Emotional interdependence-here defined as partners' emotions being linked to each other across time-is often considered a key characteristic of healthy romantic relationships. But is this actually the case? We conducted an experience-sampling study with 50 couples indicating their feelings 10 times a day for 7 days and modeled emotional interdependence for each couple separately taking a dyadog...

Given the importance of maintaining mutuality in interdependent relationships, the goal of the present research was to determine if interpersonal trust serves as a gauge of partners’ commitment within young adults’ close friendships. It was hypothesized that individuals trust their friends to the degree that their friends are committed to their relationship, and that individuals’ perceptions of...

Most descriptions of service ecosystems, which provide the foundations for value co-creation, focus on resource integration. In contrast, this article emphasizes the actor’s key role as the foundation resource for value co-creation by looking at both societaland individual-focused realms, which include the different social aspects of service ecosystems. Institutional arrangements, positions, sc...

For a class of propositional information logics defined from Pawlak’s information systems, the validity problem is proved to be decidable using a significant variant of the standard filtration technique. Decidability is proved by showing that each logic has the strong finite model property and by bounding the size of the models. The logics in the scope of this paper are characterized by classes...

Development is about change over time. Computational models have provided insights into the developmental changes seen in different cognitive phenomena, including within the domain of word learning. The present paper uses a computational model to investigate the interdependencies between the emergence of different word learning biases. This model allows investigation of how the emergence of the...

Web services evolve over their life time and change their behavior. In our work, we analyze Web service related changes and investigate interdependencies of Web service related changes. We classify changes of Web services for an analysis regarding causes and effects of such changes and utilize a dedicated Web service information model to capture the changes of Web services. We show how to put c...

In order to combat adverse effects of farmland degradation it is necessary for farmers to adopt sustainable land management and conservation strategies like intercropping and conservation tillage. However, efforts to adopt these strategies are very minimal in Ethiopia. In an attempt to address the objectives of examining factors affecting use of intercropping and conservation tillage practices,...

Introduction: The most remarkable development the disability sector went through over the last 10–15 years is the shift in paradigm. The shift from a medical model, a defect model, towards a social model of disability is made. The approach, today, is based on human rights. Full inclusion in society is the overarching objective.

Value-based IT portfolio management requires the consideration of intertemporal interdependencies that may exist among IT projects. Therefore, several papers suggest adopting the real options approach in order to include intertemporal interdependencies within the valuation of IT projects. However, this paper shows that the standard Black-Scholes model, which is often used for valuating real opt...

Probabilistic modeling has been a dominant approach in Machine Learning research. As the field evolves, the problems of interest become increasingly challenging and complex. Making complex decisions in real world problems often involves assigning values to sets of interdependent variables where the expressive dependency structure can influence, or even dictate, what assignments are possible. Ho...