Over the last several years, multidimensional data modeling has had several proposals for its formalisation; on the other hand, the incorporation of fuzzy logic in databases has increased the need to represent uncertainty.
However, to our knowledge, so far projects…

ABSTRACT: Micronutrients availability is na important constraint for crops in the Cerrado region, and its correction is always needed to obtaining economic yields. Old and new nutritional problems came with the agriculture expansion in Cerrado. Although being crucial for increasing…

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In this paper a cross-disciplinary study of the use of epistemic markers as hedging rhetorical strategies in research articles in English is carried out. Based on computer readable data, and combining quantitative and
qualitative methods, the article argues that the…

RESUMO: Folhas e caules, com sintomas de antracnose, foram coletados de populações nativas de Stylosanthes spp., de 1997 a 2000, em localidades de Minas Gerais, Goiás e Bahia, para avaliar a variabilidade patogenica do agente causal (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides). Duzentos e…

This paper discusses questions about communication of probabilistic knowledge in the light of current theories of agent communication. It will argue that there is a semantic gap between these theories and research areas related to probabilistic knowledge representation and communication,…

Les propriétés des matériaux moléculaires proviennent à la fois de la structure des composantes individuelles et de la façon dont elles s’associent. Ce dernier aspect reste difficile à contrôler, malgré de grandes avancées en science des matériaux. Pour mieux comprendre…

Un Sistema Tutor Iteligente (STI) es una aplicación cuyo objetivo se centra en la enseñanza personalizada y su principal característica es la adaptación dinámica de la instrucción de acuerdo al perfil y actividad del alumno, para lo cual incorpora técnicas…

Cette recherche porte sur la lexicologie, la lexicographie et l’enseignement/apprentissage du lexique. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet Modélisation ontologique des savoirs lexicographiques en vue de leur application en linguistique appliquée, surnommé Lexitation, qui est, à notre connaissance, la…

In systems where agents are required to interact with a partially known and dynamic world, sensors can be used to obtain further knowledge about the environment. However, sensors may be unreliable, that is, they may deliver wrong information (due, e.g.,…