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…

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…

In the information age, knowledge leads to profits, power and success. As an ancestor of data mining, machine learning has concerned itself with discovery of new knowledge on its own. This paper presents experiment results produced by genetic algorithms in…

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…

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…

O projeto da rede corporativa de uma empresa requer que sejam bem conhecidas as características, necessidades e tendências de evolução do seu ambiente de informática, as tecnologias e tipos de equipamentos de rede disponíveis no mercado e como tais tecnologias…

En este trabajo analizaremos comparativamente las ediciones en español y portugués de la
enciclopedia El Tesoro de la Juventud. Así como en varios países del mundo, las traducciones
de la enciclopedia The Book of Knowledge tuvieron enorme suceso editorial en…

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…

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…

La Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento con su constante evolución tecnológica ha traído aparejados grandes y acelerados cambios sociales en los más variados aspectos de nuestra vida diaria. Y que ocurre con el Derecho? Por supuesto aprovecha las…