A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

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…

Teachers must be able to adapt to a rapidly changing IT knowledge and technology. This requirement is further compounded by the need that this knowledge and technology be incorporated in the curriculum at the same rate.
This paper presents a…

This paper discusses questions about communication of probabilistic knowledge in the light of current theories of agent communication. It will argue that there is a semantic gap between these theories and research areas related to probabilistic knowledge representation and communication,…

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…

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…

En un contexto educativo, hay esencialmente dos modos de aprovechar la capacidad de proceso y almacenamiento de una computadora: a) producir sistemas basados en el conocimiento (tales como servicios de Internet WWW, enciclopedias multimedia, etc.) en los que el usuario…

Una nueva filosofía de Management tiene el objetivo de capturar, diseminar y rehusar el conocimiento disperso que poseen las organizaciones y que junto a sus recursos humanos constituyen su Capital Intelectual, que forma parte de su activo más importante en…

El descubrimiento de conocimiento (KD Knowledge Discovery) consiste en la búsqueda de patrones interesantes y de regularidades importantes en grandes bases de información [Holsheimer y Siebes, 1991; Piatetski-Shapiro et al., 1991]. Al hablar de descubrimiento de conocimiento basado en sistemas…