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…

La cuenca del Congo es la selva tropical más grande después del Amazonas. Este bosque cuenta con más de 28 especies de árboles dominantes (muy grande), de un valor comercial importante, como Wenge y Bosee Clair-. En una parte del…

Soybean powdery mildew (Erysiphe diffusa) was considered a minor disease in Brazil in the decades immediately after its identification. However, since the outbreak in 1996/97 in all cultivated areas the disease has become a constant threat to farmers and losses…

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…

En el presente artículo se exploran las relaciones existentes entre el conocimiento producido en las universidades latinoamericanas y las redes de poder que no sólo lo hacen posible sino que garantizan su reproducción y mantenimiento. Utilizando el Movimiento de la…