Focusing on the Ontology Change problem, we consider an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are the logical formalization to express knowledge bases, and the integration of distributed ontologies is developed under new extensions and modifications of the Belief Revision theories…

This work belongs to the Project "Teaching and learning Psychology: a study of the educational practice in professors and beginners". It is part of an investigation program developed in the context of the subject "Didactic and Practical Planning of Psychology…

This work describes the ontology construction process for the development of an Intelligent System for the Organization and Retrieval of Knowledge in Biodiversity – SISBIO. The system aims at the production of strategic information for the biofuel chain Two main…

In this paper, the two-dimensional strip packing problem with 3-stage level patterns is tackled using genetic algorithms (GAs). We evaluate the usefulness of a greedy seeding procedure for creating the initial population, incorporating problem knowledge. This is motivated by the…

Lawyers often need to look for previous similar legal cases when analysing new ones.
The more previous cases, the more time is spent. Classical search engines execute termbased retrieval, which may miss relevant documents as well as fetch several irrelevant…

The evolution of Television as a source of information has reached the top of quality whith the Interactive Digital Television (TVDi), a technological step that allow users to become active from pasive. TVDi program is, on informatic terms, a software…

Los paradigmas, las técnicas y las prácticas producto de tradiciones regulan las formas de transmisión del saber, estableciendo las concepciones de sujeto, así como las nociones de cuerpo, de prácticas corporales y, sobre todo, de cómo se educa lo “corporal”.

Classical knowledge production is an author-centered process. The emergence of cooperative internet technologies such as wikis or blogs shows a shift towards stronger cooperative production and communication of knowledge, closing the gap between readers and authors. The incorporation of such…

Os textos de Edgar Morin, implicita e explicitamente, trazem influências filosóficas diversas. Possuem uma unidade, através da concepção do Paradigma da Complexidade.
Tal intertextualidade será o objeto de estudo do presente ensaio, com uma abordagem qualitativa e transdisciplinar, para que…

A new impetus for recollecting information seems regaining appeal, maybe heir of the “social indicators movement”. The movement was an heir to the supporters of quantification in the Social Sciences, as numbers were believed to be objective and scientific per…