Humans have always been intrigued by their ability to reason. We have constantly attempted to emulate this process, trying almost everything, from physiological explanations, to sociological accounts. The approach with possibly the longest tradition conceives this process as a mere…

No contexto econômico atual, onde a competição entre as empresas está cada vez mais relacionada à sua capacidade de transformar informação em conhecimento e este último em decisões e ações de negócio, o Data Warehouse (DW) exerce papel fundamental como…

Ontologies serve as a mean to establish a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Within the information integration area, ontologies are useful to solve heterogeneity problems. They provide a set of knowledge terms, including the vocabulary, the…

About fifteen years ago, the Electronic Engineering Department of the National Technological University of Buenos Aires was structured grouping the curricula in Knowledge Areas. One of them was the Digital Area. It was assumed that its contents should be changing…

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…

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.…

El artículo recuerda los intentos de sistematización de saberes anteriores al Romanticismo y recapitula la evolución de la historiografía literaria durante los siglos XIX y XX para presentar después algunas reflexiones metodológicas con respecto a la clasificación de obras literarias…

La historia del conocimiento que el mundo mediterráneo, primero Grecia y luego Roma,
tuvo de la India, comienza en forma paulatina con la llegada, por ejemplo, de objetos de
marfil. A partir de la expedición de Alejandro, tiempo en el…

Este trabajo pretende descubrir una proximidad sistemática entre el pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa y el idealismo alemán, en particular, en torno a la noción de "visio intellectualis" entendida en el plano teórico del conocimiento. Pretende demostrar que lo que…

Este trabajo intenta mostrar cómo la reflexión de Merleau-Ponty se constituye en un ejemplo que corrobora la ambigüedad y la contingencia que el filósofo le atribuye a la realidad y a sus expresiones. Se analizarán cada uno de los planos…