We distinguish between a collective’s goal and a collective goal, concentrating on the latter. Its relations to collective intention and action are spelled out. It is shown how a given goal, when additional predicates are ascribed to it, yields collective goals of increasing complexity. Our main task is to answer the question, “What makes a goal collective?” To this end, we will deal with the n...

This paper delves into the state of the art in technology acceptance research at the individual level in Malaysia and makes suggestion into the future researches that can be undertaken to extend the frontiers of research of technology acceptance at the individual level. Several popular models used to predict technology acceptance are also discussed before exploring the myriad of research done o...

In this paper I develop a strategy for representing epistemic states and epistemic changes that seeks to be sensitive to the difference between voluntary and involuntary aspects of our epistemic life, as well as to the role of pragmatic factors in epistemology. The model relies on a particular understanding of the distinction between full belief and acceptance, which makes room for the idea tha...

The behaviors of heavy vehicles drivers in mandatory and discretionary lane changes are analyzed in this paper. 640 mandatory and 2,035 discretionary lane change events were extracted from a naturalistic driving database. Variations in gap acceptance and lane change duration were investigated. Statistical analysis showed that mandatory lane changes are more aggressive in gap acceptance and lane...

Despite the rapid evolution of Web technologies and development tools and skills, most Web sites fail (to varying degrees) to achieve their true business goals. This is at least partially due to our inability to effectively define Web acceptance criteria (from both a client perspective and a developers perspective). These criteria cover those characteristics that the final system must possess, ...

CDMA cellular mobile systems find widespread acceptance in remote cities with large geographical areas to cover. However, temporal changes of user density due to formation of congregated population centers (called hot spots) can seriously undermine the system design goals. This paper investigates the extent of inter-cell interference arising from these hot spots, and its influence on the overal...