Se propone un análisis de la cientificidad y las pretensiones de conocimiento de las ciencias de la información desde la perspectiva de Richard Rorty. Se presenta la crítica rortyana a la filosofía epistemológicamente centrada, haciendo énfasis en la presunción de…

En este trabajo se propone una metodología para mejorar las predicciones de incendios forestales. Utilizando un simulador ya desarrollado, se utiliza un algoritmo genético para realizar una búsqueda efectiva de parámetros de entrada tal que estos parámetros logren una buena…

It is interesting and important to compare, analyze and assess the alternative tools that could be used in the area of Knowledge Representation. In this paper we present a reasearch line associated to this goal: to formally establish the relation…

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar a percepção ambiental dos moradores do bairro Jardim Tangará, localizado na porção leste do município de São Carlos, São Paulo. Dentre os aspectos socioambientais abordados, deu-se ênfase á nascente localizada no bairro. Realizou-se…

Durante los últimos años, ha adquirido importancia creciente el estudio de la interacción radiación visible-materia (fotónica), en la que la primera queda confinada a volúmenes de dimensiones mucho menores que la longitud de onda de la luz. El conocimiento de…

The present paper is about applying competence modeling for a knowledge engineer in the case of the company WBSA Sistemas Inteligentes S.A. The process was based on Lucia and Lepsinger model, by which competences are characterized through the identification of…

As many authors have stated, the importance of organizational learning is fundamental in order to gain competitive advantage and survive in a turbulent environment. Many learning models have been studied in recent years. They have been used to analyze practices…

The Semantic Web purports to give computeraccessible meaning to the content of the World Wide Web. The rationale behind this project is to create an environment where all this information could be freely exchanged among diverse entities, yet retaining its…

The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

James Reinders (Chief Evangelist of Intel® Software at Intel) and Jim Jeffers (Principal Engineer at Intel)
have gathered in this book the working knowledge of the people involved to prototype and productize the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor. This include…