Decision tree learning algorithms have been successfully used in knowledge discovery. They use induction in order to provide an appropriate classification of objects in terms of their attributes, inferring decision tree rules. This paper reports on the use of ID3…

Humans have always been intrigued by their ability to reason. We have constantly attempted to emulate this process, trying almost everything, from physiological explanations, to sociological accounts. The approach with possibly the longest tradition conceives this process as a mere…

Collaborative systems are becoming a widely used tool particularly among professional communities and research groups. They provide a suitable context for distributed people working on the same subject to concentrate their work in a shared place to which everyone has…

No contexto econômico atual, onde a competição entre as empresas está cada vez mais relacionada à sua capacidade de transformar informação em conhecimento e este último em decisões e ações de negócio, o Data Warehouse (DW) exerce papel fundamental como…

Póster presentado en 11th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering "Chemical Engineering in the Frontiers of Knowledge", Barcelona, 21-24 October 2008., This study was financial supported by the “Generalitat Valenciana GV07/129 ” of the Spanish Government.

About fifteen years ago, the Electronic Engineering Department of the National Technological University of Buenos Aires was structured grouping the curricula in Knowledge Areas. One of them was the Digital Area. It was assumed that its contents should be changing…

La baisse de plus en plus marquée de l’âge au premier rapport sexuel et l’augmentation de l’âge au premier mariage impliquent une durée plus longue d’exposition au risque des grossesses prénuptiales et aux infections sexuellement transmissibles incluant le VIH/sida. C’est…

Data mining is one of the most important analysis techniques to automatically extract knowledge from large amount of data. Nowadays, data mining is based on low-level specifications of the employed techniques typically bounded to a specific analysis platform. Therefore, data…

Ce mémoire de maîtrise se penche sur les différentes figures de la filiation littéraire dans Bourlinguer de Blaise Cendrars. Le premier chapitre aborde les rapports intertextuels qu’entretient Bourlinguer avec un certain nombre d’œuvres, notamment celle de Rudyard Kipling, et montre…

La suffocation est une forme d’asphyxie dans laquelle l’oxygène ne peut atteindre le sang. Il existe divers types de suffocation dont la suffocation par confinement/ environnementale, les étouffements externe et interne, et les asphyxies traumatique/ positionnelle. La littérature scientifique sur…