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…

La innovación y la economía basada en el conocimiento, junto con las nuevas tecnologías que sirven de base para adaptar el modelo industrial europeo al siglo actual, se sitúan en el núcleo de las grandes declaraciones programáticas europeas que pretenden…

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,…

In this paper, we present a novel model of an artificial immune system (AIS), based on the process that suffers the T-Cell. The proposed model is used for solving constrained (numerical) optimization problems. The model operates on three populations: Virgins,…

THE NECESSITY OF VERIFICATION TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE BASED-SYSTEMS (KBSS), THAT HELP TO GUARANTEE A CERTAIN DEGREE OF QUALITY AND RELIABILITY OF THESE SYSTEMS WILL INCREASE IN THE FUTURE WHEN MORE CRITICAL SYSTEMS ARE DEVELOPED IN AREAS SUCH AS INDUSTRY, SCIENCE,…

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…

Tenemos que huir de la falsa dicotomía entre procedimiento y espontaneidad porque esta es artificial. Un buen vendedor no es el que ejecuta procedimientos es el que se hace pasando por las distintas etapas respecto al procedimiento hasta dominarlo, de…

A PERSON BUILDS HIS OR HER KNOW LEDGE 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…

China’s growing economic importance has led to a significant increase in the volume of empirical research about business and management in this country during the last few years. This study reviews the 180 empirical papers focusing on the Chinese context…

Organizational knowledge has always been an important subject, but in the last years this issue has acquired a greater importance, due to factors like the development of information technologies, scientific advances and global competition, among others. Knowledge management goes beyond…