introduction discovering and understanding customer needs and expectations are considered as important factors on customer satisfaction and play vital role to maintain the current activity among its competitors, proceeding and obtaining customer satisfaction which are critical factors to design a successful production; thus the successful organizations must meet their needs containing the quali...

the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

W investigate the association between information contained in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) metric and future stock market performance. Some past research has provided results suggesting that the financial markets misprice customer satisfaction; i.e., firms advantaged in customer satisfaction are posited to earn positive future-period abnormal stock returns. We reexamine this...

Service research has emphasized triad relationships between a firm, employees and customers. To coordinate these stakeholders effectively, it is highly important to understand what service activities are beneficial to all or some of these stakeholders. Yet, the recent increase in C2C interaction may make the problem more complex. This study proposes a methodology combining statistical technique...

regarding the importance of the customer in today'scompetitive world, and considering the previous researches whichindicated the cost of attracting new customers is far more than the costof maintaining customer loyalty, studying the methods of obtainingand maintaining customer loyalty in various businesses has received ahigh priority. the purpose of this study is to determine thecomponents...

Software agents, semi-intelligent autonomous tools, will play an increasing role in electronic commerce applications. In this paper we give an overview of the work conducted at MIT’s Media Laboratory on different types of agents for electronic commerce: from consumer to consumer “smart” classified ads systems, to merchant agents that provide integrative negotiation capabilities; from agents tha...