This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…

This thesis presents a new approach to building a design for testability (DFT) system. The system takes a digital circuit description, finds out the problems in testing it, and suggests circuit modifications to correct those problems. The key contributions of…

This thesis describes two programs for generating tests for digital circuits that exploit several kinds of expert knowledge not used by previous approaches. First, many test generation problems can be solved efficiently using operation relations, a novel representation of circuit…

The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis…

Dynamic systems which undergo rapid motion can excite natural frequencies that lead to residual vibration at the end of motion. This work presents a method to shape force profiles that reduce excitation energy at the natural frequencies in order to…

This thesis describes a methodology, a representation, and an implemented program for troubleshooting digital circuit boards at roughly the level of expertise one might expect in a human novice. Existing methods for model-based troubleshooting have not scaled up to deal…

La presente propuesta explica cómo el estudio de la historia local de un pueblo,
San José de Bolívar en el estado Táchira, puede servir de estrategia didáctica
no solo para afianzar la identidad cultural del estudiante de educación
primaria en…

En este artículo se hace una revisión documental de las políticas de
lectura en el país. Se tratará lo referente al ámbito normativo de las acciones
sociales, siguiendo, por un lado, a Eisner (1998) quien lo denomina dimensión
teleológica o…

El Proyecto Avión No Tripulado - Galápagos UAV comprende el desarrollo de diferentes
prototipos consecutivos de aviones no tripulados desarrollados a partir del conocimiento de
estudiantes de diferentes facultades del colegio Politécnico, conjunto con el conocimiento
profesional de profesores pertenecientes…

This study was designed to examine the ability to use prior knowledge in text comprehension and knowledge integration. The focus of the research was on effects of different degrees of subjects' theoretical knowledge in the domain of biochemistry on their…