The dissertation examines aesthetic, scientific and occult evocations of fluids such as air at the turn of the 20th century. Eighteenth century experimental philosophy postulated so-called "imponderable fluids" understood as instances of a subtle matter that fills empty space. The…

The theory change area have defined several operators trying to model the dynamic of knowledge. The goal of this work is to introduce a preprocessor of perceptions that could be part of an agent. The purpose of the preprocessor is…

In this article we describe our experience in the development of a personalizable dissemination model for the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library’s Web-based newsletter-service, which combines adaptive with adaptable personalization techniques, being capable or ranking news according to navigation-inferred preferences…

RÉSUMÉ:
Selon Kant, il faut rendre la Critique plus compréhensible. Cela revient à doter son exposition
d’un plus haut degré de lucidité (Helligkeit), c’est-à-dire combiner la clarté discursive avec une
clarté intuitive. Pour ce faire, nous représentons les grandes…

Visual recognition remains one of the grand goals of artificial intelligence research. One major challenge is endowing machines with human ability to recognize tens of thousands of categories. Moving beyond previous work that is mostly focused on hundreds of categories,…

This dissertation is about family history and the constitution of the social among the Abenaki, an aboriginal people often associated with the Odanak reserve in southern Quebec. It is an ethnography of belonging among a people whose status as aboriginal…

Los modelos gráficos probabilísticos, tales como las redes bayesianas y los diagramas de influencias permiten representar de forma coherente el conocimiento de un dominio bajo condiciones de incertidumbre. Están basados en los fundamentos de la teoría de la probabilidad y…

We have developed a method and prototype program for assisting two experts in their attempts to construct a single, consensus knowledge base. We show that consensus building can be effectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identifies, explains, and resolves…

Un certain nombre de théories pédagogiques ont été établies depuis plus de 20 ans. Elles font appel aux réactions de l’apprenant en situation d’apprentissage, mais aucune théorie pédagogique n’a pu décrire complètement un processus d’enseignement en tenant compte de toutes…

El delfín estuarino Sotalia guianensis se encuentra distribuido a lo largo de la costa Atlántica. En Venezuela, es localizado principalmente en

el Sistema del Lago de Maracaibo. Con el propósito de aportar información sobre los patrones de comportamiento…