We propose a formal framework to support belief revision based on a cognitive model of credibility and trust. In this framework, the acceptance of information coming from a source depends on (i) the agent’s goals and beliefs about the source’s goals, (ii) the credibility, for the agent, of incoming information, and (iii) the agent’s beliefs about the context in which it operates. This makes it ...

The engineering tension test is widely used to provide basic design information on the strength of materials and as an acceptance test for the specification of materials. In the tension test a specimen is subjected to a continually increasing uniaxial tensile force while simultaneous observations are made of the elongation of the specimen. The parameters, which are used to describe the stress-s...

E-government diffusion is an international phenomenon. This study compares e-government adoption in the U.K. to adoption in the U.S. In particular, this study seeks to determine if the same factors are salient in both countries. Several studies have explored citizen acceptance of e-government services in the U.S. However, few studies have explored this phenomenon in the U.K. To identify the sim...

In Measurement Based Admission Control (MBAC), the decision of accepting or rejecting a new ow is based on measurements of the current tra c situation. Since MBAC relies on measurements, an in-depth understanding of the measurement error and how it is a ected by the underlying tra c is vital for the design of a robust MBAC. In this work, we study how the measurement error impacts the admission ...

The current work is positioned at the point where technology acceptance research and user participation in information systems development research intersect. More specifically, this paper purports to achieve three objectives: (a) explain how technology acceptance determinants can be elicited from users during their participation in the ISD activities, (b) investigate the influence of user part...

purpose: psychological inflexibility and mindfulness represent two important constructs of the new generation of cognitive behavioral therapy that in recent years has attracted attention of many researchers especially in the chronic health problems area. thus, the purpose of the present study was to assess the relationships psychological inflexibility and pain acceptance with resiliency in chro...

Although many studies have explored the consequences of diversity, few have considered how they are affected by social context. This paper develops an institutional framework for understanding how a board’s gender diversity influences its organization’s analyst ratings. I propose that evaluators reward gender-diverse organizations with higher ratings when gender diversity is more institutionali...