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…

El trabajo discute el papel del lenguaje en la tradición de la filosofía trascendental.
En la primera parte, se muestra ante todo el carácter a-lingüístico de las categorías del pensamiento en la filosofía kantiana; se señalan luego las dificultades teóricas…

Humans have always been intrigued by their ability to reason. We have constantly attempted to emulate this process, trying almost everything, from physiological explanations, to sociological accounts. The approach with possibly the longest tradition conceives this process as a mere…

A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…

This work extends the semantics and implementation of fuzzy prolog presented in [VGM02] in order to include Default Knowledge capability. The new semantic allows non-uniform default assumptions and has Closed World Assumption (CWA) and Open World Assumption (OWA) as particular…

Collaborative systems are becoming a widely used tool particularly among professional communities and research groups. They provide a suitable context for distributed people working on the same subject to concentrate their work in a shared place to which everyone has…

The ecological camp as a university extension project emerged in 2001 from the subject Sociology and Environmental Education in the course Environmental Engineering in the Agronomic Engineering School at National University of the East. It was designed as an environmental…

The horticulture at La Plata horticultural belt, is driven by different management types that are named and classified with different criteria. One 2-type classification refers to farmers, farms or management types named conventional, and organic, based in the general, more…

Knowledge-intensive processes are widely used to recover from errors, handle exceptional cases and complaints, and to improve or adapt a process itself. In this context, evolved Business-Process Reengineering (BPR) techniques are changing to give some answers to this reality. In…