Presented at: Conference on Structural Reform and the Transformation of Organizations and Businesses, sponsored by the Ashcroft International Business School and the Athenian Policy Forum. Homerton College, Cambridge, 3-6 September 2003.

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…

Se trata de acercarnos conceptualmente a la comprensión de los elementos
básicos sobre los que las comunidades indígenas han construido su complejo sistema
de conocimientos. El logos en la cultura indígena se conforma desde una perspectiva
integral, donde participan activamente…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

Conocer la cinética de deshidratación osmótica de un alimento y los factores que la afectan son aspectos importantes para diseñar un adecuado proceso. En este trabajo se investigó la aplicación del modelo de Weibull normalizado para describir la deshidratación osmótica…

En este artículo intentamos justificar la relación intrínseca entre texto/imagen en libros escolares que abordan la enseñanzaaprendizaje de la ciudad. Partimos de ciertas premisas teóricas para luego, indagar a través de principios de la metodología cualitativa, el valor del contenido…

This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile setting with fixed probabilities. In addition, we extend…

This paper proposes a definition of relative uncertainty aversion for decision models under complete uncertainty. It is shown that, for a large class of decision rules characterized by a set of plausible axioms, the new criterion yields a complete ranking…

Document classification has already been widely studied. In fact, some studies compared feature selection techniques or feature space transformation whereas some others compared the performance of different algorithms. Recently, following the rising interest towards the Support Vector Machine, various studies…

We consider entry-level medical markets for physicians in the United Kingdom. These markets experienced failures which led to the adoption of centralized market mechanisms in the 1960's. However, different regions introduced different centralized mechanisms. We advise physicians who do not…