Volume 7, Issue 4-5

Special Issue in Advances in e-Technology and e-Services

Guest Editors:
Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taipe
Jiming Liu, Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Table of Contents

Guest Editors: Special Issue in Advances in e-Technology and e-Services 335 - 336
Soe-Tsyr Yuan and Jiming Liu

Propagation Models for Trust and Distrust in Social Networks 337 - 358
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler and Georg Lausen


Improving Customer Retention in E-Commerce through a Secure and Privacy-Enhanced Loyalty System 359 - 370
Matthias Enzmann and Markus Schneider

e-coupons: An Efficient, Secure and Delegable Micro-Payment System 371 - 389
Vishwas Patil and R. K. Shyamasundar


Combining Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Automated Negotiations 391 - 404
Jen-Hsiang Chen, Kuo-Ming Chao, Nick Godwin, Von-Wun Soo

The Layer-Seeds Term Clustering Method: Enabling Proactive Situation-Aware Product Recommendations in E-Commerce Dialogues 405 - 419
Libo Chen, Marcello L'Abbate, Ulrich Thiel, Erich J. Neuhold

e-CLV: A Modeling Approach for Customer Lifetime Evaluation in e-Commerce Domains, with an Application and Case Study for Online Auction 421 - 434
Opher Etzion, Amit Fisher, Segev Wasserkrug

Efficient Processing of Continual Range Queries for Location-Aware Mobile Services 435 - 448
Kun-Lung Wu, Shyh-Kwei Chen, Philip S. Yu