In this paper, we present an approach to student's evaluation in a well-defined domain based on a semantic network. A similarity matrix based on the semantic memory structure of humans is used to build a semantic distance model in order…

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…

Over the last several years, multidimensional data modeling has had several proposals for its formalisation; on the other hand, the incorporation of fuzzy logic in databases has increased the need to represent uncertainty.
However, to our knowledge, so far projects…

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…

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…

A solution of problems in multiagent systems involves representing beliefs of agents immersed in dynamic environments. Observation-based Defeasible Logic Programming (ODeLP) is an argument-based logic programming language that is used to represent an agent’s knowledge in the context of a…

El proceso de Educción de Requisitos para Proyectos de Explotación de Información, contempla la realización de un conjunto de plantillas que se utilizan para documentar los conceptos educidos durante las primeras fases del proyecto. Por otro lado, la Ingeniería del…

Los docentes universitarios apelan al uso de herramientas web 2.0 para facilitar o mejorar el dictado de sus materias. De acuerdo con la bibliografía analizada, estas incorporaciones no son sistemáticas. Las herramientas son incorporadas paulatinamente a la práctica docente pero,…

Myrciaria floribunda (H.West ex Willd.) O.Berg, Myrtaceae, popularly known as “camboim amarelo”, was collected in Restinga de Jurubatiba (RJ, Brazil). Leaves, stems and flowers were individually submitted to hydrodistillation, affording the respective essential oils. Monoterpenes were the main group of…

O processo de Descoberta de Conhecimento em Bancos de Dados Geográficos (DCBDG) busca encontrar padrões, informações e relacionamento espacial implícitos em dados descritivos e espaciais armazenados em bancos de dados geográficos. Este tipo de descoberta é muito importante para o…