An increasing number of organizations are involved in the development of strategic
information systems for effective linkages with their suppliers, customers, and other
channel partners involved in transportation, distribution, warehousing and maintenance
activities. An efficient inter-organizational inventory…

In this paper, a supervised learning system of word sense disambiguation is presented. It is based on conditional maximum entropy models. This system acquires the linguistic knowledge from an annotated corpus and this knowledge is represented in the form of…

by Jose Maria Gonzalez Pinto., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).

El propósito principal de este artículo es analizar la relación existente entre la gerencia, la investigación y el Plan Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, para establecer la necesaria vinculación de la investigación universitaria con las políticas de desarrollo establecidas…

After considering the various dimensions of innovation policy, this paper reviews the experiences of the Czech Republic (CR) in implementing such policies in the post-1990 transition period. Particular attention is paid to the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

Dans ce document, serons détaillées les résultats de mes travaux de recherche d’études doctorales. Tout d’abord, nous discuterons de la synthèse totale de la lépadine B, la plus courte à paraître dans la littérature à ce jour. Cette synthèse, en…

Web engineering methods provide a systematic approach to develop complex and high quality Web applications. Many of these methods provide, in some way, personalization support. However, none of the existing Web methodologies provide a tool which allow the modeling, automatic…

El presente trabajo aborda el conocimiento; relaciones, representaciones y valoraciones que alumnos y docentes realizan en el contexto de la cotidianeidad escolar, integrando el proyecto de investigación "Adolescencia y Escuela" que se viene implementando desde 1995, en la cátedra Fundamentos…

Cultural resources like traditional medicinal knowledge need to be recognized in their role tied to important regional practices in Zimbabwe. This is especially as a nexus of legal definitions for biological, intellectual and cultural resources will inform a National Sui…