Electronic government, so called e-government, has been broadly defined as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to transform government by making it more accessible, effective, and accountable (infoDev & CDT, 2002). The Internet is indeed the most powerful and popular means of delivering e-government. Hence, Web sites have been employed as a platform for delivering a wide r...

The recent emergence of internet-based electronic market places is changing the structure of traditional marketing channels in a fundamental way. Collaboration may increase because of lower transaction costs related with increased information availability. At the same time these same factors, through the effect they have on mutual dependency and uncertainty in the buyer-seller dyad, are conside...

BACKGROUND Determining real effects on internet dependency is too crucial with unbiased and robust statistical method. MARS is a new non-parametric method in use in the literature for parameter estimations of cause and effect based research. MARS can both obtain legible model curves and make unbiased parametric predictions. METHODS In order to examine the performance of MARS, MARS findings wi...

The characterization and quantitative description of Internet traffic is becoming increasingly important in light of the rapid growth being observed in the size and usage of the network. Modeling of modern teletraffic and large telecommunications networks with fractal stochastic processes has been investigated by analyzing traffic measurements collected on the “Federico II” university WAN link ...

This study examines the associations of harmonious passion (HP) and obsessive passion (OP) for Internet activities with Eysenckian personality dimensions in a sample of 421 university students. Results show that psychoticism correlates positively with both HP and OP; extroversion correlates positively with HP only; and neuroticism has no correlation with passion for Internet activities. Additio...

This study integrates research on problematic Internet use to explore the cognitive and psychological predictors of negative consequences associated with playing massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Participants recruited from online discussion boards completed self-report measures on their online game-related cognitions and psychological condition, social skills, psychological well-bein...

In this paper, we present a case study that illustrates the utility of pattern tableau discovery for data quality analysis. Given a usersupplied integrity constraint, such as a boolean predicate expected to be satisfied by every tuple, a functional dependency, or an inclusion dependency, a pattern tableau is a concise summary of subsets of the data that satisfy or fail the constraint. We descri...

In order to enable trading services on the Internet and sensible cost comparisons, generic means for capturing price plans have to be established. In this paper, we present a generic pricing model which draws from established literature in business economics. We care for the context-dependency of price plans by contributing a management infrastructure for price determination.