In spite of years of research and development, formal structured estimation of time and effort required to develop a Management Information System (MIS) is still an open problem. Usual estimation techniques applied by now are supported by the not so…

DATA QUALITY IS DEGRADED DURING THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTING AND MERGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES. BESIDES, USERS HAVE NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE ACCESSED DATA. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE METHODS UTILIZED TO ASSESS DATA QUALITY AT MULTIPLE…

Objective: analyzing ethic and bioethics dilemmas experienced by nurses who take palliative care for hospitalized elderly. Method: quality study, exploring, descriptive, using the interview as technical for collecting oral history from tem nurses. The context was a geriatric palliative care…

El tamaño de los corpora de entrenamiento ha sido siempre uno de los cuellos de botella de los analizadores de dependencias, tanto en términos de optimización como en términos de precisión. En previos estudios nos dimos cuenta que los corpora…

Hybrid dynamic spatial approximation trees are recently proposed data structures for searching in metric spaces, based on combining the concepts of spatial approximation and pivot based algorithms. These data structures are hybrid schemes, with the full features of dynamic spatial…

In this study we use cointegration methods to investigate the relationship between the variables of the Ohlson model (stock price, earnings per share and book value) with panel data. The cointegration tests were applied at individual and group level (by…

En este artículo presentamos el sistema AMSABEL, un sistema de acceso a información basado en lenguaje natural. AMSABEL proporciona acceso al contenido de una base de datos relacional, a partir de consultas realizadas en lenguaje natural, tanto en castellano como…

Metric-temporal databases are a new database model that combines metric spaces with temporal databases to process similarity queries within a time interval or snapshot. The Historical FHQT is a metric-temporal index which has shown to be competitive answering this type…

THE DISASTERS CAUSED BY NATURAL PHENOMENA HAVE BEEN PRESENT ALL ALONG HUMAN HISTORY; NEVERTHELESS, THEIR CONSEQUENCES ARE GREATER EACH TIME. THIS TENDENCY WILL NOT BE REVERTED IN THE COMING YEARS; ON THE CONTRARY, IT IS EXPECTED THAT NATURAL PHENOMENA WILL…

WE PRESENT A NOVEL METHOD FOR LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION THAT AIMS TO GET A DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE TO THOSE PROPOSED IN THE LAST DECADES TO TACKLE THE UNDERLYING VOLUME OF DATA OF THE INFORMATION AND MULTIMEDIA AGES. THESE LATTER METHODS ARE…