Competence approaches are among the techniques that claim to measure the behaviour, skills, knowledge and understanding crucial to effective managerial performance. It is claimed that competence approaches empower and develop managers while enabling them to meet organizational objectives. Since the…

Information Retrieval Systems normally deal with keywordbased technologies. Although those systems reach satisfactory results, they aren’t able to answer more complex queries done by users, especially those directly in natural language. To do that, there are the KnowledgeBased Systems, which…

In an environment in which SMEs increasingly search for opportunities abroad
and in which they have to face mounting competitive pressure on their home
markets, efficiency is vital. While there are little doubts on the benefits
that a more…

Various aspects of the synergy effects, the new tendencies of the processes of creating knowledge based society and the knowledge economy, as well as institutional interaction and the processes of internationalization of scientific and technological progress are described in the…

From the perspective of Resource Based View Theory companies pursue sustainable competitive advantages in their resources and capabilities, analyzing and strengthening them (Penrose, 1959; Wernerfelt, 1984; Barney 1991; Amit & Schoemaker, 1993; Peteraf, 1993). So strategy of the organization should…

This paper presents the results of an ongoing effort to develop a direct solder bumping process for electronics packaging. The proposed process entails delivering molten droplets onto specific locations on electronic devices to form solder bumps. This study is focused…

The need for improving software processes approximated the software engineering and artificial intelligence areas. Artificial intelligence techniques have been used as a support to software development processes, particularly through intelligent assistants that offer a knowledge-based support to software process’ activities.…

La rabia es una enfermedad infecciosa, zoonótica, caracterizada por alteraciones del sistema nervioso, producida por el virus de la rabia, perteneciente al Género Lyssavirus de la Familia Rhabdoviridae. Es habitualmente transmitida por la mordedura de un animal rabioso que elimina…

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…

In this paper a new conception of science is defined, which opposes apocalyptic points of view —science is a perverse knowledge leading to world destruction—, to irenist points of view —science is an armonic knowledge, as a puzzle where we…