Data integration is the process of unifying data sharing some common semantics but are originated from unrelated sources. In our work we consider these sources are autonomous, heterogeneous and they are physically distributed. These three characteristics make the integration task…

El crecimiento exponencial de la información subjetiva en el marco de la Web 2.0 ha creado la necesidad de producir herramientas de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural que sean capaces de analizar y procesar estos datos para aplicaciones concretas. Estas herramientas…

Este artículo reporta el trabajo de investigación realizado en base a datos extraídos de la Encuesta Anual realizada por la CESSI durante el año 2007 entre organizaciones dedicadas al desarrollo de Software en Argentina. Si bien la temática de mejora…

The Semantic Web attempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified…

DATA QUALITY IS DEGRADED DURING THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTING AND MERGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES. BESIDES, USERS HAVE NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE ACCESSED DATA. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE METHODS UTILIZED TO ASSESS DATA QUALITY AT MULTIPLE…

When users search for information in a web site, sometimes they do not get what they want.
Assuming that the scope where the search take place works fine, there are some problems caused by the way the user interact with…

Electronic Government initiatives, such as seamless public services delivered at one-stop government portals, require establishing collaborative networks among public- and private-sector organizations. However, semantic interoperability problems emerge as these organizations may differ in the terms and meanings they use to…

At present the business processes have temporary requirements within their specifications. Logistics, e-commerce, are examples of these, among others. The time involved in business processes is important regarding the interaction of the actors. The sound of the technology involved in…

Nowadays, an increasing number of companies are using process improvement models as a mean to improve the quality of their processes and therefore the quality of their products and services. Although various improvement frameworks exist that provide organizations with aids…

La creciente cantidad de imágenes transmitidas a través de Internet ha llevado al desarrollo de Sistemas de Minería de Imágenes de propósito general.
La performance de un SMI depende en gran medida de una rápida y buena especificación del vector…