In systems where agents are required to interact with a partially known and dynamic world, sensors can be used to obtain further knowledge about the environment. However, sensors may be unreliable, that is, they may deliver wrong information (due, e.g.,…

This paper describes a small scale collaborative research project designed to
promote undergraduate students’ academic literacy through proactive
methods of support embedded within the content of an early childhood
education module. Two of the professionals involved in the project offer

La cuenca del Congo es la selva tropical más grande después del Amazonas. Este bosque cuenta con más de 28 especies de árboles dominantes (muy grande), de un valor comercial importante, como Wenge y Bosee Clair-. En una parte del…

Este artigo constitui-se da análise do planejamento e do ordenamento territorial do turismo e das políticas públicas adotadas no Brasil com o foco no litoral do Paraná, observando o processo de regionalização do turismo e concentrando o estudo em Guaratuba…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

El desarrollo de las cooperativas en Venezuela a partir de 1999 se ha visto marcado por políticas
gubernamentales en el área jurídica, social, económica y educativa. La educación se ha convertido en
un pilar fundamental en este tipo de organizaciones…

Originally published in Rhizomes, an international peer-reviewed online journal. Reprinted in Giffney, N. ed., 2008. Queering the Non/Human. London: Ashgate., Subjectivities configured as post-human may challenge investments in former configurations of what it means to be human, but there remains…

Este artículo describe la integración de ontologías en formato OWL como
fuentes de conocimiento externas de un sistema de diálogo. El presente trabajo se
centra en conseguir un agente que gestione cualquier ontología independientemente
del dominio y sin perder expresividad…

La reflexión epistemológica sobre la Lingüística
posee un componente sincrónico, la Filosofía de la
ciencia lingüística, y un componente diacrónico, la
Historiografía de la Lingüística, en la que se realizan
dos tipos de análisis sobre el cambio en los programas

In the last decade several ways to formalize defeasible reasoning have been studied. A particular approach, defeasible argumentation, has been particularly successful to achieve this goal.
The inference process of argument-based systems is based on the interaction of ar- guments…