The main purpose of this book is to present the contents of an introductory course in databases. In this regard, one can find a number of material validity and recognized different scopes. This work is developed under the guidelines that…

In a scene where stakeholders are geographically distributed, communication presents new challenges for research areas. Considering the characteristics of interpersonal communication and the virtual area where it is carried out, the importance of applying interdisciplinary approaches, such as Cognitive Engineering,…

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Most search methods in metric spaces assume that the topology of the object collection is reasonably regular. However, there exist nested metric spaces, where objects in the collection can be grouped into clusters or subspaces, in such a way that…

This paper focuses on prediction and prevention of seismic risk through a system for decision making. Data Warehousing and OLAP operations are applied, together with, data mining tools like association rules, decision trees and clustering to predict aspects such as…

Este trabajo aporta nuevas evidencias sobre el impacto de las reformas comerciales sobre los salarios. En primer lugar, se introduce un modelo de comercio que combina un mecanismo de fijación de salarios no competitivo debido a la existencia de sindicatos,…

Los programas de pensiones latinoamericanos tienen baja cobertura. Utilizando paneles de registros administrativos de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay, caracterizamos las historias de contribución de la población. Construimos tres indicadores: densidad de cotización, tasas de transición y duración de los períodos…

The name Lavatera x columbretensis, recently proposed for a hybrid growing in the Columbretes Archipelago (Castellón, E of Spain), is transferred to Malva. Additional data on nomenclature of other related taxa of ‘L. sect. Anthema’ and ‘L. sect. Axolopha’, are…

Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

En este artículo se estudia el uso de diferentes fuentes de información
para tareas de clasificación de textos. Dado el creciente número de bibliotecas digitales,
se impone una revisión de la información disponible en dichas bases de datos.
Se han…