In order to apply HAZUS methodology to a real seismic risk study outside USA, the
Oslo municipality was chosen as study region. The civil institutions were asked for neccesary information and we were provided with different ASCII and Arcview files…

Este artículo propone que para una eficaz gestión de los recursos hídricos es también necesario incluir variables sociológicas que ayuden a comprender y explicar la concepción y comportamiento social en torno al agua. Con esta intención se presenta una metodología…

Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe, mediante la utilización de una gran base de datos de más de 100 encuestas de hogares para el…

El presente artículo describe un sistema de adquisición de datos para un medidor de deformación. Se presenta el análisis del diseño de la circuitería y la programación, los resultados obtenidos y finalmente algunas conclusiones.

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…

In this study we use cointegration methods to investigate the relationship between the variables of the Ohlson model (stock price, earnings per share and book value) with panel data. The cointegration tests were applied at individual and group level (by…

En este artículo presentamos el sistema AMSABEL, un sistema de acceso a información basado en lenguaje natural. AMSABEL proporciona acceso al contenido de una base de datos relacional, a partir de consultas realizadas en lenguaje natural, tanto en castellano como…

THE DISASTERS CAUSED BY NATURAL PHENOMENA HAVE BEEN PRESENT ALL ALONG HUMAN HISTORY; NEVERTHELESS, THEIR CONSEQUENCES ARE GREATER EACH TIME. THIS TENDENCY WILL NOT BE REVERTED IN THE COMING YEARS; ON THE CONTRARY, IT IS EXPECTED THAT NATURAL PHENOMENA WILL…

Metric-temporal databases are a new database model that combines metric spaces with temporal databases to process similarity queries within a time interval or snapshot. The Historical FHQT is a metric-temporal index which has shown to be competitive answering this type…

WE PRESENT A NOVEL METHOD FOR LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION THAT AIMS TO GET A DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE TO THOSE PROPOSED IN THE LAST DECADES TO TACKLE THE UNDERLYING VOLUME OF DATA OF THE INFORMATION AND MULTIMEDIA AGES. THESE LATTER METHODS ARE…