Innovation in the High-Tech Economy

As a new health care model, E-health represents the future of health care development. But there are a lot of problems during the process of construction and popularization in China. In this paper, we focus on the complex problems in the course of E-health development, develop a soft system methodology to analyze and construct models, and finally propose solutions to e-health development.

In order to build an e-commerce website of eco bags welcomed by Macau people, this research analyzes feasibility of eco bag website by questionnaire. Firstly, Pareto indicates the highest percentage of consumer interest in eco bag website among these three factors: namely online product, website design and LOHAS. Secondly, a path chart illustrates cause-effect relationships among website design, online product, LOHAS, and buying behavior. Moreover, on the basis of Pareto improvement, website design, online product, LOHAS, and buying behavior are improved. Finally, a conclusion is that, compared to online product and LOHAS, the percentage of consumer interest in website design is the highest and cause-effect relationships in variables are found. Meantime, through constant improvement, utility ratio of website is improved greatly and buyers as well as makers get benefit. The research helps building a successful eco bag website and is a valuable reference for a mutual benefit for online consumers and makers.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) from the examples of trade between China, Japan, Korea and US in the manufacturing industry. The gravity model is used to determine the effect of the TBT on trade values. The results indicate that the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) do have negative effects on trade in the long term, and the governments and economies should actually reduce the amount of this non-tariff barrier.

This paper attempts to provide a multidimensional view of the existing research in the area of Business Model for Internet companies (E Business Models). The paper highlights the emerging themes prevalent among researchers in the area of E Business Model research. The paper proposes a grouping framework to promote structure to the reviewed literature. The review presents that research in the domain of E Business Model exists in silos. There are gaps across the research themes that can be a subject of detailed investigation. There is a strong need to synergize the findings across different research themes. The paper presents the need for a holistic and a synthesis based approach in the knowledge assimilation mechanism.

Successful e-commerce websites must possess high traffic and conversion rate. A high conversion rate must be realized through the usability of website. In this study, what is its usability performance and whether the usability conformed to the customers’ expectations of the present e-commerce websites were discussed. This research discovered the website usability across three types of the e-commerce websites: shopping, financial, and tourism services. A Web-based survey questionnaire was assembled, based on previously research instruments for measuring three parameters of usability – content, navigation and interactivity. Two hundred and seventy respondents used the survey questionnaire to rate 12 popular websites on three types of the e-commerce websites. The finding revealed that the financial services sites are the lowest rated and online shopping and tourism services sites could serve as models for Website professionals. The performances of content, navigation and interactivity were positively related to the usability of the websites.

This paper presents literature review that is currently conducted to look into e-Business development with the emergence of cloud computing concept. The discussions in this paper includes the e-Business development, opportunities and challenges, and how the cloud computing is perceived in the e-Business context. This paper also presents the methodology that will be used to gather data to see how far the cloud computing has influenced e-Business for SMEs in Malaysia. Outcome from this research will be a set of recommendation for deploying cloud computing in e-Business environment.

The Seamless Integrated Data Pipeline system was proposed to the European Union in order to overcome the information quality shortcomings of the current international supply chain information exchange systems. Next to identification and authorization of stakeholders, secure access control needs to be considered at design time of the new data pipeline system. This challenge is taken up in this paper. First, based on an analysis of the proposed data pipeline concept, access control requirements are being defined. Second, a new multi-level access control model is being designed. The resulting model organizes access control at two levels, namely, at country and at service level, herewith enabling secure information exchange between global stakeholders.

This paper presents a system that allows users to reserve a parking lot by using their smartphones. The aim of this project is to shorten the time required to look for an empty parking lot, and resolve the congestion issue in car park at mall. When the smartphone is connected to the internet, the user is only required to make a reservation by paying the first-hour rate through PayPal. A parking lot will be reserved for the user for an hour. At the same time, a QR-Code will then be generated, and user can enter the car park anytime within the hour by using the QR-Code. Before the user exits the car park, the user only required to pay the balance through PayPal. This reduces the hassle of queuing up for in front the payment machine. After the payment, a new QR-Code will then be generated, and the user will exit the car park by using this new QR-Code.

In July 2010, the Korean government announced a plan to implement smart work centers to resolve low birth rate, low productivity and social costs of the urban traffic jams. This empirical study was conducted to find factors affecting the Smart Work Center use. Based on the IS Success Model, ‘operation Infra Quality’ and ‘User Satisfaction’ have positive impact on the Smart Work Center use. ‘System Infra Quality’ and ‘IT Infra Quality’ have positive impact on the ‘User Satisfaction’. Consequently ‘System Infra Quality’ and ‘IT Infra Quality’ have positive impact on the Smart Work Center use indirectly. Also ‘Job fit’ and ‘Social Influence’ has positive impact on the Smart Work Center use.

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a powerful technique in the time-series similarity search. However, its performance on large-scale data is unsatisfactory because of its high computational cost. Although many methods have been proposed to alleviate this, they are mostly in- direct methods, i.e., they do not improve the DTW algorithm itself. In this paper, we propose to incorporate the Ordered Graph Search (OGS) and the lower bound for DTW into an improved DTW algorithm and apply it on time series data. Extensive experiments show that the improved DTW algorithm is faster than the original dynamic programming based algorithm on multi-dimensional time series data. It is also especially useful in the post-processing stage of searching in large time series data based on DTW distance.

This article analyzes the operators of the possibility of cooperation with the smart home industry, and proposes a cooperation model of a smart home industry and operators from the perspective of game theory. Smart home industry, as a very key part of the Internet of Things, has good prospects for development. But marketing as well as the pace of development in the current market is very difficult. Operators under the impact of the various parties, as the relative strength of the party are not as a simple pipeline supplier, but more concerned about the development and integration of the whole industry chain. In such situations, the cooperation between operators and smart home industry will be of concern. This paper argues that the cooperation between operators and smart home industry is inevitable road. Smart home enterprises need to cooperate together with the operators to jointly promote the development of smart home industry. A way of achieving the combination of smart home industry and the operators is uniting the mobile network with “fixed network” so as to develop the huge potential industry.

Online shopping enables consumers to search for information and purchase products or services through direct interaction with online store. This study aims to examine the correlation of Internet marketing environment, product characteristics, familiarity and confidence, and promotional offers with consumer online shopping behaviour. Two-hundred questionnaires were distributed to the respondents, who are students and staff at a public university in the Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia, following simple random sampling as a means of data collection. Correlation analysis was used as a statistical measure to determine the strength of the relationship between one dependent variable and a series of other independent variables. Results revealed that familiarity and confidence was found to greatly correlated with consumer online shopping behaviour followed by promotional offers. A clear understanding of consumer online shopping behaviour can help marketing managers predict the online shopping rate and evaluate the future growth of online commerce.

This study aims to examine the effect of social needs, social influences and convenience of smartphone on students’ dependency on smartphones. A total of 200 completed and usable questionnaires were received from the respondents which comprises of students from one of the public higher institution in Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia by utilizing simple random sampling method. Results via the analysis of structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that all proposed hypotheses were supported. Social needs were found to be the strongest effect. Students heavily and actively use smartphone to stay connected with friends and family through social networking web sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and etc. Smartphone allow them to stay connected with those they care about. Based on the findings, the implications are discussed in the paper and directions for future research are also highlighted.