This paper addresses the problem of contour line extraction from scanned topographic maps in poor condition. A novel method is developed, using knowledge of cartography and graphics to extract contours by removing other layers which overlay the contours, and reconstructing…

Presentation of a web collection platform designed to relate and unify information available on different standard web sources with a view to creating a userbrowseable thematic repository. The platform will be used at the Intellectual Creation Diffusion Service combined with…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Genomic and darwinian medicine deal with the application of hereditary and evolutionary principles for the understanding of health and disease. The progress in molecular and bioinformatic knowledge is making possible through a holistic
approach to biological phenomena and one aspect…

In this work we analyze the problem of knowledge representation in a collaborative multi-agent system where agents can obtain new information from others through communication. Namely, we analyze several approaches of belief revision in multi-agent systems. We will describe different…

Processes of spatial mobility among the Mbya are of interest in anthropological and ethnobiological studies, as these processes are related to transformations in the landscape and the environment. Despite this, ethnographic literature usually focuses itself on the mobility of Guaraní…

La conmemoración del septuagésimo aniversario de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología nos brinda la oportunidad de sintetizar las distintas corrientes que predominaron en la disciplina del Folklore. El itinerario propuesto muestra cómo se conformó este campo del conocimiento mediante los…

This paper presents a proposal for an architecture that integrates knowledge discovery systems (automatic acquisition) and knowledge based systems (experts systems). This work formulates considerations over the viability of the implementation of this architecture according to the advance of the…

Vision based applications are present anywhere. A special market is industry, allowing to improve product quality and to reduce manufacturing costs. The vision systems applied to industries are known as machine vision systems. These systems must meet time constraints to…