A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive,…

Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' survival. When specialists come together, however, they often speak in different…

La sociedad actual, cultural y tecnológicamente compleja, nos enfrenta a un importante replanteamiento de la educación en sus diferentes ámbitos y niveles, y en este sentido, la formación inicial del educandos, profesorado y comunidad es un elemento clave y estratégico…

There are many areas in Computer Science where time plays an important role. Artificial Intelligence is one of them. In this particular area Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP) was developed to cope with incomplete and potentially inconsistent information. This formalism combines…

En esta comunicación presentaremos el trabajo que estamos realizando, centrado en la creación de entornos que permitan la construcción conjunta del conocimiento mediante herramientas informáticas, en concreto la herramienta Knowledge Forum como elemento mediador en el proceso de discusión y…

All intelligence relies on search - for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the…

Currently, people involved in protection against disaster situations must
make the decisions about preparing and executing evacuation plans for potential
causes of disaster. Hence, it would be desirable to develop a system capable
of obtaining and analyzing evacuation plans…

"En zonas semiáridas del centro de México la sobreexplotación de pastizales ha ocasionado severa reducción de su productividad. Su fisonomía se caracteriza por espacios abiertos con presencia de costras biológicas del suelo. Aunque este tipo de paisaje es representativo de…

"En el Altiplano Potosino, la especie vegetal utilizada para la producción de mezcal es Agave salmiana. La industria mezcalera, que carece de sistemas de explotación basados en el conocimiento biológico de la especie que utiliza como materia prima, puede causar…

The first edition of the CASPUR Summer School for Advanced Computing took place from August 29 to September 9th, 2005, in the ENI meeting center in the beautiful surroundings of Castel Gandolfo’s lake. The school has been invented to further…