An application of Zadeh’s prototype theory in the Knowledge Acquisition process, is presented here, and as a practical example, to define a method for predicting the evolution of the forest fire occurrence-danger rate in INCEND-IA: A KBS for prediction and…

En este trabajo se propone una metodología para mejorar las predicciones de incendios forestales. Utilizando un simulador ya desarrollado, se utiliza un algoritmo genético para realizar una búsqueda efectiva de parámetros de entrada tal que estos parámetros logren una buena…

Most unsupervised indigenous knowledge (IK) are known to be very useful in combating critical health issues as well as being dangerous if the administration is abused. Despite the fact that these locally prepared herbal medicine are not encouraged to be…

James Reinders (Chief Evangelist of Intel® Software at Intel) and Jim Jeffers (Principal Engineer at Intel)
have gathered in this book the working knowledge of the people involved to prototype and productize the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor. This include…

Ensuring flexible and efficient manufacturing of customized products in an increasing dynamic and turbulent environment without sacrificing cost effectiveness, product quality and on-time delivery has become a key issue for most industrial enterprises. A promising approach to cope with this…

El presente artículo pretende aportar algunos conocimientos teóricos y empíricos sobre las profundas transformaciones del sector rural pampeano argentino, donde los cambios tecnológicos han impactado significativamente en la vida cotidiana y productiva como nunca antes en la historia. En particular,…

The evolution of Television as a source of information has reached the top of quality whith the Interactive Digital Television (TVDi), a technological step that allow users to become active from pasive. TVDi program is, on informatic terms, a software…

En este trabajo analizaremos comparativamente las ediciones en español y portugués de la
enciclopedia El Tesoro de la Juventud. Así como en varios países del mundo, las traducciones
de la enciclopedia The Book of Knowledge tuvieron enorme suceso editorial en…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

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…