The first two chapters of this thesis investigate a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden, forcing them to spend longer periods in education…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…

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This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

The aim of this work is to analyse the teaching situation of Oral Standard Spanish. First, the indications
on pronunciation present in the official and unofficial normative documents, as well as in the
descriptive publications are revised. Secondly, it is…

Les contraintes de l’enseignement de la langue et de la traduction médicales résultent non
seulement de la complexité de la matière, mais aussi de la conjugaison de deux facteurs
antagonistes : d’une part, les acquis préalables des étudiants sont hétérogènes;…

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El trabajo discute el papel del lenguaje en la tradición de la filosofía trascendental.
En la primera parte, se muestra ante todo el carácter a-lingüístico de las categorías del pensamiento en la filosofía kantiana; se señalan luego las dificultades teóricas…

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The objective of this paper is the construction of an Essential Object Model for Information Systems. This model is derived from the organization workflows representing the business processes and follows rules described by the methodology proposed. To achieve the desired…