This study investigates an approach of knowledge discovery and data mining in insufficient databases. An application of Computational Taxonomy analysis demonstrates that the approach is effective in such a data mining process. The approach is characterized by the use ot…

Performance of parallel programs is one of the reasons of their development. The process of designing and programming a parallel application is a very hard task that requires the necessary knowledge for the detection of performance bottlenecks, and the corresponding…

Classical methods for representing and reasoning with knowledge rely on the assumption that the available information is complete, certain and consistent. In real-world problems this is usually not the case, and Al has long dealt with the issue of finding…

The notion of rational agency was proposed by Russell [9] as an alternative characterization of intelligence agency. Loosely speaking, an agent is said to be rational if it perfomns the right actions according to the information it possesses and the…

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar a percepção ambiental dos moradores do bairro Jardim Tangará, localizado na porção leste do município de São Carlos, São Paulo. Dentre os aspectos socioambientais abordados, deu-se ênfase á nascente localizada no bairro. Realizou-se…

(3) the richness pattern is independent of the endemism pattern because the richest areas are the tropical humid lowlands, and (5) Mexico presents several insular intracontinental patterns, which are the product of the disjunct and heterogeneus distribution of xeric and…

Paralela a la conquista del poder efectuada por Mussolini surgieron en España fasci impulsados por la élite de la colonia emigrada. Autoproclamados como los únicos representantes de la italianità su éxito dependió de la actitud mostrada por las autoridades españolas,…

La planification de la politique économique au Brésil a été proposée dans les années 1950 avec le but de promouvoir l'indépendance et le développement économique du pays. Cette planification serait réalisée grâce à l'intervention de l'État par le contrôle de…

O processo geral de descoberta de conhecimento em banco de dados é composto por diversas etapas, destacando-se a de Mineração de Dados (MD). As principais tarefas de MD são associação, agrupamento e descoberta de regras de classificação. A tarefa de…

The purpose of this study was to assess the pedagogical equivalence, as determined by knowledge gains, and the pedagogical effectiveness of certain components in a video-driven multimedia, web-based professional development training program as compared to a traditional, face-to-face program under…