Taiwanese National Park Headquarters employ advanced information technologies to attract travellers, researchers, and other visitors, but it is likely that not all Headquarters have clear knowledge about how successful their websites are. This study proposes an effective model for evaluating national park websites. The model first applies the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEM...

Introduction. Knowing the credibility of information about genetically modified food on the Internet is critical to the everyday life information seeking of consumers as they form opinions about this nascent agricultural technology. The Website Quality Evaluation Tool (WQET) is a valuable instrument that can be used to determine the credibility of Websites on any topic. Method. This study sough...

BACKGROUND Different theoretical frameworks support the use of interactive websites to promote sexual health. Although several Web-based interventions have been developed to address sexual risk taking among young people, no evaluated interventions have attempted to foster behavior change through moderated interaction among a virtual network of adolescents (who remain anonymous to one another) a...

We investigate the problem of revenue optimal mechanism design [Myerson, 1981] under the context of the partial rationality model, where buyers randomize between two modes: rational and irrational. When a buyer is irrational (can be thought of as lazy), he acts according to certain fixed strategies, such as bidding his true valuation. The seller cannot observe the buyer’s valuation, or his rati...

This paper studies the characteristics and behavior of AntNet routing algorithm and introduces two complementary strategies to improve its adaptability and robustness particularly under unpredicted traffic conditions such as network failure or sudden burst of network traffic. Both of the proposed strategies use the knowledge of backward ants with undesirable trip times called Dead Ants to balan...

Over 40 published program evaluations have attempted to address the effectiveness of ‘‘batterer programs’’ in preventing reassaults. Summaries and meta-analysis of these evaluations suggest little or no ‘‘program effect.’’ Methodological shortcomings, however, compromise most of these quasiexperimental evaluations. Three recent experimental studies appear to confirm little or no effect, but imp...

One of the biggest challenges in wireless communication systems consists in achieving flexible dual-band receivers with maximum hardware share and minimum power consumption. The key for surpassing this challenge is the feasibility and performance evaluation for the different receiver topologies at system level stage. This task has its degree of complexity, by the fact that the receiver blocks c...

Reducing nonresponse and attrition is a primary goal of the SIPP Methods Panel; a key strategy toward that goal is the design of a more efficient questionnaire. This paper describes an experiment which tests new questionnaire efficiencies for SIPP's asset ownership questions. The standard SIPP questionnaire includes a 12-question battery about different types of assets, some of which (for examp...

This paper presents a framework for automated website usability evaluation that combines different techniques for data-gathering and analysis. The AWUSA approach is based on the combination of information architecture, automated usability evaluation and web mining techniques. Its key components were implemented as an analysis tool.

The most experienced and successful E-commerce companies are beginning to realize that key determinants of success or failure are not merely a web presence or low price but delivering on a high quality website. To attain the desired quality of website software, it is necessary to produce a framework and model that enables evaluation of a website’s quality. This paper defines and categorizes the...