The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical defenses. These include two storage-proteins: ovorubin that provides a conspicuous (presumably warning) coloration and has…

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…

Decision making models for autonomous agents are recently receiving increased attention, particularly in the feld of intelligent robots. This work presents a Defeasible Logic Programming approach to decision making in an environment with single and multiple robots. We will show,…

Este trabajo ha tenido como objetivo examinar el desempeño en lectura y escritura de niños que asisten a instituciones escolares primarias de la ciudad de La Plata. Su interés radica en la importancia que adquiere alcanzar niveles competentes de alfabetización…

Desde la filosofía de la inclusión social y el criterio de los Derechos Humanos, la educación inclusiva en la primera infancia es fundamental para los niños con discapacidades; la escuela suele ser el ámbito donde sus necesidades educativas se reconocen…

The horticulture at La Plata horticultural belt, is driven by different management types that are named and classified with different criteria. One 2-type classification refers to farmers, farms or management types named conventional, and organic, based in the general, more…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

La siguiente investigación profundiza en el conocimiento de los procesos de trabajo de los trabajadores sociales en la contemporaneidad Argentina. A partir de un trabajo de campo, encuestas y entrevistas en profundidad a trabajadores sociales en ejercicio empleados en la…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…