In early 1991, a networked current awareness service was implemented by two units of the University of Michigan (UM), the Alfred Taubman Medical Library (TML) and the Office of Health Sciences Information Technology and Networking (ITN). The goal was to expand on the success of UM-MEDLINE, which allows faculty, staff, and students free, unlimited searching of MEDLINE and other databases via Pap...

Internet self-efficacy (ISE), or the beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute courses of Internet actions required to produce given attainments, is a potentially important factor to explain the consumers’ decisions in e-commerce use, such as eservice. In this study, we introduce two types of ISE (i.e., general Internet self-efficacy and Web-specific self-efficacy) as new factors th...

The composition of Web services to handle complex transactions such as finance, billing, and traffic information services is gaining considerable momentum as a way to enable business-to-business (B2B) collaborations.1 Web services allow organizations to share costs, skills, and resources by joining their applications and systems.2 Although current technologies provide the foundation for buildin...

The combination of the electronic business and the exhibition industry has become an inevitable trend of the development of the exhibition industry. Through the efforts of many years, China Import & Export Fair has built a solid basic hardware platform for electronic business, hence made the exhibition management and electronic service e-enabled and web-enabled, then established the outward com...

EMBASSI is the name of a project, which began in summer 1999 with the cooperation of several industrial partners, SMEs, research institutes and universities. As a so-called “Leitprojekt” or focus project, EMBASSI is funded by the German government (BMBF) and addresses innovative methods of man-machine interaction. EMBASSI is less technology driven, focusing more on an incorporation of individua...

Internet and cloud based services involve electronic interactions that are normally regulated using service agreements (SA). Once an agreement between business partners is in place, a service can be monitored and/or enforced using an SA equivalent electronic contract. Because of the dynamic nature of such Internet and cloud based relationships, the rapidity at which electronic contracts are con...

Considering the importance of the concept of strategic alignment of information technology (IT) in today economic organizations, this study attempted to extract the organization's IT strategies in order to increase the degree of strategic alignment and consequently the optimal strategies in the field of marketing and service delivery for social security organization. Using QFD technique and hie...

Electronic government employs electronic services to facilitate interaction with citizens and enterprises and deliver a rich and high quality spectrum of services. Development of electronic services can be greatly assisted, both in terms of development cost and roll-out time, by exploiting the reusability inherent in them. Reusability may be promoted by identifying reusable objects in the conte...