The term “Federated Databases” refers to the data integration of distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous databases. However, a federation can also include information systems, not only databases. When integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…

Product-line architectures, i.e. a software architecture and component set shared by a family of products, represents a promising approach to achieving reuse of software. Several companies are initiating or have recently adopted a product-line architecture. However, little experience is available…

Numerical Taxonomy aims to group in clusters, using so-called structure analysis of operational taxonomic units (OTUs or taxons or taxa) through numerical methods. Clusters that consitute families was the purpose of this series of last projects.
Structural analysis, based on…

Biofouling is the colonization of man-made substrata by sessile organisms. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of two antifouling saturated copper coating. Bioassays were can-ied out at a harbor in Argentine (38°02'S-57°32'W). During six months, one…

Las listas de palabras con sus frecuencias se usan ampliamente en muchos procedimientos de agrupamiento y categorización de textos. Usualmente para la compilación de tales listas se usan las aproximaciones basadas en morfología (como el stemmer de Porter) para unir…

El clustering de documentos es un campo de investigación popular en los ámbitos del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, la Minería de Datos y la Recuperación de información (RI). El problema de agrupar unidades léxicas mediante clustering ha sido menos estudiado…

AbstractThe study reported in this paper aimed at examining the role of creativity in L2 learners’ individual and collaborative written narrative task performance, with the sociocultural theory of mind as a frame of reference. To this end, a sample of…

The need for privacy has become a major priority for both governments and civilians desiring protection from signal interception. Widespread use of personal communications devices has only increased demand for a level of security on previously insecure communications. This paper…

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…

En la superficie de vehículos, tales como aviones, automóviles y trenes, las cavidades abiertas son una importante fuente de ruido generado aerodinámicamente, de aumento de la resistencia y de peligrosas fluctuaciones de presión. Diversos métodos han sido probados para suprimir…