Category: Computational Social Science
Exploring the Interactions by Virtual Characters for Interconnectedness Communication
Peoples communicated on the current social media were mainly to share emotions and experiences in addition to exchanging information. However, the researches for discussing how to design the interface for interconnectedness communication are still very rare till now. It is especially true for this kind of communication based on the use of virtual characters. This …
Exploring Determinants of Voting for the Helpfulness of Online Consumer Product Reviews
With the growth of e-commerce, online product reviews have become a major information source in consumer purchase decisions. However, anyone can easily provide product review in the manner of anonymous, which may lead to the enormous amount of reviews available for consumers and the manipulation behavior of reviews by vendors. Therefore, many website owners have …
Integrating TTF and UTAUT to Explain the Pharmacists’ Adopting Intentions of Telepharmacy
Pharmaceutical care involves the process through which a pharmacist cooperates with a patient and other professionals in implementing a therapeutic plan for the quality use of medicines. However, traditional pharmacy were limited by the shortage of the pharmacists and capabilities of communication, the quality pharmaceutical care was not provided effectively. Previous studies have pointed out …
The Power of Social Machines
The main issue of this paper concerns the future of social machines, analyzed as united system of computers and people. Starting from existing social networks as Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia etc., which have an enormous impact on every aspect of our lives, and thanks to an explosion of new technologies, the opportunity for creation of new …
Makespan Optimization for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows Using Differential Evolution Algorithm
Travelling salesman problem with time windows (TSPTW) is a well-known NP-hard problem in which the objective is to minimize the total travel cost or makespan when visiting each of a set of customers within a given time period. In the literature, TSPTW with the objective of travel cost minimization is extensively studied and a good …