To determine why something has stopped working, it's helpful to know how it was supposed to work in the first place. This simple fact underlies recent work on a number of systems that do diagnosis from knowledge about the internal…

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply that each element assigns itself a logical coordinate that maps…

The need for robust and easily extensible systems for word sense disambiguation coupled with successes in training systems for a variety of tasks using large on-line corpora has led to extensive research into corpus-based statistical approaches to this problem. Promising…

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and…

A key problem in model-based object recognition is selection, namely, the problem of isolating regions in an image that are likely to come from a single object. This isolation can be either based solely on image data (data-driven) or can…

The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in ruralAfrica. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap…

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The knowledge of the characteristics of the Chilean convict population is of main importance in order to devise Health services in this area, nevertheless there was no representative information on the subject in Chile. This transversal design study describes convicted…

Theoretical constructions about time and space produced to describe and understand the relationship between gender and work, in the context of organizational university structures, are discussed. To do so, 5 narratives of academic women on their gender experiences within university…

The task of intellectuals and their relationship with the demands and social conflicts has taken the shape of three models, influential both within and outside academic life. The critical model separated positions by identifying which is the position based on…