Utility mining, which refers to the discovery of itemsets with utilities higher than a user-specified minimum utility threshold, is an important task and has a wide range of applications, especially in e-commerce. But setting an appropriate minimum utility threshold is a difficult problem. If the minimum threshold is set to low, too many high utility itemsets will be generated and it takes a lo...

Information Technology has permeated many facets of work life in industrialized nations. With the expansion of Internet access we are now witnessing an expansion of the use of information technology in the form of electronic commerce. This current study tests the applicability of one prominent information technology uptake model, the Technology Acceptance Model (Int. J. Man Mach. Stud. 38 (1993...

Firms competing in the arena of Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) strive to understand the new business potentials which the Internet offers. This paper considers Virtual Communities of Transaction as an important arena to realize these potentials. Since they can grow trust, cultivate a collective awareness, and stress community knowledge, they can be a valuable component of E-Commerce Sites. We...

rapid growth of e-commerce has made the competition quite different. in this new environment customers have wide choices and are looking forward to the support which guarantees the delivery of what they have chosen. this leads to complexity in the relationship between the provider and the customer which obviously is made more in a b2b environment. service level agreement (sla) is a key tool to ...

Today, social media as a channel for offering educational services has become an extensive and effective educational tool for the students. This survey aimed to investigate the effective factors on intention towards social commerce of educational services among students. The statistical population included social media users at Isfahan university of medical sciences in Iran. 214 students were s...

The main purpose of the paper is to explore and discuss the influence of product type on customer interaction in electronic commerce. We have conducted two qualitative case studies in distance selling companies to inductively explore how the product characteristics of garments and music-CDs influence customer interaction. We apply a product classification scheme built on product theory to chara...

this study determines the impact of e-commerce (ec) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( tfp) of iran country as a developing country in comparison with us standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. the model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. on the...

electronic commerce as one of the most important of innovation aspects in the process of doing business is used by many organizations and companies in the world. cooperatives as the main part of the country's economy have fundamental role in improving and promoting of economic. therefore, innovation methods and tools, new processes and perform business tasks such as e-commerce will play an impo...

The method of creating an automated enterprise management system is considered. based on the ideas imitation approach and fuzzy mathematics. Real-time planning goal. relevant in context setting up market for goods services with expansion e-commerce. model formation plan execution orders received