In service-oriented systems, negotiating service level agreements (SLAs) occupies a central role in the service usage cycle. It is during negotiations that parties are brought together in an interactive mechanism determined by the negotiation protocols. The choice and description of negotiation protocol determines the scope of information flow which in turn influences convergence upon an agreem...

This study aims to examine the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude and subscribers’ intention towards using 3G mobile services. Cross sectional data were collected through a survey and analysed by means of factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Out of 150 questionnaires only 100 were usable. Findings show that Perceived ...

One strategy that has been employed to ease the human-machine service interaction has been to shift the burden of understanding the operation and/or capabilities of a machine service away from the user and onto the programmer. By devising software interfaces that adaptively respond to signals from the user, the programmer can embed program facilities that can “learn,” identifying limitations in...

This study aims to understand the driving factors that influence the attitudes and behavioral intention to adopt mobile ticketing services, a new mobile Internet service in Taiwan applying the Theory of Planned Behavior. Empirical findings suggest that the intention to adopt the mobile ticketing service is significantly affected by the attitude towards the service, as well as the selfefficacy a...

UNLABELLED Researchers, as well as the lay public and the popular press, have become increasingly concerned about the lack of reproducibility of research findings. Despite this concern, research has shown that replications of previously published work comprise a very small proportion of published studies. Moreover, there are fewer published direct replications of research studies by independent...