Information systems consist of many low-level components, such as source code, functioning together as a unified whole. However, higher-level requirements, such as the preferences of users concerning quality intentions of the system, are often under-documented, if documented at all. Consequently it can be highly important to elicit the intentions underlying the system for driving or justifying ...

this research offers a comprehensive model to investigate the relationships between services quality, hedonic affect, perceived value and behavioral intentions. the purpose of this study is to build a broader understanding of the determinants of customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions throughout the restaurant services by incorporating the perceptions of hedonic affect in service delive...

In Social networks, users need a proper estimation of trust in others to be able to initialize reliable relationships. Some trust evaluation mechanisms have been offered, which use direct ratings to calculate or propagate trust values. However, in some web-based social networks where users only have binary relationships, there is no direct rating available. Therefore, a new method is required t...

organizational spirituality is a new paradigm that has emerged in organizational behavior district and finds very advocates. spirituality in workplace is referred to an individual attempts for seeking purpose in working life, sense of solidarity with coworkers and alignment with organization's mission and values. spirituality could involve religion viewpoint or not, however, historically i...

Introduction: Internal radiation dosimetry is important from a radiation protection point of view and can help to optimize the radiation dose delivered to the workers, public, and patients. It has a rather simple protocol but needs a large amount of data. Therefore, it is difficult to do on a routine basis. The use of computer programs makes internal radiation dosimetry simpler...

the scholars of the principles of the islamic jurisprudence are divided the intentions of god in islamic figh to universal intentions and particular intentions. and the universal intentions are divided to necessaries and needs and goods. the necessaries are observation of religion and spirit and intellect and tradition and property. the author tries to manifest the decreases of this theses by a...

We propose a new human-robot interaction that anthropomorphizes a target common object using attachable humanoid parts. The user perceives the target to have its own intentions and body image through the attached body parts. We experimented with how users accepted the intentions and imaginary body image of a common object with humanoid parts. We also compared this human-robot interaction with t...

The growing need for content customization in websites has fostered the development of systems which try to identify the user’s navigation patterns. These may be, normally, identified by means of log file analysis. However, this solution does not identify the semantic intention behind user’s navigation. This paper provides an approach to incorporating semantic knowledge to the process of identi...

Analysis of naturally occurring information-seeking dialogues indicates that they usually consist of a number of distinct discourse segments, such as a greeting segment, a request issued by a user, an optional clariication segment, a transfer of information segment, and a nal closing segment. The clariication interaction is often initiated by the information provider, and it may be due to one o...