How are we able to construct truly realistic representations
of knowledge organizations (KOs)? The paper introduces and defines the
knowledge profile as a method to investigate the epistemological basis of
any KO to outline the consequences this basis has upon…

En: ACM-SE 42 Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference

The past five years have seen the arrival and extremely rapid expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Western Hemisphere. The rapid sweep across North America has permitted little time for developing knowledge of the virus's potential impacts on…

Este trabajo de titulación nos presenta la creación de un documental sobre la evolución de la animación publicitaria audiovisual en Quito desde los años 60 hasta el 2010. Por medio de videos de archivos y testimonios de profesionales involucrados en…

A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…

El patrimonio de un pueblo incluye a la música, un ejemplo claro es la música popular andina que puede identificarse en las bandas de pueblo las cuales son producto del mestizaje.1 La problemática que se presenta es la falta de…

Ontologies serve as a mean to establish a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Within the information integration area, ontologies are useful to solve heterogeneity problems. They provide a set of knowledge terms, including the vocabulary, the…

O processo de Descoberta de Conhecimento em Bancos de Dados Geográficos (DCBDG) busca encontrar padrões, informações e relacionamento espacial implícitos em dados descritivos e espaciais armazenados em bancos de dados geográficos. Este tipo de descoberta é muito importante para o…

The Bifurcation Interpreter is a computer program that autonomously explores the steady-state orbits of one-parameter families of periodically- driven oscillators. To report its findings, the Interpreter generates schematic diagrams and English text descriptions similar to those appearing in the science…

Well-known methods for solving the shape-from-shading problem require knowledge of the reflectance map. Here we show how the shape-from-shading problem can be solved when the reflectance map is not available, but is known to have a given form with some…