What Is Grounded Theory Good For?

What is a good action theory?

Consistency check has been the only criterion for theory evaluation in logic-based approaches to reasoning about actions. This work goes beyond that and contributes to the metatheory of actions by investigating what other properties a good domain description in reasoning about actions should have. We state some metatheoretical postulates concerning this sore spot. When all postulates are satisf...

What is the difference between grounded theory and phenomenology?

What is Modularity Good For?

We compare three types of dual-route associative architectures for learning the English past tense problem. Identical computational resources are used in (1) a pre-specified modular architecture, with a rule mechanism and an exception mechanism; (2) an architecture with two mechanisms that demonstrate emergent specialization of function for regular and exception verbs; and (3) a redundant syste...

SOAP: What Is It and What Is It Good For?

Patrick Thompson is Director of Architecture at Rogue Wave Software, where he has been involved with SOAP bridging products and in exploring the uses of SOAP and XML protocols for the past year and a half. He is on the W3C XML Protocols working group and is involved in the OMG ́s CORBA/SOAP mapping work. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and is coauthor of the popular book The Elements...

What is Labour-Market Flexibility? What is it Good for?

THE EARLIEST KEYNES LECTURES tended to be on Keynesian subjects, either Keynes himself or the parts of economics on which he was a major influence. More recently that habit of piety has weakened or disappeared. I intend to go back to it, but not in the sense that I will be concerned with what Keynes or later Keynesians thought about this or that. The connection is more abstract. The macroeconom...