2007

Recent research has identified an extended exchange network in the Japan Sea Rim area extending over 3,000 km and including the mainland. This paper reviews current knowledge about obsidian studies in Hokkaido, a part of this region, and makes proposals…

Since Robotics is the field concerned with the connection of perception to action, Artificial Intelligence must have a central role in Robotics if the connection is to be intelligent. Artificial Intelligence addresses the crucial questions of: what knowledge is required…

This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding language called Omega is used to…

If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…

There are multiple sorts of reasoning by analogy between two domains; the one with which we are concerned is a type of contextual analogy. The purpose of this paper is to see whether two domains that look analogous would be…

En materia de aprendizaje virtual, son numerosos los recursos que existen y se
almacenan en repositorios. La tendencia hacia la estandarización de estos almacenes ha
contribuido a mejorar la compartición, búsqueda y recuperación de la información, además de
fomentar la…

This paper present the structure, function and performance of SPOST, a broad coverage, rule-based part-of-speech tagger developed as a component of the Pagnlyzer Spanish Analysis Component of the Pangloss Knowledge-based Machine Translation System. It also describes preparations for the general…

Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from 23 acute chagasic patients from localities of Western Venezuela (state
of Barinas) where Chagas’ disease is endemic were typed using ribosomal and mini-exon gene markers.
Results showed that isolates of the two major phylogenetic lineages, T.…

El descubrimiento de conocimiento (KD Knowledge Discovery) consiste en la búsqueda de patrones interesantes y de regularidades importantes en grandes bases de información [Holsheimer y Siebes, 1991; Piatetski-Shapiro et al., 1991]. Al hablar de descubrimiento de conocimiento basado en sistemas…