This document describes a research and development project - Semantic Web and Cooperative Problem Solving for Online Communities of Practice. The aim of the project is to build a system supporting Cooperative Problem Solving within the framework of online Communities…

Electronic Government applications aim to deliver efficient, seamless, customer-focused services to the public using various distribution channels. One of challenges in building such applications is the requirement to rely upon preexisting, often heterogeneous government applications. In order to enable communication…

Proponemos un modelo de interdependencia general lineal para la economía mundial, y utilizamos datos de la División Estadística de las Naciones Unidas para estimar sus parámetros. Esto nos permite evaluar la propagación de un shock exógeno a los gastos autónomos…

Este artículo reporta el trabajo de investigación realizado en base a datos extraídos de la Encuesta Anual realizada por la CESSI durante el año 2007 entre organizaciones dedicadas al desarrollo de Software en Argentina. Si bien la temática de mejora…

Causalidad entre salud y productividad no resulta directa de establecer. Por un lado, mayores ingresos pueden trasladarse en una dieta de mejor calidad. Por el otro, es probable que un trabajador saludable sea más productivo. Este trabajo analiza el efecto…

The Semantic Web attempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified…

Utilizando datos de la Encuesta de Hogares para el periodo 1995-2001, se estudian los factores que explican el diferencial entre las tasas de desempleo de hombres y mujeres en Argentina. Se encuentra que este diferencial viene explicado no por diferencias…

When users search for information in a web site, sometimes they do not get what they want.
Assuming that the scope where the search take place works fine, there are some problems caused by the way the user interact with…

Electronic Government initiatives, such as seamless public services delivered at one-stop government portals, require establishing collaborative networks among public- and private-sector organizations. However, semantic interoperability problems emerge as these organizations may differ in the terms and meanings they use to…

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to…