Affect and reliance on affect in making decisions under risk (affect heuristic) are important and distinct concepts that have received virtually no attention in the study of IS/ecommerce risk assessment. Affect in response to a risky stimulus is automatic and precedes all judgments/decisions....

In this paper, we argue that ambiguity, that is people's inability to judge likelihood of risk, is a significant contributor to aversion to spyware risk. Since no objective or authoritative estimates of risk likelihood are available, but users still make decision, it must be the case that user's...

Given the increasing competition in the software industry and the critical consequences of software errors, it has become important to develop methods for early forecasting of software quality. This research utilized a novel forecasting approach based on recent work in using prediction markets,...