Determining an optimal schedule to minimize the completion time of the last job abandoning the system (makespan) becomes a very difficult problem when there are more than two machines in the flow shop. Due both to its economical impact and…

2008

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal, Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse ou ce mémoire a été dépouillée, le cas échéant, de ses documents…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…

//// Abstract: Starting from an analysis of the paradox of Zenon and the notions of quantitative and qualitative multiplicity, Bergson establishes, on the one hand, the incapacity of rational knowledge to explain the real and, on the other, he emphasizes…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

When it was created in 1995, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) served only 200 students and offered two degrees. Today, it has expanded its activities to serve over 20,000 students and 16 official degrees. UOC also offers more than…

“The Subtle Body of Language and the Lost Sense of Philosophy”. This paper develops the ideas that underlie Wittgenstein’s philosophical work, at least since the Philosophical Investigations, of language as something animal and words as mainly expressive. I begin by…

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Globalización, geografía, política y fronteras


Boisier, Sergio




Los cambios de la globalización y los fundamentos teóricos para enseñar la geografía