Ἐγκράτεια : politique, morale, subjectivation (IVe siècle av. J.-C.)

Generating Argument at ive J ent eterminers

This paper presents a procedure to generate judgment determiners, e.g., many, few. Although such determiners carry very little objective information, they are extensively used in everyday language. The paper presents a precise characterization of a class of such determiners using three semantic tests. A conceptual representation for sets is then derived from this characterization which can serv...

Éditorial: Informatique et politique

Morale hazard

We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, wage contracts both provide incentives and affect worker morale, by revealing private information of the firm about worker skills. We provide conditions for the non-differentiation wage policy to be profit-maxim...

Éditorial: Informatique & politique

Mismanagemenf turning evaluation program from morale booster to morale buster

" I t is b e c o m i n g inc reas ing ly c l e a r t h a t t he adm i n i s t r a t i o n is unab le to a c t e ^ e c t i v e l y in imp l e m e n t i n g th is p r o g r a m , " t he union p r e s i d e n t sa id . " W h a t h a s r e su l t ed is confus ion in m a n y work loca t ions and even chaos in o the r s . We a r e u rg ing any e m p l o y e e s who fee l t h a t t hey w e r e un fa i...