Issues related to maternal mortality have generated a lot of empirical and theoretical information. However, despite the amount of work published on the topic, maternal mortality continues to occur at high rates and solutions to the problem are still not…

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to…

Although researchers noted the importance of effective communication among stakeholders, it continues to be a challenge for requirements engineering. Communication can be considered as a management tool since communication allows organisation’s personnel to produce a cohesive enterprise view. In this…

Today software solutions are often modeled using UML. Design patterns are frequently instantiated within these particular solutions. However, in several situations, UML is not expressive enough to describe them properly.
UML profiles extend UML syntax and semantic in order to…

A pesar de la reciente disminución de la mortalidad, la enfermedad cardiaca coronaria continúa siendo la principal causa de muerte en EEW. La mayoría de estas muertes ocurren súbitamente y fuera del hospital. Hay evidencias de que la reanimación cardiopulmonar…

We describe the design, implementation and deployment of the multi-level agent-based system architecture developed for the SEWASIE project. The aim of the system is to help the user in querying heterogeneous data sources which are integrated by means of ontologies.…

Most information in science, engineering and business has been recorded in form of text. This information can be found online in the World-Wide-Web. One of the major tools to support information access are the search engines which usually use information…

A Federated System is a collection of independent, cooperative, possibly heterogeneous and autonomous computer systems (usually database systems) which allows sharing all or some of its data. A Service-Oriented Architecture is an application architecture whose functionalities are defined as independent…

Since huge amounts of spatial data can be easily collected from various applications, ranging from remote sensing technology to geographical information system, the extraction and comprehension of spatial knowledge is a more and more important task. Many excellent studies on…

Rinovirus y Enterovirus (polio, coxsackie, echovirus) son los dos tipos de picornavirus responsables del alto número de infecciones virales en humanos como el resfrío (o la gripe). Datos de Relación Estructura Actividad sobre antivirales indica que los heterociclos nitrogenados están…