Une préoccupation essentielle traverse cette thèse: l'indifférence systémique de la Loi internationale sur la propriété intellectuelle a l'égard des savoirs traditionnels autochtones. De manière générale, un écart semble d'ailleurs croissant entre l'importance des accords internationaux sur les questions d'intérêt commercial…

To understand speech in noisy situations, listeners must not only `extract' the speech signal from the background noise, but also determine the meaning of the words and phrases in the extracted signal, integrate this information with past knowledge, and store…

Geoacoustic properties of the upper tens of metres of ocean bottom sediments can significantly influence low-frequency acoustic propagation in the ocean. Therefore, knowledge of these properties is required for reliable propagation modelling and matched-field processing. To date, however, few measurements…

Short survey carried out at the beginning of the course in order to elicit information about the students' background, future prospects and knowledge of ICT.

Each year, complaints are filed at the Quebec and Canadian Human Rights Commission by individuals who have been refused employment because their hearing sensitivity does not meet the standards required by the employer. This paper presents four recent cases. The…

The CHHA survey about hard of hearing youth found that access is a major difficulty. In asking young hard of hearing persons about their experiences in everyday life, the survey found that about half had difficulty, watching television, over half…

In a multi-agent system, a group of individ- uals interact in a social context in order to boost their capabilities and enhance global per- formance. Each individual's action repertoire may be reduced, but it's social capability allows it to interact…

In this work we present a reactive autonomous robot navigation system based only on omnidirectional vision. It does not rely on any prior knowledge about the environment apart from assuming a structured one, like indoor corridors or outdoor avenues. The…

A knowledge of the shape of the cornea is of major importance for the planning and monitoring of surgery, and for the correct diagnosis of corneal diseases. Many authors have studied the geometry of the second corneal surface in the…

This paper presents a proposal for an architecture that integrates knowledge discovery systems (automatic acquisition) and knowledge based systems (experts systems). This work formulates considerations over the viability of the implementation of this architecture according to the advance of the…