Artificial Intelligence has long dealt with the issue of finding a suitable formalization for reasoning with incomplete and potentially inconsistent information. Defeasible argumentation [SL92,CML00,PraVre99] has proven to be a successful approach in many respects, since it naturally resembles many aspects…

As interconnect linewidths continue to scale downward, a detailed knowledge of stress evolution and void growth processes enables a determination of the electromigration-induced failure times of these interconnects. This thesis provides this knowledge through the development of an electromigration simulation…

Con el conjunto de elementos de carácter teórico, que en reflexión son aquí abordados, se enfrenta el reto hacia un nuevo discurso alimentado por la intención de revolucionar las posibilidades para nuestras rutinarias prácticas pedagógicas dirigidas a la formación de…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress targets have not been met. Nevertheless, the United Nations (UN) has not yet undertaken in-depth review in order to discover the reasons behind this lack of progress in achieving the MDG. From a political…

INVENIO es un sistema que dota de la capacidad de búsqueda semántica sobre la plataforma Google Search Appliance de Google. Es un sistema basado en tecnologías de la Web Semántica y que transforma las consultas realizadas por el usuario en…

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…

La formación de docentes es considerada un asunto focal para
el avance de políticas educativas coherentes con los planes de desarrollo
del país. La necesidad de pensar, de manera crítica y reflexiva, sobre un
proyecto político para la formación docente…

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…

The aim of this study is to test the assumption that the depictions of ancient boxing found on Attic Black and Red Figure pottery are accurate. Due to the scarcity of ancient written material and physical evidence, most of our…

This study examines Christian experientialist epistemology as articulated of late by Alvin Plantinga especially and also William Alston. It situates their approach to the epistemic status of Christian belief claims within the overall outlook they have respectively developed on what…