In spite of years of research and development, formal structured estimation of time and effort required to develop a Management Information System (MIS) is still an open problem. Usual estimation techniques applied by now are supported by the not so…

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…

The refinement technique allows us to capture the relationship between specification and implementation in software developments. The precise documentation of the refinement relations hip makes it possible the traceability of the requirements through the refinement steps.
Unfortunately, the standard modelling…

El presente artículo describe un sistema de adquisición de datos para un medidor de deformación. Se presenta el análisis del diseño de la circuitería y la programación, los resultados obtenidos y finalmente algunas conclusiones.

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a well-known form of
discourse analysis which is built around the examination of the
ideological, social, historical and cultural components of
discourse. The field has become well-established since the early
1980s…

Presentamos el cálculo de la estructura electrónica de bandas de la superficie ideal del Pt(100) y Pt(110). El cálculo se realizó utilizando la teoría del funcional de la densidad y el método de enlace fuerte. Como resultado de nuestro cálculo…

Simon Borg is Professor of TESOL at the School of Education of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He teaches MA TESOL modules on Teacher Education and Grammar Teaching. He is on the editorial boards of Language Teaching…

This special issue compiles a number of articles which take a serious look at grammar teaching and learning at Primary and Secondary School. Grammar has always had a central role in educational considerations and still remains one of the most…

Purpose: The aim of this study is to define the profile of the Management Assistant in organizations and from that profile establish the competences of a degree in Management Assistance under the new European Higher Education Area.Design/methodology: The first phase involved the…

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…