This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education, health…

The work carried out in the thesis describes efficient virtual environments management. One of the main contributions is a middleware scheduling optimization based on Grid environments. Being the overall goal to get an optimal resource selection plus a coordinate task…

In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program -the Programa Jefes de Hogar (PJH)- that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, giving the difficulties in monitoring informal jobs,…

En este trabajo se analiza la emergencia de sistemas de educación de gran escala en un marco donde el crecimiento se asocia con cambios en la configuración de la economía. Se modelan los incentivos que le elite económica puede tener…

The goal of this work was centered in the graph visualization. The hope is that the extra dimension would give, literally, more space, and that this would ease the problem of displaying large structures. In spite of their apparent simplicity,…

This thesis describes the design, implementation and evaluation of FPGA Architecture of a Digital ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) by using four components: data memory, weights memory, neuron module, and control unit. All these components have a generic orthogonal structure in…

In this thesis, we emphasized the need to use multiple node-disjoint paths between a given source and destination. The use of node-disjoint paths not only allows different paths to share the traffic, but also provides fault-tolerance to some extent. However,…

This thesis observes the emerging trend of convergence of control with computing and communication. By exploiting control and scheduling codesign, we study some practical and open problems in RTCSs from a unique viewpoint of dynamic resource management. Considering constraints on…

For centuries, experimentation has been at the center of all successful scientific studies. Experimental explorations can offer new perceptions, weed out unproductive approaches and validate theories and practices. Computer Science (CS), as a discipline, has a poor record when it…

In this Ph. D thesis, the main significant contributions are: formulation of a new non-linear membership function using fuzzy approach to capture and describe vagueness in the technological coefficients of constraints in the industrial production planning problems [1-3]. This non-linear…