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…

En este trabajo se formula una propuesta de arquitectura de integración entre sistemas de descubrimiento de conocimiento (adquisición automática) y sistemas basados en conocimiento (sistemas expertos). Se formulan consideraciones sobre la viabilidad de implementación de dicha arquitectura en función de…

En los últimos años han surgido numerosas propuestas de modelos y herramientas de gestión del conocimiento que tienen como objetivo administrar y almacenar el conocimiento organizacional. Sin embargo, la mayoría de ellas almacena el conocimiento en forma no estructurada o…

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…

“La tecnología KDD está basada en un bien definido proceso KDD de múltiples pasos, para el descubrimiento de conocimiento en grandes colecciones de datos. El proceso KDD es iterativo por naturaleza, y depende de la interacción para la toma de…

Metrics used on development of expert systems is not a well investigated problem area. This article suggests some metrics to be used to measure the maturity of the conceptualization process and the complexity of the decision process in the problem…

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…

A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…