Campo de Gibraltar is a highly industrialized area situated in the South of Spain around Algeciras bay (36° 7'N, 5°27'W). This area has an advantageous situation from a geographical, geological and botanical points of view. However, high wind speeds and…

The development of human capital is crucial and necessary since it drives the nation to the envisioned vision and mission. Without a quality human capital, a nation will be weak due to want of human factor that is capable of…

Education during ancient India was not merely imparting knowledge, teachings of skills and values but it was a mission for man-making. As the old value tradition and spiritualism are slowly vanishing, the modern scientific and technological advancement has brought revolutionary…

This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.

This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…

A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…

Con la finalidad de resolver problemas inherentes a la administración de medicamentos, se llevó a cabo un Curso de "Administración de Medicamentos" en el Hospital Universitario "Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín" en Noviembre de 2001. Los talleres aportaron…

Como o uso de plantas medicinais tem se popularizado, sendo comum sua utilização como
complemento aos tratamentos convencionais, a falta de conhecimento sobre interações entre fármacos e
plantas medicinais põem em risco a saúde dos usuários. Neste artigo é apresentada…

Ontic is an interactive system for developing and verifying mathematics. Ontic's verification mechanism is capable of automatically finding and applying information from a library containing hundreds of mathematical facts. Starting with only the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the Ontic…

We have developed a method and prototype program for assisting two experts in their attempts to construct a single, consensus knowledge base. We show that consensus building can be effectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identifies, explains, and resolves…