Economic losses caused by natural disasters have increased rapidly in recent years. Therefore, learning about natural catastrophe will be helpful for saving life and reducing cost. This study explores the effect of using the interactive electronic book available from Lego Simple Power Machine...

In this paper, we introduce a methodology to be employed for collaborative projects. This methodology, called HORIZON, has been successfully employed in the past for FP6 and FP7 EU projects, but we strongly believe it can be fruitfully employed for H2020 projects as well, guaranteeing quality...

Yield optimization is a challenging topic in electronic circuit design. Methods for Yield optimization based on Montecarlo analysis of a circuit whose behavior is reproduced by simulations usually require too many time expensive simulations to be effective for iterative optimization. In this...

During the recent years human society evolved from the “industrial society age” and transitioned into the “knowledge society age”. This means that knowledge media support migrated from “pen and paper” to computer-based Information Systems. Due to this fact Ergonomics has assumed an...

In social science, the role of stakeholders is increasing in the development and use of simulation models. Their participation in the design of agent-based models (ABMs) has widely been considered as an efficient solution to the validation of this particular type of model. Traditionally,...

Bayesian learning provides the core concept of processing noisy information. In standard Bayesian frameworks, assessing the price impact of information requires perfect knowledge of news' precision. In practice, however, precision is rarely dis- closed. Therefore, we extend standard Bayesian...

This paper analyzes the term structure of interest rates in an exchange-only Lucas (Econometrica 46:1429–1445, <CitationRef CitationID="CR32">1978</CitationRef>) economy where consumers learn about a stochastic growth rate through observations of the endowment process and an external public signal. We allow for deluded consumers, who...</citationref>

Overall, IS research provides powerful tools that allow understanding individual acceptance and use of systems. However, researchers are increasingly concerned that it provided very little indications about how user adaptive strategies to IT influence IT adoption and success. Drawing on the...

Credit rationality is that phenomenon whereby the bank sector refuses to grant a loan to individuals or to enterprises even if they are ready to pay the high interest rates demanded by the bank. This refusal to grant a loan is as such, not explained by interest rate but rather by other factors...

Based on a sample of 946 German insurance intermediaries, the factors that affect the quality of the information services provided by them are studied using OLS-estimations. Applying a search theoretical approach, we analyze the impact of supply and demand side variables on service quality....