Participant sex and a theorized correlate of biological sex, relational interdependence, were tested as relative predictors of the extent to which daters 1) missed and 2) used emotional support to cope when geographically separated from their dating partners. One hundred twenty-four daters completed multiple measures of missing and coping during their colleges' winter breaks. Results from regre...

The authors address locomotion in social dilemmas, examining the influence of social value orientation (prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientations) and partner's strategy (100% cooperation, tit for tat, and 100% noncooperation) on cooperative behavior and locomotion to enhanced or reduced levels of interdependence (tendencies toward approach vs. avoidance). Extending prior researc...

The growing interest in the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) to revolutionize the way in which business conducts trading activities leads to promising research questions concerning the characteristics of EDI-related tasks and electronic partnerships that promote implementation success of EDI. The research model represents that task characteristics and partnership attributes affect imple...

With the increasing prevalence of ubiquitous computing, the software component allocation while meeting various resources constraints and component interdependence is crucial, which poses many kinds of challenges. This paper mainly presents an adaptive component allocation algorithm in ScudWare middleware for ubiquitous computing, which uses dynamic programming and forward checking methods. We ...

abstract This chapter describes the interdependence between locomotion while walking and human input performance in mobile Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI). For the analysis of the interdependence, appropriate performance measures, for example, subjective workload ratings or error rate, have to be applied. The way in which Fitts' law can enhance the analysis is explained. In an experiment with ...

Positive interdependence is the heart of collaborative activities that define collaboration and transform group work into teamwork. To achieve positive interdependence among students, just putting them in group and telling them to work together may not be sufficient. Previously, several types of positive interdependencies have been identified for unsupported group activities. These kinds of int...

We propose and analyze a graph model to study the connectivity of interdependent networks. Two interdependent networks of arbitrary topologies are modeled as two graphs, where every node in one graph is supported by supply nodes in the other graph, and a node fails if all of its supply nodes fail. Such interdependence arises in cyber-physical systems and layered network architectures. We study ...

We extend previous research on digital filter structures and parameter sensitivity to the relationship between the nature of hidden-unit activation function, weight sensitivity and interdependence, and classification learning in neural networks. Weight sensitivity indicates the extent of variations in a network's output when reacting to small perturbations in its weights; whereas weight interde...