This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective
management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers?
management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows
that the level of own knowledge is critical for…

2008

The combination of soil science, forestry, agronomy and biology allowed an analytical comparison of various experimental mixed culture systems. From these studies, a descriptor system was developed which allows to understand the contribution of each plant species to nutrient cycling,…

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because…

The guava (Psidium guajava 1.) cv. Paluma has been cultivated in Sao Francisco Valley, Northeastern of Brazil, for in natura consumption and processing purposes. In spite of its importance, there are few scientific knowledge regarding guava physiology, nutrition, irrigation and…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Esse estudo trata do processo de produção do saber apropriado por agricultores familiares. Ancora-se no objetivo central de analisar o processo de produção do saber apropriado por agricultores nas relações sociais e culturais entre o saber de senso comum e…

In the restricted single-machine common due date problem the goal is to find a schedule for the n jobs which jointly minimizes the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties, while for the weighted tardiness problem the goal is to find…

Considering the importance of the debate on the topic of disasters related to landslides, flooding and technological risks, under international and more recently in Brazil, this work analyzes the situations of vulnerability risk areas on the Northern Coast of São…

El diálogo de saberes constituye una manera de relacionar estudiantes, docentes y comunidad; se trata de que el sujeto exprese su saber frente al saber del otro y de lo otro, pues la realidad vivida se debe incorporar a la…