Duen-Yian Yeh¹, Ching-Hsue Cheng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.² and Chieh-Yi Hsieh²

¹Department of Information Management, Transworld University, Yunlin, Taiwan 640, R.O.C.
²Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Yunlin 640, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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