We say that a mechanism is harmless if no student can ever misreport his preferences so that he does not hurt but someone else. We consider a large class of rules which includes the Boston, the agent-proposing deferred acceptance, and the school-proposing deferred acceptance mechanisms (sDA). In this large class, the sDA happens to the unique harmless mechanism. We next provide two axiomatic ch...

The use of outsourcing is expanding rapidly. This chapter empirically tests a model of application development outsourcing acceptance based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). TAM-suggested perceived usefulness and ease of use mediate the effects of other variables on users’ attitudes towards a technology. The model tested in this chapter suggests that perceived usefulness and ease of use...

The subject of present paper is to discuss the layout of conception referred to the use of artificial intelligence methods (neural networks) for prior appraisal of project proposals to be submitted by Polish enterprises to European Union in order to get financial assistance for investments from the EU structural funds and the state budget. The experiments are limited to prior appraisal of the p...

background emotion regulation is a major and important incentive for substance abuse; in fact, substance abusers associate their abuse with the substance’s soothing nature. emotion regulation can be defined as the process, which enables individuals to regulate experiences and express emotions. objectives the goal of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitmen...

A description of the newest Romanian eHealth project is presented. The SIUI project - Integrated Unique Information System of the National Health Insurance House was tested on three pilot units in 2007 and generalized in 2008, becoming mandatory for all healthcare units in 2009. The implementation process revealed some difficulties and the user acceptance is still low. A couple of supporting me...

One of the major challenges regarding energy transition is to create active support towards renewable installations on a local level. The CROWDTHERMAL project presents practical approaches for involving stakeholders in different measures order develop acceptable solutions. Based technical evidence and data from concrete case studies, shows ways how community funding can increase social acceptan...

Received: 12 June 2006 Revised: 10 May 2007 Accepted: 22 July 2007 Abstract Although there is widespread agreement that leadership has important effects on information technology (IT) acceptance and use, relatively little empirical research to date has explored this phenomenon in detail. This paper integrates the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with charismatic leader...

Our proposed research project aims at providing knowledge on how cultural misfits can be identified and managed throughout IS implementations. More precisely, our study aims at studying the role of cultural intelligence in managing ERP implementation, according to three analysis levels: national, organizational and local. From this perspective, we posit that ERP acceptance/resistance cannot be ...