Behavioral dimensions of customer satisfaction with Vendor-Provided Information Services (VPIS) were investigated and three categories of satisfaction-related behaviors were identified:· (1) discretionary collaborative behaviors, (2) switching behaviors, and (3) contending behaviors. Of these three classes, discretionary collaborative behaviors appear to have the strongest relationship with sat...

As of today, it is unclear whether aspect-oriented modeling can benefit the model-driven development of software product lines. Although some preliminary studies exist at the requirements and implementation level that investigate the interaction of crosscutting behaviors and product-line variabilities, to the best of our knowledge these interactions at the modeling level are not yet investigate...

Title of Document: ANIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND MOVEMENT BEHAVIORS IN RELATION TO RESOURCE DYNAMICS Thomas Mueller, Ph.D., 2008 Directed By: Professor William F. Fagan Department of Biology Animal movements, whether spatially constrained or spread across broad spatial scales, are often motivated by a need for resources. This thesis seeks to explore the role spatial and temporal resource dynamics ma...

Social media use in the workplace may simultaneously contribute to productive behaviors (taskoriented and relationship-building) as well as unproductive behaviors (deviance) at work. Building on channel expansion theory the authors examine the impact of using social media on these organizational behaviors. Using a sample of 220 working individuals they found that intensity of social media use c...

Over the last ten years, gamification has been widely integrated in digital learning environments as a way to increase learners’ motivation. However, little is known about engaged behaviors adopted by learners when using gamified environments. In this paper, we analyze interactions with environment study engagement particular context and identify factors that influence behaviors. We also comple...

A novel and generic approach named as "history-oriented envisioning" is proposed to qualitatively envision all the possible and the sound situations focusing on our intended partial behaviors and actions of an objective system. Some basic notations called a "partial history" and a "partial situation" are introduced as the extensions of the conventional history and its situations representing qu...