AbstractDue to aspect-oriented mechanisms explosion, their concepts arrive to distributed systems tackling concepts as security, persistence, or synchronization, especially in middleware approaches. Regarding distributed databases, the research has been focused mainly on object-oriented databases. Based on the great impact of…

Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe, mediante la utilización de una gran base de datos de más de 100 encuestas de hogares para el…

This document describes a research and development project - Semantic Web and Cooperative Problem Solving for Online Communities of Practice. The aim of the project is to build a system supporting Cooperative Problem Solving within the framework of online Communities…

El objetivo del proyecto Portal da Língua Portuguesa es construir, con un doble
objetivo, un juego de recursos léxicos. En primer lugar, estos recursos sirven como fuente de
información para una página web sobre la lengua portuguesa para el público…

Vertical partitioning, in which attributes of a relation are
assigned to partitions, is aimed at improving database
performance. We extend previous research that is based on
a single relation to multi-relation database environment,
by including referential integrity constraints, access time

Este documento explora la relación entre la distribución del ingreso, las instituciones y los conflictos en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el uso de una nueva base de datos de estadísticas de la distribución del ingreso calculado a partir…

Ensuring the correctness of a given software component has become a crucial aspect in Software Engineering and the Model Checking technique provides a fully automated way to achieve this goal. In particular, the usage of Model Checking in formal languages…

Electronic Government applications aim to deliver efficient, seamless, customer-focused services to the public using various distribution channels. One of challenges in building such applications is the requirement to rely upon preexisting, often heterogeneous government applications. In order to enable communication…

The development of languages allowing a proper handling of time is important in many areas of computer science because the capability to deal with the notions of change and time are essential to solve their problems.
In the development of…

Los así denominados Phone Log-Likelihood Ratios (PLLR), han sido introducidos como características alternativas a los MFCC-SDC para sistemas de Reconocimiento de la Lengua (RL) mediante iVectors. En este artículo, tras una breve descripción de estas características, se proporcionan nuevas evidencias…