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…

Este estudio se ha orientado partiendo de los
siguientes objetivos: Vincular el principio de pertinencia
metodológica e instrumental a las características
del objeto-sujeto investigado en el marco
epistemológico de una disciplina. Reflexionar
sobre la pertinencia de la investigación cualitativa
y…

La Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales de la Universidad
de Los Andes (FCFA-ULA), en el estado Mérida, Venezuela, requiere
dar a conocer principios, acciones y alcances fundamentales de las
carreras de Ingeniería Forestal, Geografía y Técnico Superior Forestal,
a…

This paper deals with lifelong learning. Based on a three-year case study it provides evidence of innovations in this area. The paper aims to add to the body of work in blended learning by providing evidence of knowledge, persuasion, decision,…

The Knowledge Engineering Suite is an ontology production method, based on relationship networks, for knowledge representation inside specific contexts. The production of these ontologies has three basic steps, since catching the client data, knowledge base creation, and information retrieval and…

This paper presents a group of elements to improve the teaching and learning in technological education, applied to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These elements are based on some contributions issued from contemporary education models, namely, the thematic approach, meaningful…

La aplicación de técnicas de biología molecular al estudio de la microbiología del suelo ha representado un gran avance en el conocimiento de
estos ecosistemas. El reconocimiento de la presencia de una gran diversidad de microorganismos en suelos, que resultaban…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Document classification has already been widely studied. In fact, some studies compared feature selection techniques or feature space transformation whereas some others compared the performance of different algorithms. Recently, following the rising interest towards the Support Vector Machine, various studies…

It is interesting and important to compare, analyze and assess the alternative tools that could be used in the area of Knowledge Representation. In this paper we present a reasearch line associated to this goal: to formally establish the relation…