Instruction may be seen as the intentional creation of conditions around learning so as to facilitate the achievement of determined goals. Normally, instruction is based upon certain educational strategies. It is well accepted in the field of educational technology that…

Determining an optimal schedule to minimize the completion time of the last job abandoning the system (makespan) becomes a very difficult problem when there are more than two machines in the flow shop. Due both to its economical impact and…

Modeling is one of the most important activities throughout any software development life cycle. Within object-oriented modeling, class generalization is a powerful, yet simple concept for abstracting commonalities between classes. Although, as classes evolved in the model, their semantics may…

Durante los primeros años de civilización
los hombres manejaron los asuntos políticos,
sociales, económicos y culturales a través del
uso exclusivo de la oralidad: el razonamiento, las
normas, los tratados, entre otros; eran convenidos
y establecidos a través de la…

The methodology “b-learning” is a new teaching scenario and it requires the creation, adaptation and application of new learning tools searching the assimilation of new collaborative competences. In this context, it is well known the knowledge spirals, the situational leadership…

The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…

Se pretende determinar el alcance del artículo 402 de la Constitución del Ecuador 2008, referente a los derechos colectivos de propiedad intelectual. Dicho texto legal dispone que se prohíbe el otorgamiento de cualquier tipo de derechos sobre conocimientos colectivos, aseveración…

La investigación universitaria es una de las actividades que realiza las funciones de:
generación, transmisión, difusión y explotación del conocimiento. Esta línea de investigación aborda la necesidad de gestionar la investigación universitaria desde la perspectiva de la gestión del Capital…

The problem of automatic face recognition is to visually identify a person in an input image. This task is performed by matching the input face against the faces of known people in a database of faces. Most existing work in…

The design of the control laws governing the behavior of individual agents is crucial for the successful development of cooperative agent teams. These control laws may utilize a combination of local and/or global knowledge to achieve the resulting group behavior.…