The great advance of the communications and the importance gained by the mobile systems have increased the development of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) applications, nevertheless at the present time do not exist methodologies specifically designed for the WAP applications development…

We present point slicing, a new slicing technique for imperative programs that gives an answer to the question Which sentences can be executed if sentence p is executed?, very common in program testing, debugging, and understanding tasks and, as far…

This paper focuses on prediction and prevention of seismic risk through a system for decision making. Data Warehousing and OLAP operations are applied, together with, data mining tools like association rules, decision trees and clustering to predict aspects such as…

Several surveys have indicated that many data warehouses fail to meet business objectives or are outright failures. One reason for this is that requirement engineering is typically overlooked in real projects. This paper addresses data warehouse design from a business…

El proyecto actual expone el diseño y la implementación de un prototipo de estación meteorológica remota, para el Observatorio Astronómico de Quito (O.A.Q.), con la finalidad de obtener información meteorológica del medio ambiente. De esta manera, esta dependencia de la…

During recent years, new software engineering paradigms like component-based software engineering and COTS-based development have emerged. Both paradigms are concerned with reuse and customisation of existing components. The use of COTS software has become more and more important in state-of-the-art…

Since academic year 2003/2004 a series of modifications has been introduced in physics subjects of the Engineering degrees of the University of Alicante in order to achieve a continuous evaluation. The importance of continuous evaluation increases the students’ success, in…

Se hace la segunda revisión de las 13 especies mexicanas integrantes del ensamble específico Frankliniella paricutinensis Johansen. También se incluye la descripción de una especie nueva afín a este ensamble específico encontrada en agroecosistemas de cebolla Allium cepa L. en…

This issue, with special editor Natalia Evnitskaya, is about CLIL (Content Language and Integrated Learning). It is dedicated to Mia Victori Blaya, who passed away on the 29th November 2010 ...Aquest volum, editat per Natalia Evnitskaya, versa sobre la implementació dels enfocaments AICLE (Aprenentatge…

Las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (Pyme) han sido consideradas como un grupo objetivo secundario de las políticas de control de contaminación en México. Aunque su impacto ambiental individual puede ser pequeño, su impacto agregado puede causar serios problemas para…