Why deontologists should reject agent-relative value and embrace agent-relative accountability

Why liberals should embrace managed care.

Accountability and Principal-Agent Models∗

Principal-agent theory encapsulates a tradition of rational choice modeling, in which some actor(s) (the principal(s)) uses whatever actions are available, to provide incentives for some other actor(s) (the agent(s)) to make decisions that the principal most prefers. Because principal-agent theory focuses on the responsiveness of the agents decisions to the principal’s goals, and how this respo...

What Is an Agent and Why Should I Care?

A range of agent implementation technologies are reviewed according to five user-based criteria and via a comparison with object-oriented programming. The comparison with OO shows that some parts of object technology are a candidate implementation technique for some parts of agent systems. However, many other non-object-based implementation techniques may be just as useful. Also, for agents wit...

The relative and absolute stereochemistry of the antifungal agent preussin.

Structure 1 was reported for a novel antifungal agent, L-657,398, isolated from fermentations of Aspergillus ochraceusP However, the relative and absolute stereochemistry of this compound were not reported. We have isolated a compound with the same structure (exclusive of stereochemistry) from fermentations of Preussia sp., by extraction of the mycelial cake with methanol and purification of th...

Relative and absolute configuration of antitumor agent SW-163D.

Our interest on engineering non-ribosomal synthetase responsible for SW-163 biosynthesis prompted us to determine the relative and absolute configuration of antitumor cyclic depsipeptide SW-163s. We first isolated and identified SW-163 homologs D, F and G as known compounds UK-63598, UK-65662 and UK-63052, respectively. Both enantiomers of the unusual constitutive amino acid, N-methylnorcoromic...