Abstract To investigate delegation decisions within organizations, we develop a principal-agent model in which the principal can only informally delegate authority to agent and parties openly disagree with each other sense of differing prior beliefs about optimal course action. Our analysis shows that degree disagreement determines what kind policy commit this, turn, alters agent’s effort for i...

I argue against group agent realism, or the view that groups have irreducible mental states. If agents states, as realists assume, then best realist explanation of corporate features only basic states with at most one motivational function each. But does not feature So lack How so? defend conditional an argument from disagreement. On cognitivist approaches to desire, desires both motivate and r...

Among Quine’s main concerns in his “On What There Is”, there was that of solving a problem of expressibility for ontological denials. His proposed solution to such a problem was, in a purely Carnapian vein, a shift of attention to the semantic features of ontological claims – what Quine called the strategy of “semantic ascent”. Quine’s relevant assumption is that talk about language is much les...

In this paper, we tackle the tracking problem from a fusion angle and propose a disagreement-based approach. While most existing fusion-based tracking algorithms work on different features or parts, our approach can be built on top of nearly any existing tracking systems by exploiting their disagreements. In contrast to assuming multi-view features or different training samples, we utilize exis...

The focus of this paper is on how events can be detected & extracted from natural language text, and how those are represented for use on the semantic web. We draw an inspiration from the similarity between crowdsourcing approaches for tagging and text annotation task for ground truth of events. Thus, we propose a novel approach that harnesses the disagreement between the human annotators by de...