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DEON
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Normative Aspect of Signalling Conventions
The paper outlines an approach to the formal representation of signalling conventions, emphasising the prominent role played therein by a particular type of normative modality. It ...
Andrew J. I. Jones, Steven O. Kimbrough
CAS
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Why Model?
This lecture treats some enduring misconceptions about modeling. One of these is that the goal is always prediction. The lecture distinguishes between explanation and prediction a...
S. E. van der Leeuw
SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society
Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using me...
Mark Coeckelbergh
ARGMAS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Argumentation-Based Information Exchange in Prediction Markets
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how argumentation processes among a group of agents may affect the outcome of group judgments. In particular we will focus on ...
Santiago Ontañón, Enric Plaza
MODELS
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Bidirectional Model Transformations in QVT: Semantic Issues and Open Questions
Abstract. We consider the OMG’s Queries, Views and Transformations (QVT) standard as applied to the specification of bidirectional transformations between models. We discuss wha...
Perdita Stevens