In this paper I will present my ideas about how to implement Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory in a game-playing domain, specifically shogi (Japanese chess). The following concepts play an important role in Minsky’s theory: Agents, K-lines, nemes and nomes, frames, difference-engines, censors and suppressors, A-brains and B-brains, connection lines, types of learning and mental managers. I...

This paper tests the effect of managerial (inside) and block-holders (outside) ownership in relation to agency theory in Malaysian business environment. This study tests the agency relationship in different culture and social contact and provides evidence whether agency theory in non-western organizations have equal impact in Asian organizations. Consistent with agency theory and the convergenc...

Challenging the dominant economic agency theory of corporate governance with a new discourse drawn from institutional theory, the paper analyses how management accounting is implicated in corporate governance. The proposed institutional theory of agency links the micro-institutions of the organization that are informed by the practices of management accounting with external institutional player...

Information system (IS) project strategy alignment is considered a solution to overcome the challenges involved in IT strategy implementation and a requirement for the realization of business-IT alignment. Evidently, IS project failure is often not the result of lacking or ineffective project management practices but of inappropriate social interactions among project stakeholders or – in other ...

This paper deals with the economic analysis of hiring forms dedicated to managerial positions. Theoretical frames for corporate governance are based on agency theory. Crucial problems considered within agency theory are: information asymmetry, conflict of interests and supervision (monitoring) of management. Presented analysis covers also remuneration forms and manager’s participation in owners...

Self-help groups benefit clients by linking them to people who have "been there" and are successfully coping with their situations. Mental health/substance use agencies can increase access to evidence-based benefits of self-help groups by engaging them in organizational exchanges. Organizational theories are used to frame beneficial exchanges with self-help groups. Adaptational theory is used t...

This paper combines ideas from recent philosophical work on rational agency and work in artificial intelligence on hierarchical non-linear planners which combine plan generation, execution, and monitoring, to produce a planning theory of rational agency for resource-bounded agents.

With the progression of both climate crisis and financial capitalism, institutional investors play an increasingly central role in fossil fuel companies’ business decisions. Against this backdrop, article investigates underlying rationales Danish pension funds’ climate-related investment decisions analyzed from perspective one dominant finance theories today on governance relationship between c...

Interactive drama has been discussed for a number of years as a new form of AI-based interactive entertainment (Laurel 1986, Bates 1992). While there has been substantial technical progress in building believable agents (Bates, Loyall and Reilly 1992, Blumberg 1996, HayesRoth, van Gent and Huber 1996), and some technical progress in interactive plot (Weyhrauch 1997), no work has yet been comple...