SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and modularity. It builds upon the situated courteous logic programs knowledge representation in RuleML, the emerging…

El Centro Cultural Metropolitano (CCM) es una institución cultural pública creada con el objetivo de promocionar el encuentro entre las diversas culturas para la construcción permanente de la identidad, el conocimiento, valoración y conservación de los patrimonios; ubicada en una…

Le présent projet vise à documenter la nécessité d’augmenter notre connaissance
de la présence des contaminants organiques tels que les médicaments dans
l’environnement et d’évaluer leur devenir environnemental. On a étudié la présence de
composés pharmaceutiques dans différents échantillons d'eau.…

Communication is an integral part of today's workplace, linking people, objects, and information. Now that knowledge exchange is considered a significant work activity, new technologies have been developed to support communication with people who are On the move. As a…

La Declaración de Rijeka sobre el futuro de la Bioética fue firmada en Marzo 12 de 2011; el mismo día en que ocurría el desastre de Fukushima en un insensible mundo lleno de tecnología. Dentro de los puntos de la…

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because…

For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…

Intellectual capital, as opposed to traditional conceptions of intellectual property, is neither as simple to define nor as straightforward to protect and regulate. As companies in the financial services sector attempt the efficient management of increasingly voluminous and strategically important…

An indirect crisis, the terrorist attacks of September 1 1 , is used as a catalyst to review the tasks of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime. However, it is insufficient to initiate a comprehensive change to the regime to incorporate the…

The purpose was to examine the domain specificity of the self-regulatory skills of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) compared to their peers without DCD. Participants included 10 children with DCD and 10 without. A sport specific problem-solving task (shooting…