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 Knowledge Engineering Suite is an ontology production method, based on relationship networks, for knowledge representation inside specific contexts. The production of these ontologies has three basic steps, since catching the client data, knowledge base creation, and information retrieval and…

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Ce mémoire porte sur l’expérience de la maternité des Ouagalaises et son évolution. Il s’intéresse au déroulement de la première grossesse, de l’accouchement et de l’entrée en maternité de deux générations de femmes. Privilégiant une approche holistico-inductive en méthodologie qualitative,…

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…

Resumo: A expressiva troca de germoplasma com outros países, por meio da importação e exportação de produtos agrícolas representa um aumento no risco de introdução desta praga no Brasil, por isso a importância do levantamento de informações acerca das características…

In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

This paper proposes an original generic hierarchical framework in order to facilitate the modeling stage of complex autonomous robotics mission planning problems with action uncertainties. Such stochastic planning problems can be modeled as Markov Decision Processes [5]. This work is…

Given an instance of an optimization problem together with an optimal solution, we consider the scenario in which this instance is modified locally. In graph problems, e. g., a singular edge might be removed or added, or an edge weight…

This paper introduces the system simulation technique and looks for potential application in the biodiesel agribusiness. The simulation basics are presented. It's described the components of a simulation model, the models classification and the model construction process. Some uses in…