The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...

An electronic survey was performed in summer 1997 to study today's use of the World Wide Web by German companies. Those companies were contacted by e-mail and asked to fill out a questionnaire which was provided on the Web server of our university. Topics included purpose of WWW commitment, benefits encountered, success factors, costs, organizational aspects, and technologies. The results of th...

One of the important aspects of market and competitive intelligence is the observation and analysis of a partner, customer or competitor’s relations with other companies. Using Web-based sources such as press releases, corporate Web sites or news articles and text mining technologies such as Named Entity Recognition, it is possible to automatically extract company relations out of Web content a...

The number of attacks is increasing day by day, especially the web attacks due to the shift of the majority of companies towards web applications. Therefore, the security of their sensitive data against attackers becomes a crucial matter for all organization and companies. Thus the necessity to use intrusion detection systems are required in order to increases the protection and prevent attacke...

The contemporary information technology and changing habits of consumers using Web-based platforms provides new possibilities for companies to exploit the innovativeness and technical abilities of consumers in their research and development work. Because of international platforms, this kind of crowdsourcing is a source for transcultural incremental and radical innovations for companies. The pu...

Lack of trust in online companies is a primary reason why many web users do not shop online. This study proposes a model to explain how new customers of a web-based company develop initial trust in the company after their first visit. The model is empirically tested using a questionnaire-based field study. The results indicate that perceived company reputation and willingness to customize produ...

Web-based commerce has brought great challenges and opportunities to companies. To seize the opportunities, the company must work out well-conceived web-based marketing strategy, which, to great extent, relies on the good understanding of consumer behavior in web-based commerce. Based on general theoretical framework of study on consumer behavior and current achievement in this area both overse...

this study was aimed at determining intra and inter-observer concordance rates in the gleason scoring of prostatic adenocarcinoma, before and after a web-based educational course. in this self-controlled study, 150 tissue samples of prostatic adenocarcinoma are re-examined to be scored according to the gleason scoring system. then all pathologists attend a free web-based course. afterwards, the...

With the breakneck speed of today's business world, staying competitive and successful depends on the knowledge and education within companies. More and more companies are turning to education as a means to create a unified and successful working environment. Web-based learning allows businesses to maintain their momentum through offering flexible, timely options for workforces that must stay o...