When building Hypermedia/Web Applications, (different) designers are often faced with the same problems over and over again. Those recurring problems soon yield elegant solutions, which can be conveniently described as design patterns. In this paper we present two patterns for…

An audience driven philosophy for web site design takes the different target audiences as an explicit starting point, and organizes the basic navigation structure accordingly. However, for the designer it is not always easy, or sometimes even impossible, to assess…

We develop a theory to explain the transition from stagnation to modern growth. We focus on the forces that shaped the evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a multisector model of…

Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

En este artículo, describimos un modelo interactivo de resumen orientado
a síntesis de información (PRISMA). El usuario interactúa con el sistema por
medio de listas de conceptos clave extraídos automáticamente. El modelo hace uso
de información sintáctica para identificar conceptos…

El objetivo de este estudio es demostrar que
el material iconográfico constituye una
fuente para la historia de la enfermería. Se
ha pretendido alcanzar dicho fin mediante un estudio
descriptivo, retrospectivo, comparativo, histórico
etnográfico. El material iconográfico utilizado
se corresponde…

Obtaining an implementation of a data warehouse is a complex task that forces designers to acquire wide knowledge of the domain, thus requiring a high level of expertise and becoming it a prone-to-fail task. Based on our experience, we have…

The construction of a teenager population’s citizenship identity is influenced by the cultural and social capital belonging to every student, as well as by two aspects of school organisation. On the one hand, there is an academic contribution motivated by…

Encontrar un formalismo adecuado para representar la paráfrasis constituye un reto para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. En este artículo, se analiza la distancia de edición de árboles como caso base para dicha representación. Los experimentos realizados utilizando Edit Distance…

In this paper we present different error measurements with the aim to evaluate the quality of the approximations generated by the GNG3D method for mesh simplification. The first phase of this method consists on the execution of the GNG3D algorithm,…