Este artículo es el resultado de un diálogo crítico con Literaturwissenchaft als Lebenswissenschaft (Teoría literaria como conocimiento de la vida) que es el “texto programático” (Programmschrift) escrito por el filólogo alemán Ottmar Ette, respecto de las reflexiones y debates sobre…

This is a partial theory of thinking, combining a number of classical and modern concepts from psychology, linguistics, and AI. Whenever one encounters a new situation (or makes a substantial change in one's viewpoint) he selects from memory a structure…

Building off the work of Mark Granovetter and Nancy Howell Lee, this thesis observes the employment search networks of Princeton University seniors. I interviewed thirty-five students who were actively or had recently completed searches for employment and constructed visual representations…

We report on a study of how people look for information within email, files, and the Web. When locating a document or searching for a specific answer, people relied on their contextual knowledge of their information target to help them…

This paper presents a novel algorithm for learning in a class of stochastic Markov decision processes (MDPs) with continuous state and action spaces that trades speed for accuracy. A transform of the stochastic MDP into a deterministic one is presented…

Actualmente existe una cierta tendencia investigadora hacia el área de
la búsqueda de respuestas en dominios restringidos. En este papel se detalla la parte
de nuestro sistema de búsqueda de respuestas en el dominio médico que se encarga
del análisis…

An audience driven philosophy for web site design takes the different target audiences as an explicit starting point, and organizes the basic navigation structure accordingly. However, for the designer it is not always easy, or sometimes even impossible, to assess…

This thesis investigates the use of Carrier-phase Differential GPS (CDGPS) in relative navigation filters for formation flying spacecraft. This work analyzes the relationship between the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) design parameters and the resulting estimation accuracies, and in particular, the…

La construcción del propio aprendizaje es una tarea que debemos fomentar desde los Centros Docentes Universitarios y no Universitarios, con el fin de poder llevar a cabo un proceso de enseñanza lo más significativo posible. En este caso, se aborda…

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge…