This paper provides lessons learned and some unexpected transformations in the learning process when advanced collaboration technology was used to overcome limitations of a popular, existing collaboration technology. The activities pursued in these advanced undergraduate and graduate computer and information…

It becomes perceptible that each day more companies make use of e-learning for the capacity of its workers. During a congress in the e-learning area it has been noticed the increase in corporative e-learning cases. These cases show that there…

Although current literature on learning styles shows that matching a teacher’s instructional style with the learning styles of students affects performance in a classroom environment, little is known about the influence of learning styles in online interaction. The paper argues…

El proceso de Educción de Requisitos para Proyectos de Explotación de Información, contempla la realización de un conjunto de plantillas que se utilizan para documentar los conceptos educidos durante las primeras fases del proyecto. Por otro lado, la Ingeniería del…

Os textos de Edgar Morin, implicita e explicitamente, trazem influências filosóficas diversas. Possuem uma unidade, através da concepção do Paradigma da Complexidade.
Tal intertextualidade será o objeto de estudo do presente ensaio, com uma abordagem qualitativa e transdisciplinar, para que…

In this paper, we present an approach to student's evaluation in a well-defined domain based on a semantic network. A similarity matrix based on the semantic memory structure of humans is used to build a semantic distance model in order…

Most formalisms for representing common-sense knowledge allow incomplete and potentially inconsistent information. When strong negation is also allowed, contradictory conclusions can arise. A criterion for deciding between them is needed. The aim of this paper is to investigate an inherent…

En el siguiente trabajo se expone una propuesta metodológica para la enseñanza de sistemas cinemáticos y su modelización a través de herramientas informáticas. Para ello se incorpora a la resolución teórica de problemas, su implementación a través de un software…

Defeasible argumentation is one of the approaches that attempt to address the challenges arising when we reason defeasibly, with several formalisms in the literature reaching a mature state. Nowadays, several of them started shifting their semantics towards a dialectical characterization.…

Inside an organization there is information that can only be generated by people, then, when a decision maker in any time and anywhere of an organization requires this information, he/she has to solicit it to who has the ability of…