Trust is the key enabling factor for any relationship – commercial or not. Although it has been extensively studied in various disciplines, information systems researchers have focused on trust in the context of short-term transactional exchanges failing thus to address its evolutionary nature and associated complexities. Addressing this limitation we present a model and define a set of testabl...

In this paper we discuss the use of multilayered tagsets for dialogue acts, in the context of dialogue understanding for multiparty meeting recording and retrieval applications. We discuss some desiderata for such tagsets and critically examine some previous proposals. We then define MALTUS, a new tagset based on the ICSI-MR and Switchboard tagsets, which satisfies these requirements. We presen...

Hypermarkets play an increasingly important role in the retail industry in Taiwan. In this study hypermarket customers in Taiwan were surveyed, using switching costs as a variable, to explore the relationship between customer value, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. The results indicate that a customer with a more positive perception of the value of products/services has a more posit...

I develop an extension of the standard New Keynesian model to monetary policy regime switching to study the impact of uncertainty around the future inflation target. First, I fully characterize how the responses of current inflation and output to inflation target uncertainty depend on the monetary policy rule. If monetary policy is passive, inflation may increase far beyond the anticipated incr...

The focus of this paper is the spacecraft formation flying problem where the formation switches successively among multiple shapes, the number and the composition of spacecraft in the group may change among these shapes, and some spacecraft may be faulty. The whole flying process is modeled as a state-varying switched system. The formation stability and fault tolerability are analyzed by using ...

This paper proposes a new method for automatically detecting disfluencies in spontaneous speech – specifically, selfcorrections – that explicitly models repetitions vs. other disfluencies. We show that, in a corpus of Supreme Court oral arguments, repetition disfluencies can be longer and more stutterlike than the short repetitions observed in the Switchboard corpus and suggest that they can be...

This chapter examines the optimal strategies in repeated procurement settings by large power buyers when there are costs to switching suppliers. It is found that buyers can use switching costs to their advantage. When switching costs are high, a buyer may credibly threaten to replace the incumbent supplier with the rivals. The policy implications of this finding for adoption of technology and f...

We study logical properties that concern the preservation of future directed obligations that have not been fulfilled yet. Our starting point is a product of temporal and deontic logics. We investigate some modifications of the semantics of the product in order to satisfy propagation properties, without losing too much of the basic properties of the product. We arrive at a semantics in which we...

This paper is a valuable addition to the study of sensitivity problem in the realization of switching functions with threshold devices. The definitions of threshold sensitivity and weight sensitivity are clearly presented and discussed. Two "basic equations" are derived. These two equations serve as a basis for further investigation. It should be pointed out that in order to have the expression...