (“Weibo”), a leading Microb...