Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…

Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier
involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of
a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about
the component…

We analyze an alternative to the standard rationalizability requirement for observed choices by considering non-deteriorating selections. A selection function is a generalization of a choice function where selected alternatives may depend on a reference (or status quo) alternative in addition…

We identify conditions under which preferences over sets of consumption opportunities can be reduced to preferences over bundles of \"commodities\". We distinguish ordinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up to monotone transformations, from cardinal bundles, whose coordinates are defined up…

We provide a survey of the literature on ranking sets of objects. The interpretations of those set rankings include those employed in the theory of choice under complete uncertainty, rankings of opportunity sets, set rankings that appear in matching theory,…

Scientific knowledge and skills acquired by students during pre-university education has diminished since legislative changes were introduced in Spain during the 1990's. As a result, education in the field of science is suffering. Some initiatives are currently underway in Great…

En este artículo se intenta analizar el fragmento de Polibio concerniente a los acontecimientos
de Cíos del año 202, tratando de incardinar los hechos dentro del contexto histórico
general del momento y entre los objetivos centrales trazados por Filipo V…

La climatología histórica es una especialidad que empieza a tener en Europa un nutrido colectivo de investigadores. El interés por mejorar el conocimiento de la variabilidad climática ha llevado a recuperar información de los archivos históricos para caracterizar el clima…

Knowledge on evapotranspiration is essential in quantifying water use depletion and to allocate scarce water resources to competing uses. Despite that an extensive literature describes the theoretical mechanisms of turbulent water vapour transport above and within crop canopies fewer studies…

Utilizamos información publicada e inédita sobre mamíferos, reptiles y anfibios amenazados para identificar áreas de gran riqueza de especies amenazadas dentro de la Reserva de Biósfera Bañados del Este (Uruguay). Esa información fue luego comparada con una propuesta de zonificación…