As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

Mobile payments have been deployed by businesses for more than a decade. Customers use mobile payments if they trust in this relatively new payment method, have a belief and confidence in, as well as reliance on its services and applications. Despite its potential, the current literature shows that there is lack of customer trust in B2C mobile payments, and a lack of studies that determine the ...

The issue of leadership has been investigated from several perspectives; however, very less from ethical perspective. With the growing number of corporate scandals and unethical roles played by business leaders in several parts of the world, the need to examine leadership from ethical perspective cannot be over emphasized. The importance of leadership credibility has been discussed in the authe...

Customers are realizing the importance and benefits of shopping online such as convenience, comparison, product research, larger selection, and lower prices. The dynamic nature of e-commerce evokes online businesses to make alterations in their business processes and decisions making to satisfy customers’ needs. Online businesses are adopting Business Intelligence (BI) tools and systems with th...

The cloud computing paradigm can provide elastic and dynamic resources on demand, which facilitates service providers to make profits resulting from the long tail effect. So it is vitally important to ensure that cloud services can be acceptable to more and more potential users. However, it is challenging for potential users to discover the trustworthy cloud services due to the deficiency of us...

The authors present a research based in Spain and carried out between 2011 and 2014 on the social organizations and affective processes involved in social movements. Using extracts from narrative interviews, they explore how participants in social protests cross attachment and technology in order to develop trusting relationships. The way they propose to analyse the issue of trust in social org...

Privacy preserving data mining is one of the most demanding research areas within the data mining community. In many cases, multiple parties may wish to share aggregate private data without disclosing any private information at user side. Over the last few years this has naturally lead to a growing interest in security or privacy issues in data mining. More precisely, it became clear that disco...