AbstractDue to aspect-oriented mechanisms explosion, their concepts arrive to distributed systems tackling concepts as security, persistence, or synchronization, especially in middleware approaches. Regarding distributed databases, the research has been focused mainly on object-oriented databases. Based on the great impact of…

The concept of “approximate” searching has applications in a vast number of fields. Some examples are non-traditional databases (e. g. storing images, fingerprints or audio clips, where the concept of exact search is of no use and we search instead…

En este artículo presentamos el sistema AMSABEL, un sistema de acceso a información basado en lenguaje natural. AMSABEL proporciona acceso al contenido de una base de datos relacional, a partir de consultas realizadas en lenguaje natural, tanto en castellano como…

EQUIVALENCE OF SOME STRINGS. THESE ARE LOWERCASE VERUS UPPERCASE MATCHING, MORPHOLOGICAL INFLECTION, DERIVATION, AND SYNONYMY OF WORDS: E.G. GIVE A QUERY COMPUTER, FIND COMPUTER COMPUTING, WORKSTATION. THE LATTER PROBLEMS ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN LANGUAGES WITH RICHER MORPHOLOGY AND LESS STABLE…

This study investigates an approach of knowledge discovery and data mining in insufficient databases. An application of Computational Taxonomy analysis demonstrates that the approach is effective in such a data mining process. The approach is characterized by the use ot…

Este documento explora la relación entre la distribución del ingreso, las instituciones y los conflictos en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el uso de una nueva base de datos de estadísticas de la distribución del ingreso calculado a partir…

THE GOAL OF THIS PAPER IS TO DOCUMENT THE USE OF TIME SERIES IN COLOR MATCHING. ALTHOUGH TIME SERIES ARE NOT COMMONLY USED FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE RESULTS OBTAINED, BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SIMILARITY IN TIME SERIES USING THE…

La reserva de la biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán (BRTC) posee gran diversidad de mamíferos, pero la información sobre distribución geográfica es incompleta para la mayoría de las especies. Esto ha representado una dificultad en esfuerzos previos para modelar el nicho ecológico y…

Software engineering has entered a new era, the Internet and its associated technologies require a different conceptual framework for building and understanding software solutions.
Users ask to develop applications more rapidly, and software engineers need to ensamble systems from preexisting…

Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe, mediante la utilización de una gran base de datos de más de 100 encuestas de hogares para el…