Las siguientes páginas apuntan a marcar la incidencia de otros modos discursivos de la narrativa a partir de una dupla de narradoras que han producido un cierto impacto en la creación literaria de la última década del siglo XX. Estos…

This paper presents the Adesso, a computational environment for the development of scientific software. The Adesso environment leverages the reusable software component programming model to support the development and integration of components to several scientific programming platforms. The Adesso system…

Object-oriented software development has proven effective for systems development, but the creation of reusable and changeable software architectures is still a challenging task. Design patterns capture the expertise for reusable design solutions, but there is no methodical approach to providing…

The main objective of this paper centers on reviewing the evolution of Decision Support System´s (DSS) architectures, particularly as they apply to natural resources. Today it is difficult to conceive the existence of a rural planning automated system that doesn't…

Boundary extraction is an important procedure associated with recognition and interpretation tasks in digital image processing and computer vision. Most of the segmentation techniques are based on the detection of the local gradient, and then their application in noisy images…

It has been observed that research in mobile agent focused on the development of platforms and on the application of the concept. Network awareness is one of the applications of mobile agent, concerning of how agent determine and make the…

Water Resources Information Systems (WRIS) present different types of problems during the data storage and analysis phases, related with the complex nature of the environmental data spacio-temporal phenomena. There are many questions to deal with, such as geographic representation of…

The identification and classification of seeds are of major
technical and economical importance in the agricultural
industry. To automate these activities, like in ocular
inspection one should consider seed size, shape, color and
texture, which can be obtained from seed…

The authors present the Measurement Information Model and the Measurement Process Model, as well as guidelines based on their experience in order to apply these models to specific projects.

This book provides an excellent foundation for the principles of database and data management. It explains some of the more difficult concepts fairly well. The book is meant for an introductory course in database management which is usually required as…