Despite the heavy promotion by the local government, the plentiful provision of IT educational tools, and the sufficient IT skills of prospective users, the adoption of IT in classroom education by primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong is still minor. By focusing on the use of IT educational Websites, which are freely available for teachers, this paper attempts to investigate the f...

Existing authentication models for e-commerce systems take into account satisfying legitimate user requirements described in security standards. Yet, the process of introducing countermeasures to block malicious user requirements is ad hoc and relies completely on the security designer expertise. This leads to expensive implementation life cycles if defects related to the design model were disc...

Web services hold the promise for the so-called dynamic e-business movement. Currently, many organizations are either in the process of adopting Web services technology or seriously evaluating this option. One of the major concerns of senior management in this endeavor is the cost of adopting Web services. In this paper, a model is proposed to evaluate an organization’s position in a technology...

For addressing the growing problem of junk E-mail on the Internet, this paper proposes an effective E-mail classifying and cleansing method in this paper. Incidentally, E-mail messages can be modelled as semi-structured documents consisting of a set of fields with pre-defined semantics and a number of variable length free-text fields. Our proposed method deals with both fields having pre-define...

BACKGROUND A&E departments are key points of contact for many people with mental health problems. Various models of care have been developed in A&E departments for delivering mental health services, but few have been assessed for effectiveness. The present study aimed to assess the impact of a dedicated A&E psychiatric nurse service on several outcomes relevant to patients and clinicians. MET...

Collaborative Commerce (C-Commerce) is the name given to commercial relationships carried out over a collaborative framework to integrate enterprises’ business processes, share customer relationships and manage knowledge across enterprise boundaries. This is a business strategy that leverages the extensive reach of the Internet. C-Commerce places emphasis on supply chain involvement where membe...

In this paper, we propose a new content recommendation system called Intelligent Content Recommendation System for E-Learning for selecting and retrievingthe exact e-content for teaching the subject “Software Engineering” based on group discussions through the social media. In this process, we analyze the various contents pertaining to the subject Software Engineeringand select the suitable eco...

In the online shopping process, when potential consumers recognize a need for some merchandise or service, they go to the Internet and search for need-related information. This study aims to investigate the impact of perceived value on customer intention to use the internet is an effective tool for E-Shopping and, more specifically, the impact that perceived value (comprising functional, social...