El presente trabajo describe el escenario actual de la figura del DirCom en Ecuador y propone una estrategia de comunicación orientada a posicionar y aumentar la notoriedad de la figura del DirCom en el ámbito empresarial y académico. En la…

This paper reports work in progress on an experimental text editor called CREF, the Cross Referenced Editing Facility. CREF deals with chunks of text, called segments, which may have associated features such as keywords or various kinds of links to…

Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer an approach to solve complex problems where data and control are inherently distributed among several agents. Normally, agents have to cope with conflicts based on inconsistent knowledge which arise when they exchange information. A relative common…

It is estimated that 450 million people worldwide suffer from mental and behavioral disorders.
As 75% of mental disorders onset prior to the age of 24, the college years are a particularly
critical window when mental health can be promoted…

Años atrás nacen importantes propuestas para reconocer a la naturaleza dentro de un cuerpo normativo, con el afán de determinar los daños ocasionados a la misma. Dentro de estas propuestas el Ecuador en su Constitución de la República del año…

In this research line we are exploring the possibility of having multiple preference criteria to compare arguments in in Defeasible Argumentation. In this work we are assuming a goaloriented Argumentative System, to which an application or an agent may seek…

Language is the medium used by heterogeneous and autonomous members of a community to communicate and to exchange knowledge. Social work allows members in a community to resolve problems that they could not face individually, but they must be able…

In this paper, we establish a relation between an argumentation based system: Defeasible Logic Programming (DELP), and a nonmonotonic system: Reiter’s Default Logic. This relation is achieved by introducing a variant of DELP and a transformation that maps default theories…

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Can children genuinely create new knowledge, as opposed to merely carrying out activities that resemble those of mature scientists and innovators? The answer is yes, provided the comparison is not to works of genius but to standards that prevail in…