Computers have dramatically changed the nature of structural engineering practice by shifting work from process-oriented tasks, such as performing hand calculations and drafting, to structural modeling and interpretation of computer results. To perform these new functions, engineers need to have…

En la actualidad los activos intangibles constituyen alrededor del 80% del valor de las grandes
corporaciones, éstas a su vez incrementan sus recursos para estar en las fronteras del conocimiento
y captar una mayor parcela de su mercado. Las mil…

"La región del Alto Golfo de California (AGC) posee gran interés biológico, geológico, químico y físico debido a sus características endémicas, que han sido fuertemente modificadas por actividades humanas en el último siglo. El conocimiento del transporte de sedimentos en…

How can we insure that knowledge embedded in a program is applied effectively? Traditionally the answer to this question has been sought in different problem solving paradigms and in different approaches to encoding and indexing knowledge. Each of these is…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

Context can be described as the totality of ideas, situations and information that (a) related to, (b) provide the origins for, and (c) influence our response, perspective or judgment of a thing. Design always takes place in a context. However,…

This dissertation investigates changes that occurred in architectural culture in respect to conditions of modernity. Large-scale industrialization and urbanization caused dramatic ruptures with traditional social and economic hierarchies, forcing a reconceptualization of the theoretical constructs underlying architecture. During the course…

Por vez primera en la historia de la Educación Superior en Cuba, una Universidad se apresta a introducir en el Plan y Programa de estudio de pregrado, contenidos de las tecnologías de Teledetección Aerospacial y Sistemas de Información Geográficos (SIG)…

Sensors are increasingly being used for continuous monitoring purposes, the process of which generates huge volumes of data that need to be mined for interesting events in real-time. The purpose of this research is to develop a method to identify…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…