This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

The area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning has been enriched during the past two decades with the addition of Argument-Based Reasoning Systems. In formal systems of defeasible argumentation, arguments for and against a proposition are produced and evaluated to test…

This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, together with compatriots. First I derive limits to state autonomy that…

This paper focuses on the general problem of the lexical bottleneck and, in particular, on the issues of semantic clustering and disambiguation by means of word usage cues obtained from sublanguage-specific corpora. Our approaches combines the use of numerical techniques…

La Sociedad Astronómica de Barcelona (1910-1923) se fundó con el objetivo de
desarrollar y difundir el conocimiento científico en la ciudad de Barcelona y, por extensión,
Catalunya. A pesar del peso mayoritario de los estudios astronómicos durante los
primeros años,…

Apart from speculating about a series of issues open to debate, such as the dark side of progress and globalization or the conflict between science and morality,
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) offers a feasible insight into the state…

Une préoccupation essentielle traverse cette thèse: l'indifférence systémique de la Loi internationale sur la propriété intellectuelle a l'égard des savoirs traditionnels autochtones. De manière générale, un écart semble d'ailleurs croissant entre l'importance des accords internationaux sur les questions d'intérêt commercial…

This work is focused on the study of digital newspapers interactivity, not considering the electronic versions of written newspapers, assuming that the new newspapers, which don't have neither tradition nor production routines in written communication, can fit better in internet.…

Este artículo muestra un método para la marcación automática de emociones
(EmoTag) en textos en lengua inglesa, prestando especial atención a la utilización de un analizador de dependencias (MINIPAR) para la localización de las
palabras implicadas en las negaciones. De…

Los avances de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC)
presionan la educación y provocan transformaciones en el qué y cómo enseñar,
entre otros aspectos. Su conversión en un soporte educativo efectivo requerirá
de procesos de innovación de la…