Misdevelopments, Pathologies, and Normative Revolutions: Normative Reconstruction as Method of Critical Theory

Toward A Normative Theory of Normative Marketing Theory

We show how different approaches to developing marketing strategies depend on the type of environment a firm faces, where environments are distinguished in terms of their systems properties rather than their content. Particular emphasis is given to turbulent environments in which outcomes are not a priori predictable and are not traceable to individual firm actions and we show that, in these co...

Logical Reconstruction of Normative RDF

In this sketchy paper we introduce a logical reconstruction of the RDF family of languages and the OWL-DL family of languages. We prove that our logical framework is equivalent to the normative W3C definitions of RDF/RDFS and OWL-DL/Lite. The main aim is to have a unified model theoretic semantics for both worlds. As a consequence we get various complexity results and a model theoretic semantic...

Political Philosophy and Racial Injustice: From Normative to Critical Theory

Norms as Mental Objects - From Normative Beliefs to Normative Goals

The study of norms (Ns) is recent but growing concern in the AI field (cf. [MOS92]; [SHO92]) as well within other formal approaches to social action, such as Game Theory (where theories of Ns began to appear long before, cf.[LEW69]; [ULL77]). The normative is an essential dimension of social life. An explicit model of such dimension is crucial for any theory of social action. Notions such as "s...

A Normative Dynamic Model of Regional Economy

    Dynamic model,   regional economy,   innovation.   This paper presents a normative balance mathematical model of regional economy that contains a lot of unspecified parameters which are not defined directly by the data of economic statistics. A method for estimation of the model parameters by application of parallel computations on multi-processors systems is presented. It is determined the...