Due to the change in attitudes and lifestyles, people expect to find new partners and friends via various ways now-a-days. Online dating networks create a network for people to meet each other and allow making contact with different objectives of developing a personal, romantic or sexual...

This paper outlines the details of an innovative postgraduate program, Master of Business (ERP), incorporating SAP R/3 System and related products that was introduced at the University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 1999. The program aims to develop integrative enterprise skills in a...

Gains in productivity through translation memory-based text reuse are often offset by time spent in dealing with formatting glitches. This affects all players in the localisation industry, from the end client to the language vendor to the freelance translator. However, as a non-core activity for...

This paper addresses the following problem: given two or more business process models, create a process model that is the union of the process models given as input. In other words, the behavior of the produced process model should encompass that of the input models. The paper describes an...

As massively multiplayer online games gain popularity, there has been a concomitant increase in their size and complexity, both technically and in terms of player usage. Quality assurance for such games takes up a major component of the development budget due to the painstaking work required to...

Japanese information systems (IS) research and the activities and foci of Japanese IS academic societies remain relatively unknown outside of Japan. A number of obstacles including structural and linguistic factors inhibit the smooth transfer and exchange of knowledge between Japanese IS...

The primary purpose of this research was to study the impact of culture on the implementation of a Western-developed ERP system (SAP) in an Asian environment from the local Chinese informants perspective. Unlike the majority of IS cultural research into ERP implementation, this study used a...

Today, many hospitals seek to adopt the latest and most sophisticated technologies in order to raise the service quality and users' satisfaction. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) had a substantial impact on the health sector and has enhanced the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare...

The article seeks to evaluate the Academic and Student Administration System (ASAS) at the University of Botswana (UB) in order to determine whether the system was performing successfully in its post-implementation phase. It was guided by the Delone and Mclean IS success evaluation model. Three...

Researchers have worked on-finding e-commerce recommender systems evaluation methods that contribute to an optimal solution. However, existing evaluations methods lack the assessment of user-centric factors such as buying decisions, user experience and user interactions resulting in less than...