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…

One of the most difficult problems that humanity currently faces is the sustainable development of our society, i.e. how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Solving this…

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La importancia del trabajo cooperativo a fin de lograr aprendizajes significativos en clases de matemática, en las dos primeras etapas de la Educación Básica, motivó la realización de un estudio cualitativo, basado en la investigación-acción. Siguiendo los pasos sugeridos para…

GISODIV es el acrónimo del Grupo de Investigaciones Socioculturales del
Diseño en Venezuela. Este es un grupo de investigación adscrito a la
Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad de Los Andes
(Venezuela) cuya actividad se centra en el…

Los modelos de racionalidad limitada (bounded rationality) son considerados más realistas que las alternativas tradicionales que, basadas en la Teoría de la Utilidad Esperada (EUT), asumen agentes completamente racionales. El artículo de “Bounded Rationality” de Simon (1955) se convirtió en…

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…

My dissertation centers on the meaning of dreams as interpreted by literati in the late Ming (1368-1644), viewed through the lens of the 1636 encyclopedia Forest of Dreams. This thirty-four-juan tome is the largest extant Chinese dream encyclopedia and includes…

Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…