Adopting an alternative, yet complimentary view to the traditional, performance-based task/technology fit perspective, we examine the post-adoption of social network sites (SNS) by extending the concept of IT desirability as a central predictor of SNS continuous-use. We conceptualize SNS desirability as reflecting the affective relationship individuals experience with SNS, an approach that emph...

In this paper we study the logic of goals, which are formalized as desires with an utilitarian semantics. In our framework goals have a dual character, because they are constraints on utility functions as well as constructors of these utility functions. The non-monotonic reasoning related to the constructors reeects that goals are used as heuristic approximations of preferences in decision maki...

This study investigates English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ needs and desires with regard to the in-service training courses (ITCs) programs in Marand, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. 21 EFL teachers at both junior (N=10) and senior high schools (N=11) participated in this study. The data concerning the participants’ mentioned needs and desires were gathered by means of a structured i...

T humans have certain desires is a fundamental truth of our nature and a central premise of economic theory. One may disagree about what those desires comprise or whether such desires are morally good or even beneficial for our interests, but one cannot doubt the existence of preferences across choices and alternatives. Economists, rational choice theorists, and many political scientists operat...

Here, we define a framework where defeasible argumentation is used for reasoning about beliefs, desires and intentions. A dialectical filtering process is introduced to obtain a subset of the agent’s desires containing only those that are achievable in the current situation. Different agents types can be defined in the framework affecting the way in which current desires