En este trabajo, escrito como un ensayo se persigue explicar la teoría desarrollada por Michel de Certeau, la cual envuelve el problema de la historia y las posibilidades de conocimiento con fundamento en el concepto de “verdad” y creencia. La…

Los modelos gráficos probabilísticos, tales como las redes bayesianas y los diagramas de influencias permiten representar de forma coherente el conocimiento de un dominio bajo condiciones de incertidumbre. Están basados en los fundamentos de la teoría de la probabilidad y…

Background: Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

A grande maioria dos Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Aprendizagem predominantemente em uso no ensino com suporte computacional são estáticos e lineares, ou seja, apresentam o mesmo conteúdo instrucional para os diversos estudantes sem considerar o nível de aquisição de conhecimentos…

The paper presents a case study illustrating a collaborative problem solving process in Virtual Communities of Practice. The process relies on the existence of an underlying shared knowledge base – a repository of resources, and is carried out collaboratively by…

En este trabajo se presentan los objetivos y alcances del proyecto de investigación AP/048416/11, “TIC Y Formación Web 2.0 para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Sostenible”, financiado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) y…

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…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

The theory change area have defined several operators trying to model the dynamic of knowledge. The goal of this work is to introduce a preprocessor of perceptions that could be part of an agent. The purpose of the preprocessor is…