This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.

Current approaches to generation for machine translation make use of direct-replacement templates, large grammars, and knowledge-based inferencing techniques. Not only are rules language-specific, but they are too simplistic to handle sentences that exhibit more complex phenomena. Furthermore, these systems are…

Los textos sánscritos de la India son considerados las obras literarias más antiguas de la humanidad. Representan la
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Articulo presentado en la 7th Conference on Open Access, In this paper, we describe our decade-long experience of building and operating one of the most active Institutional
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In recent years we have seen a confluence of science and technology that portends great impact to business strategy and product development. Just as physicists, chemists and biologists have extended their knowledge to other fields in pursuit of their own…

The Phase Space is a powerful tool for representing and reasoning about the qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. Significant physical phenomena of the dynamical system---periodicity, recurrence, stability and the like---are reflected by outstanding geometric features of the trajectories in…

El tratamiento estadístico de información cuantitativa ha sido realizado tradicionalmente a través de medidas descriptivas de tendencia central, de posición y dispersión o variabilidad, así como análisis de correlación y regresión. Sin embargo, en el campo de las ciencias ambientales,…

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There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. The limited success in actually doing this stems not from any resistance to the idea, nor from any lack…

Banking channel management has become a crucial component in the drive for improved efficiency. Since the channel is the interlocutor between customers and products, banks are leveraging their knowledge of channels to efficiently address perfect product portfolio through the most…