Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…

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In this work two declarative approaches based on the BDI theory are studied, an agent programming language 3APL and an agent architecture that uses defeasible argumentation for knowledge representation and reasoning. Based on that study and considering that in 3APL…

Fontes de informações sobre medicamentos são na maioria das vezes inacessíveis aos usuários e
quando disponíveis existe uma barreira relativa ao conhecimento técnico, na maioria das vezes exigido para
a compreensão destas. Os centros de informações sobre medicamentos aparecem como…

Denominada comumente cipó-de-fogo, Pyrostegia venusta é uma trepadeira por gavinhas, perene, empregada como ornamental devido às vistosas inflorescências de cor laranja, e como medicinal para o tratamento de diarréia e disenteria. Ensaios fitoquímicos identificaram alantoína, β-sitosterol e hesperidina na espécie.…

This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

When using tableaux algorithms to reason about Description Logics (DLs), new information is inferred from the models considered while trying to achieve knowledge satisfiability. By focusing the ontology change problem, we consider an environment where DLs are the logical formalization…

In this paper, the two-dimensional strip packing problem with 3-stage level patterns is tackled using genetic algorithms (GAs). We evaluate the usefulness of a greedy seeding procedure for creating the initial population, incorporating problem knowledge. This is motivated by the…

2007

Se plantea una aproximación crítica desde el punto de vista de la filosofía social para analizar aspectos de los sistemas vigentes de producción de conocimientos y tecnologías en promoción de la salud. Se analizan sus capacidades para generar perplejidades, dilemas…