Research data collected from single respondents may raise concerns regarding common method variance (CMV), which is believed to threaten the validity of findings. The primary concern that CMV can inflate substantive relationships, such they appear statistically significant when are not. Thus, understanding nature critical, especially one considers popularity—and sometimes necessity—of using sel...

[Context and motivation] It is desirable that requirement engineering methods are reliable, that is, that methods can be repeated with the same results. Risk assessments methods, however, often have low reliability when they identify risk mitigations for a system based on expert judgement. [Question/problem] Our goal is to assess the reliability of an availability risk assessment method for tel...

How humans behave in repeated strategic interactions, how they learn, their decisions adapt, and decision-making evolves is a topic of fundamental interest behavioral economics game theory [...]

A strict evaluation of cause and effect has for long been regarded to require the tools of experimental design. The main approach is to constitute two or more subject groups by randomization or equating procedures, whereupon one or more groups will be manipulated by the experimenter, whilst one groups is left unmanipulated and thus serves as a control group. There are numerous experimental desi...

One of the most important tasks in nonlinear dynamics is the determination of bifurcation sets of various dynamical systems. If the dynamical equations are known, bifurcation points in parameter space can be detected by solving some specific fixed point equations. Using suitable continuation algorithms these bifurcation points can be traced in parameter space in order to compute bifurcation cur...

Ladies and Gentlemen of Sigma Xi: I look upon it as a special honor to be invited to address you, not alone because of your traditions of scholarship and scientific attainment, but in particular because you are a body of men and women who desire to increase natural knowledge by means of experiment. I am in sympathy with those who believe this to be the highest of human aims, and, when taken col...