This research explores the repurchase intentions of technology consumers who have experienced malfunctions of purchased products. Identifying the theoretical factors associated with repurchase intentions is essential for testing the applicability of technology adoption research within the context of different product lifecycles. Also, it is an important matter for technology companies in shapin...

Whereas commitments capture how an agent relates with another agent, (private) goals describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Researchers have observed that goals and commitments are complementary, but have not yet developed a combined operational semantics for them. This paper makes steps towards such a semantics by relating the respective lifecycles of goals and...

Specification and testing activities are key phases in embedded systems development lifecycles. In specification-based testing approaches, test cases are solely generated from the system specification. Test cases are often too numerous to be executed exhaustively. In practice, test engineers often select test cases based on informal approximations. We aim at improving these activities by formul...

Filling and submission of electronic forms is a key issue for egovernment, since most electronic services offered in this context include some variant of electronic forms. Insofar, IT experts are placed in the centre of electronic forms services lifecycles, undertaking the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance phases. This practice, however, implies various impediments, such as the n...

The Internet has led to the widespread trade of digital information products. These products exhibit unusual properties such as high fixed costs and near-zero marginal costs. They need to be developed on compressed time frames by spatially and temporally distributed teams, have short lifecycles, and high perishability. This paper addresses the challenges that Ž . information product development...

As the front-end to product and system lifecycles, research and development activities serve as engines of value creation. By nature, though, R&D involves significant uncertainty. As such, it often is viewed as an investment problem, whereby funds are invested in ventures under risk, with the hope of achieving future value. This paper investigates the use of organizational simulation to analyze...

Current trends such as shorter product lifecycles, reduced time-to-market and mass-customization require new paradigms and approaches for production lines and machines. In the long term, production and manufacturing companies will only be able to survive in the face of increasing globalisation if they can react flexibly and quickly to changing customer and market demands. New paradigms and appr...

We consider the problem of relating an agent’s internal state (its beliefs and goals) and its social state (its commitments to and from other agents) as a way to develop a comprehensive account of decision making by agents in a multiagent system. We model this problem in terms of hierarchical task networks (HTNs) and show how HTN planning provides a natural representation and reasoning framewor...

The fundamental challenge in bandit problem is the trade off between exploration and exploitation. To minimize the regret in a long period, an algorithm has to explore by actually choosing seemingly suboptimal arms so as to gather more information about them. The exploration obviously has higher short-term regrets. In recommendation of new items, the lifecycles of these items are remarkably sho...

Due to shorter product lifecycles in combination with increasing product complexity, more and more enterprises are considering using the Digital Factory. One important part of the Digital Factory is the System Layout/System Design process, which includes the engineering of industrial plants – a very complex and cost-intensive domain. In this design science oriented paper, we developed a concept...