The design of intelligent agents is a key issue for many applications. Although there is no universally accepted de nition of intelligence, a notion of rational agency has been proposed as an alternative for the characterization of intelligent agency.
Modeling…

This paper analyzes general features and most important objectives of feminist translation. One of the main principles of this theory is the non-acceptance of the traditional definition of equivalence. For this reason, we will compare feminist conception of equivalence with…

We identify different kinds of relevance relations between formulas that emerge in the process of belief revision. Informal definitions for alternative notions of relevance are suggested and a set of schemas and intuitive postulates for formalizing these notions are proposed.

This paper presents an adaptive learning model for market-making under the reinforcement learning framework. Reinforcement learning is a learning technique in which agents aim to maximize the long-term accumulated rewards. No knowledge of the market environment, such as the order…

Global discourse structures and local discourse relations are complementary modes of textual organization which an automated text generation system must account for and treat as interactive knowledge resources. To illustrate this interaction, we analyse a medical case report in terms…

Recientes estudios muestran un gran desconocimiento
de los españoles sobre las culturas
de origen de los inmigrantes. Los elementos
de la cultura, como los mitos, la religión,
los tabúes, los usos y costumbres, etc, inciden en el
proceso salud/enfermedad/atención. Por…

La etnoecología ha sido definida como el estudio interdisciplinar de los
sistemas de conocimiento, prácticas, y creencias de los diferentes grupos humanos sobre su ambiente. En las décadas de los 60 y 70, los
primeros estudios en etnoecología se centraron…

Selon Lakoff et ses collaborateurs, l’être humain formule
ses idées en ayant notamment recours à des « expressions
métaphoriques » qui sont l’expression de surface de « métaphores
conceptuelles » structurant un domaine : cela consiste à utiliser les
termes…

The Sami people have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in spite of pressures against it from colonialism. The formal education systems of Norway and Finland have acted in discord with Sami decision-making since their inception. In response to…

Research in decision making has identified the importance of prior knowledge and heuristics on decision making behaviour. These develop with experience in a fashion similar to how domain experts develop specialized knowledge structures and heuristic reasoning patterns. This research is…