E-Commerce

A large amount of content is generated everyday in social media. One of the main goals of content creators is to spread their information to a large audience. There are many factors that affect information spread, such as posting time, location …

The rapid growth of social networking usage has initiated a new business model called C2C s-commerce which has opened a novel opportunity for SNS users to conduct commercial activities among members. Novice vendors (low-maturity merchants) perform …

Profiling Web users is a fundamental issue for Web mining and social network analysis. Its basic tasks include extracting basic information, mining user preferences, and inferring user demographics (Tang et al. in ACM Trans Knowl Discov Data …

With the increasing popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs), community detection has emerged as an important and practical issue. One of the main shortcomings of the previous methods is that cluster’s centers have been selected …

The new marketing practices and developments have had incredible impact on consumers’ purchasing process and information-acquisition process, and most notably, social media is changing marketing. The research setting for this paper refers to …

The principal aim of this study is to develop a model for analyzing and assessing industrial policies based on the concept of institutional sustainability. Institutional sustainability should inform public policies in order to improve the …

In the modern economy there is a tendency for state intervention to intensify. Crisis phenomena in the economic systems of many countries and the world as a whole determine the need for state economic policy to take a more proactive turn. The …

Nowadays, even in Romania, we faced with process of digitalization of financial system, especially of banking system. Natural person—banks relationships are more and more distant as location, but more and faster as financial transaction results …