This study analyzes consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for wind generated energy and examines how attitudes, deontological evaluation, and teleological evaluation affect WTP. Sparks and Pan (2009) suggest that future judgment research will benefit from integration between theories of ethical decision making and theories of social cognition. This paper utilizes Hunt and Vitell’s (1986) ethical ...

We examine the use of teleological metareasoning for self-adaptation in game-playing software agents. The goal of our work is to develop an interactive environment in which the game designer generates requirements for a new version of a game, and the legacy software agents from previous versions of the game adapt themselves to the new game requirements in cooperation with the human designer, wh...

This paper presents a teleological process theory of software design in organizations. The proposed theory is compared to the Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) Framework – a leading process theory of engineering design proposed by John Gero. A positivist, multiple case study methodology to empirically compare the veracity and predictive power of the two theories described. Results from a pilo...