Talking Tacitly

Tacitly developed research methods in ICS

Methodology is the study of research methods. This study tests three different methodological approaches to the same material, 93 doctoral theses from NTNU, to learn more about (a) the research methods actually in use in ICS and (b) each methodological approach’s ability to shed light on (a). First, a KWIC analysis of “research method” is done. Despite being both primitive and time consuming, t...

Tacitly consenting to donate one's organs.

The common objection to opt-out systems of postmortal organ procurement is that they allow removal of a deceased person's organs without their actual consent. However, under certain conditions it is possible for 'silence'--failure to register any objection--conventionally and/or legally to count as genuine consent. Prominent conditions are that the consenter should be fully informed about the m...

Learning to Collude Tacitly on Production Levels by Oligopolistic Agents

Classical oligopoly theory has strong analytical foundations but is weak in capturing the operating environment of oligopolists and the available knowledge they have for making decisions, areas in which the management literature is relevant. We use agent-based models to simulate the impact on firm profitability of policies that oligopolists can pursue when setting production levels. We develop ...

D-Theory: Talking about Talking about Trees

Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure which talks about talking about trees; we call this theory Description theory (D-theory). While important issues must be resolved before a complete picture of D-theory emerges (and also before we can build programs which utilize it), we believe t...

Tacitly opting out of organ donation: too presumptuous after all?