Presented at: Conference on Structural Reform and the Transformation of Organizations and Businesses, sponsored by the Ashcroft International Business School and the Athenian Policy Forum. Homerton College, Cambridge, 3-6 September 2003.

Problematic aspects of intercultural communication are considered in the context of: an increasingly internationalized market for higher education; the globalization of knowledge; the compatibility of distinct national higher education cultures; and the capacity for successful cross-cultural cooperation. This is exemplified…

El Arbitraje en Equidad es una de las instituciones más antiguas de administración de justicia.
Desde los orígenes de la humanidad, ya en la biblia, hay historias en las que se recurría ante un tercero imparcial, para que, según su…

En: Proceedings of KR-2006, Tenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Lake District of the United Kingdom, june 2-5, 2006, p. 90-99

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…

Introduction: Bien que la dépense énergétique associée au travail mental ne soit pas plus élevée qu’au repos, des travaux ont mené à la conclusion que la réalisation d’une tâche mentale stressante était reliée à une augmentation de la consommation énergétique.…

Se trata de acercarnos conceptualmente a la comprensión de los elementos
básicos sobre los que las comunidades indígenas han construido su complejo sistema
de conocimientos. El logos en la cultura indígena se conforma desde una perspectiva
integral, donde participan activamente…

Alors que certains mécanismes pourtant jugés cruciaux pour la transformation de la pluie en débit restent peu ou mal compris, le concept de connectivité hydrologique a récemment été proposé pour expliquer pourquoi certains processus sont déclenchés de manière épisodique en…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

The aim of this work is to analyze the knowledge interchange on multi-agent systems using shared knowledge areas. The project involves the analysis and reformulation of some aspects of the Linda model, adding new model level features. This work proposes…