The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

This is an electronic version of an article published in Mental Health and Substance Use, 1(2), pp.104-117. Mental Health and Substance Use is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t777186830., Background: Mutuality is a feature of many ‘self-help groups’ for people with mental…

El éxito en la búsqueda de conocimiento a partir de grandes cantidades de datos radica en la calidad de los mismos. Hasta ahora los aspectos de calidad de los datos se han enfocado principalmente a la limpieza de los datos:…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

Nowadays information circulates quickly in a human organization, what generates an internal difficulty in preserving inside the organization essential information to support decision-making. Decision Support Systems (DSS) aiding organizational decision-making, had, up to now, rigid inferences machines restricted to the…

This article proposes a method for achieving an appropriate balance between the parameters of support, precision, and simplicity during the evolution of classification rules by means of genetic programming. The method includes an adaptive procedure in order to achieve such…

Ontologies can be used in Domain Oriented Software Engineering Environments (DOSEEs) to organize and describe knowledge and to support management, acquisition and sharing of knowledge regarding some domain. However, ontology construction is not a simple task. Thus, it is necessary…

Este trabalho mostra uma forma de pensar concorrente. São utilizados algoritmos de grafos, algoritmo do menor caminho, para mostrar desde a especificação até a implementação de algoritmos concorrentes. Objetiva-se mostrar uma outra forma de ensinar a concorrência, sua teoria, propriedades…

Résumé:
Les progrès réalisés dans le domaine médical ont permis un prolongement de l’espérance
de vie, l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des patients; ce qui implique aussi des
changements dans des domaines comme l’assurance-vie.
Le principe de la tarification…

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