Over the last few years, a new generation of Chinese multinationals has set out to conquer global markets, featuring major international acquisitions that were unthinkable until very recently. This work seeks to analyze the nature of this emerging phenomenon, illustrating…

Purpose – The number of papers focusing on foreign companies doing business in China has increased significantly since the open-door policy came into effect in the late 1970s. Performance has been one of the most researched topics. This paper aims…

This report presents a summary of the research stimulated by the Concerted Action: Beauty & the Doctor: Moral Issues in Health Care with Regard to Appearance, funded by the European Commission, Directorate General XII, Biomedicine and Health Research Programme (BIOMED).,…

The knowledge imperfections should be considered when modeling complex problems. A solution is to develop a model that reduces the complexity and another option is to represent the imperfections: uncertainty, vagueness and incompleteness in the knowledge base. This paper proposes…

There exists a large amount of knowledge representation models. But most of them have significant limitations at the epistemic level. They do not have explanatory power. Most of them do not have means to represent some functional needs to work…

Esta comunicación describe la generación automática y la evaluación de conjuntos de
reglas para la desambiguación del sentido de las palabras (DSP) en la traducción automática. El
objetivo principal es identificar reglas de alta calidad que se pueden utilizar como…

En este artículo se presenta el trabajo que se está realizando para la llamada
ontologización superficial de WordNet, una estructura orientada a superar muchos de los
problemas estructurales de la popular base de conocimiento léxico. El resultado esperado es un

Traducción asistida por ordenador (CAT) es una aproximación alternativa
a la traducción automática que integra el conocimiento humano en el proceso
de la traducción automática. En este marco, un traductor interactúa con un sistema
de traducción que dinámicamente ofrece una…

Decision making models for autonomous agents are recently receiving increased attention, particularly in the feld of intelligent robots. This work presents a Defeasible Logic Programming approach to decision making in an environment with single and multiple robots. We will show,…

One of the issues attracting wider attention within the research into corporate internationalization is the choice of mode of entry into a foreign country. At present, China is one of the destinations which is acquiring greater importance in the international…