To find a good termination criterion for genetic algorithms is a difficult and frequently ignored task. In most instances the practitioner stops the algorittm after a predefined number of generations or function evaluations. How this number is established? This stop…

Las franquicias, han marcado la pauta en la nueva tendencia mundial del comercio, éstas representan un conjunto de derechos de propiedad industrial o intelectual. Por tanto, el objeto de este artículo es examinar la contabilización de los activos intangibles en…

Las actividades relacionadas al levantamiento topográfico han sido modificadas tremendamente durante las pasadas décadas por la incorporación de instrumentos de última tecnología entre los que se puede mencionar el GPS y la Estación Total. Es necesario resaltar que la característica…

by Jeffrey C. Chi., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216).

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

We identify different kinds of relevance relations between formulas that emerge in the process of belief revision. Informal definitions for alternative notions of relevance are suggested and a set of schemas and intuitive postulates for formalizing these notions are proposed.

by Guru Prasanna., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001., Page 123 blank., Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-122).

by Daisuke Oka., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaf 78).

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…

In developing telephone-based conversational systems, we foresee future systems capable of supporting multiple domains and flexible vocabulary. Users can pursue several topics of interest within a single telephone call, and the system is able to switch transparently among domains within…