Fontes de informações sobre medicamentos são na maioria das vezes inacessíveis aos usuários e
quando disponíveis existe uma barreira relativa ao conhecimento técnico, na maioria das vezes exigido para
a compreensão destas. Os centros de informações sobre medicamentos aparecem como…

Doenças tropicais afetam centenas de milhões de pessoas impedindo o desenvolvimento social e econômico nos países mais pobres. Ferramentas (por exemplo drogas, vacinas, diagnósticos) e estratégias para controlar as doenças tropicais freqüentemente não surtem efeitos devido a dificuldades na implementação…

2007, Trabalhos apresentados na I Mostra de Resultados de Pesquisa da Embrapa Cerrados.

La Gestión del Conocimiento abarca un conjunto de procesos que administra el conocimiento de las organizaciones. Logra aumentar la creatividad y garantizar el éxito organizacional, ya que se fundamenta en el recurso más valioso con que actualmente cuentan las instituciones:…

In this work two declarative approaches based on the BDI theory are studied, an agent programming language 3APL and an agent architecture that uses defeasible argumentation for knowledge representation and reasoning. Based on that study and considering that in 3APL…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

This work belongs to the Project "Teaching and learning Psychology: a study of the educational practice in professors and beginners". It is part of an investigation program developed in the context of the subject "Didactic and Practical Planning of Psychology…

This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

Focusing on the Ontology Change problem, we consider an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are the logical formalization to express knowledge bases, and the integration of distributed ontologies is developed under new extensions and modifications of the Belief Revision theories…