Although biographical data (biodata) has been predictive of turnover, there is no established scale designed specifically to measure attrition or quitting behaviors. The purpose of this study is to develop and test the structure of a biodata scale of quitting behaviors developed with construct-oriented scale construction. Using a large community sample (N = 702) covering different geographical ...

Behavior-based robot programs are designed by splitting the overall robot decision making process among concurrent processes, each of them being in charge of a well defined simple goal-oriented behavior. However, the combination of simple behaviors into more complex ones often incur global interactions that cannot be debugged by just considering individual behaviors. The normal way of dealing w...

Today’s complex information systems can be used to varying degrees by individuals. Information system infusion captures the degree to which the system is used deeply, or to its fullest extent, for improving organizational and individual performance. Theory suggests that infusion at the individual level depends on user adaptation to an information system; however, relationship between types of u...

Applications using transaction oriented communication have special requirements. Packet forwarding of a client’s request and a server’s response should be as fast as possible and also highly reliable. This implies employment of a communication service supplying minimal end-toend delay and minimal packet loss. Currently defined per-hop forwarding behaviors (PHBs) and per-domain behaviors (PDBs) ...

The Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) combines behaviors and states of software agent with code, so it would be somewhat difficult and complex for nonprogrammers who are knowledge experts such as salesman or social workers. In this research, we propose an FSDL which describes agent’s behaviors and reduces the difficulty and system complexity when a knowledge expert uses agent technique. FSDL sup...

Explicitly coercive measures are sometimes necessary in the care and treatment of psychiatric patients. The author describes how use of such measures is not antithetical to patient-centered, recovery-oriented practice either in inpatient or outpatient settings. Citing a definition widely used by advocates to describe the overarching goal of recovery--"a full, meaningful, and self-determined lif...

Web Services approach is an appropriate paradigm for open large-scale environment applications, especially eMarketplaces. Multi-Agent system is an appropriate construction methodology for such services to realize their complex interaction and coordination behaviors. In this view, an e-Marketplace is proposed to be modeled as a collaborative integration environment with service-oriented agents (...

As an emerging area considering behavioral aspects of decision making, target-oriented decision model lies in the philosophical root of bounded rationality as well as represents the S-shaped value function. This paper deals with multi-attribute decision analysis from target-oriented viewpoint. First, the basic (random) target-oriented decision model is extended to involve three types of target ...

Dynamic software adaptability is one of the central features leveraged by autonomic computing. However, developing software that changes its behavior at run time adapting to the operational conditions is a challenging task. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature to attack this problem at different and complementary abstraction levels: software architecture, middleware, and prog...

This study explores trust development and maintenance in temporary, work-oriented virtual teams, and examines the effect of trust on communication and cohesiveness. Results suggest that for work-oriented virtual teams formed on a temporary basis, members swiftly develop calculus-based trust in order to assess the outcomes and costs of maintaining team relationships. Members also rely on prior k...