ABSTRACT: The paper presents the experience acquired through the use of an internet portal as a divulgation media and to support the Information Management (UM) for the project "Brazilian Rocks as Alternative Sources of Potassium". It's described the portal creation,…

Teachers must be able to adapt to a rapidly changing IT knowledge and technology. This requirement is further compounded by the need that this knowledge and technology be incorporated in the curriculum at the same rate.
This paper presents a…

The accomplishment of systems with abilities to reason about actions and change and systems that can manage incomplete or not very reliable information with abilities to discuss or argument has been of great importance for artificial intelligence community. These two…

In order to deal with the Ontology Change problem and considering an environment where Description Logics (DLs) are used to describe ontologies, the question of how to integrate distributed ontologies appears to be in touch with Belief Revision since DL…

This paper introduces an automatic procedure to assist on the interpretation of a large dataset when a similarity metric is available.
We propose a visualization approach based on a graph layout method- ology that uses a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP)…

Les professionnels de l'information traversent actuellement une période de redéfinition de leur profession provoquée par la transformation de l'information et des processus informationnels vers un mode de plus en plus électronique. Les systèmes d'information Web (SIW) — c'est-à-dire des systèmes…

Los estudios de variabilidad de la madera son de gran importancia para conocer mejor su comportamiento y garantizar un adecuado aprovechamiento de la misma. La especie Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae) está considerada como una de las maderas tropicales de mayor…

Los impactos ecológicos de las especies introducidas constituyen uno de los aspectos menos investigados de la ecología de las
invasiones, especialmente en Europa. La mayor parte de los estudios realizados se han restringido a especies que tienen un impacto
económico…

A new impetus for recollecting information seems regaining appeal, maybe heir of the “social indicators movement”. The movement was an heir to the supporters of quantification in the Social Sciences, as numbers were believed to be objective and scientific per…

La présente étude a comme objectif d’analyser l’intégration linguistique des immigrants au marché du travail au Québec et les facteurs qui y sont associés. Nous le réalisons en examinant la place du français dans les pratiques linguistiques de la main-d’œuvre…