There are many areas in Computer Science where time plays an important role. Artificial Intelligence is one of them. In this particular area Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP) was developed to cope with incomplete and potentially inconsistent information. This formalism combines…

Mon mémoire propose un portrait ethnographique de la congrégation juive reconstructionniste Dorshei Emet à travers l’analyse combinée des rituels et des discours des membres. Les rituels proposés à la congrégation transmettent la philosophie reconstructionniste et un éthos que les membres…

We discuss the convenience of an early introduction of undergraduate students to the reading of scientific papers, mostly divulgative or historical. This can encourage them to deeper readings and to search and discover in the scientific writings new sources of…

by Henry C. Chueh., Thesis (M.S.)--Harvard University--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Program in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1989., Includes bibliographical references (leaves [165]-[172]).

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…

The paper presents a case study illustrating a collaborative problem solving process in Virtual Communities of Practice. The process relies on the existence of an underlying shared knowledge base – a repository of resources, and is carried out collaboratively by…

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…

En esta comunicación presentaremos el trabajo que estamos realizando, centrado en la creación de entornos que permitan la construcción conjunta del conocimiento mediante herramientas informáticas, en concreto la herramienta Knowledge Forum como elemento mediador en el proceso de discusión y…

This paper describes the experiences and attitudes of third year midwifery students regarding giving advice on contraception and sexual health to women in their care., Concerns about the theory-practice gap and discussion regarding the role of the preregistration programme in…

Inspirée par les débats portant sur la typologie de la recherche proposée par Michael Burawoy (2005b) et fondée sur une analyse qualitative de vingt-cinq entrevues auprès de professeurs en histoire, en économie et en sociologie, notre investigation a comme but…