Customer satisfaction and loyalty on mobile information services have been investigated in academic literature. However, there are not many researches on the factors with a specific focus on multiple utilitarian services on a crossnational basis. This research examines the antecedents of customer satisfaction and loyalty through a survey of young adult mobile users in Japan and US, respectively...

The (generalized) sequential two-system ("default interventionist") model of utilitarian moral judgment predicts that utilitarian responses often arise from a system-two correction of system-one deontological intuitions. Response-time (RT) results that seem to support this model are usually explained by the fact that low-probability responses have longer RTs. Following earlier results, we predi...

Utilitarian versus deontological inclinations have been studied extensively in the field of moral psychology. However, the field has been lacking a thorough psychometric evaluation of the most commonly used measures. In this paper, we examine the factorial structure of an often used set of 12 moral dilemmas purportedly measuring utilitarian/deontological moral inclinations. We ran three differe...

The emergence of distributed clouds opens up new research challenges for service deployment. Composite services consist of multiple components, potentially located in different geographical locations, which need to be interconnected and invoked in the correct order according to the overall service work-flow. The placement of composite services over distributed cloud node locations raises new ch...

Mobile applications (apps) have permeated every walk of our life. This has motivated many companies to jump onto the «mobile wave» and develop specific apps for their products and services. With the growing number of apps, it has become ever more difficult for companies to arrest attention and to motivate users to continuously use the installed apps. A strategy that frequently is followed is to...

We consider a setting in which a single divisible good (“cake”) needs to be dividedbetween n players, each with a possibly different valuation function over pieces of thecake. For this setting, we address the problem of finding divisions that maximize thesocial welfare, focusing on divisions where each player needs to get one contiguouspiece of the cake. We show that for both th...