In this paper three perspectives are presented on defining the general notion of technical artifacts in formal ontologies. These perspectives share two intuitions: that technical artifacts are objects that exist by human intervention; and that technical artifacts are to be contrasted to natural entities. Yet the perspectives are different in the way they spell out these intuitions: the relevant...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a value-based framework for the consumer e-trustbuilding process.Design/methodology/approach – The data collection procedure consisted of two steps. The firstwas a brief questionnaire measuring potential informants’ personal values. From this pool of potentialinformants, 30 were recruited for the interviews: five securityand ...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2000) in gas processing plants of National Iranian Gas Company using balanced scorecard approach. More specifically, we chose the balanced scorecard framework to examine five well-known gas processing plants in National Iranian Gas Company from four different perspectives in order...

This paper presents an innovative approach to online fruition of theater performances. Web applications like traditional viewers are already available for the wide audience of Internet users. Our proposal aims at adding both interactivity and multi-layer fruition, and a way to manipulate and create new media. The premise to reach these goals is digitizing a number of heterogeneous materials in ...

Different software development methodologies exist. Choosing the methodology that best fits a software project depends on several factors. One important factor is how risky the project is. Another factor is the degree to which each methodology supports risk management. Indeed, the literature is rich in such studies that aim at comparing the currently available software development process model...

Because individual differences in emotion regulation are associated with risk for childhood behavioral problems, multidisciplinary investigation of the genetic and neural underpinnings of emotion regulation should be a research priority. Here, we summarize research findings from three independent laboratories to demonstrate the ways in which a variety of developmental human neuroscience-based a...

For drawing higher-level perspectives in group activities, resolving conflicts among group members is crucial. We investigated group activities with four members wherein one member had a different perspective from the other three. Four members engaged in a rule discovery task in which they were required to unify conflicts for the solution. Through two experiments, we investigated two hypotheses...