E-cognocracy [Moreno-Jiménez, 2003, 2006; Moreno-Jiménez and Polasek, 2003, 2005] is a new democratic system conceived for the purpose of extracting and diffusing the knowledge derived from the scientific resolution of complex problems that arise in the field of public decision…

Information location and interactivity are two attributes of desktop virtual environment (DVE) design that can be exploited to enhance the ability of learners to acquire information and skills that transfer to real world. The term "information location" refers to the…

Farmers from Camaquã, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were shown to have a holistic view of the quality of the soil they are cultivating. Progress towards sustainable land management will come from the synergy of both local and formal scientific…

All modern society investigates in the field of Travel Behavior because of the significance for all social and economical process of a country. The problems related with travel behavior are not structured; the Artificial Intelligence techniques have a high interest…

In this paper, we propose semantic enterprise search as promising technical methodology for improving on accessibility to institutional knowledge. We briefly discuss the nature of knowledge and ignorance in respect to web-based information retrieval before introducing our particular view on…

A person builds his or her knowledge from different sources of information. In school he learns that Buonarroti was born in Caprese and at home they tell him that the name of the neighbor's dog is Fido. In order to…

A formulation to treat aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, in a separate way, on infrastructures is proposed and applied to a dam and a breakwater in Mexico. The purpose of that is to de termine 2nd order bounds on the reliability…

This paper proposes a new routing algorithm to facilitate communication in highly mobile wireless ad-hoc networks for motorway environments with no physical infrastructure which undergo frequent topological changes. This new reactive routing algorithm for inter-vehicular communication is based on location…

In this dissertation the GEONTO-MET methodology is presented. It is oriented to formalize the geographic domain conceptualization according to the specifications of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI). The main goal is to provide semantic descriptions, which…

The goal of this study is to outline the readability of an Example-Based Machine Translation for any pair of languages by means of the language-independent properties of the lexical conceptual structure (LCS). We describe LCS as a representation of traditional…