Recommender systems are powerful tools not only for e-commerce but for several areas of our Internet life. As the web has been developed, newer and newer technologies have become available to support data collection algorithms. In this paper, we present a new AJAX-based implicit data collection method which can invisibly change the user interface and collect user behavior data in real time. The...

INTRODUCTION In a physician-pharmacist collaborative-care (PPCC) intervention, community pharmacists were responsible for initiating lipid-lowering pharmacotherapy and adjusting the medication dosage. They attended a 1-day interactive workshop supported by a treatment protocol and clinical and communication tools. Afterwards, changes in pharmacists' knowledge, their skills, and their satisfacti...

The upsurge of Internet and e-commerce strengthens the idea that knowledge is the key resource for competitive advantage, because such technologies offer opportunities to acquire and share knowledge with no geographical or temporal limits. Nevertheless, the experience shows that the practical implementation of new business strategies, grounded on the deliberate exploitation of knowledge though ...

The evolution of the World Wide Web from hypermedia information repositories to web applications such as social networking, wikis or blogs has introduced a new paradigm where users are no longer passive web consumers. Instead, users have become active contributors to web applications, so introducing a high level of dynamism in their behavior. Moreover, this trend is even expected to rise in the...

Matchmaking is an important aspect of E-Commerce interactions. The current trend in B2B E-Commerce automation is towards complex interactions for service provision. In this context, matchmaking services require rich and flexible metadata as well as matching algorithms. The Semantic Web initiative at W3C is gaining momentum and generating suitable technologies and tools to cover both the metadat...

This paper characterizes the complexity of a knowledge worker’s environment in today’s business enterprise. This environment, with its ever-changing landscape of tasks, processes, tools, and technologies are making prohibitive demands on the knowledge worker’s time and attention. To aid in the successful navigation of this complex environment, this paper examines usage of software agent for e-s...

We present the adaptation of our model for the validation of key distribution and authentication protocols to address specific needs of protocols for electronic commerce. The two models defer in both the threat scenario and in the formalization. We demonstrate the suitability of our adaptation by analyzing a specific version of the Internet Billing Server protocol introduced by Carnegie Mellon ...

E-Commerce Web based applications designed to facilitate Data-exchange collaboration are enjoying growing popularity. In the next few years, business companies will want their web resources linked to ontological content –because of the many powerful tools that will be available for using it by potential customers. Thus, product information will be exchanged between applications, allowing comput...

Web usage mining is the process of extracting useful information from users history databases associated to an e-commerce website. The extraction is usually performed by data mining techniques applied on server log data or data obtained from specific tools such as Google Analytics. This paper presents the methodology used in an e-commerce website of extra virgin olive oil sale called www.OrOliv...

Quality has been established as a key factor in ensuring the success of E-commerce in attracting and retaining customers. To help in this, numerous software metrics and website quality models have been developed, with a correspondingly large literature. We provide a critical review of this literature and the state-of-the-art. Most of the wide ranges of E-commerce website evaluation models give ...