Usualmente los estudios cuantitativos establecen distancia con los cualitativos, obedeciendo al criterio de que la cantidad se opone o, al menos, se diferencia del dato cualitativo; sin embargo, la historia de la historiografía, como rama del conocimiento en construcción, ha…

This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…

Combining numerical techniques with ideas from symbolic computation and with methods incorporating knowledge of science and mathematics leads to a new category of intelligent computational tools for scientists and engineers. These tools autonomously prepare simulation experiments from high-level specifications of…

This thesis proposes a methodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…

O tema central desta tese é o processo de aprendizagem organizacional transgeracional nas empresas familiares no qual se inserem as noções de tempo e de espaço que constituem a plataforma de conhecimentos considerando-se a influência do sistema geracional familiar e…

A modern electrical system requires constant and in many cases great investment, as to keep more efficient quality pointers, we have considered CONELEC as a regulator of this. CONELEC has given rules which make the distributors steadily improve those quality…

Decision making models for autonomous agents are recently receiving increased attention, particularly in the feld of intelligent robots. This work presents a Defeasible Logic Programming approach to decision making in an environment with single and multiple robots. We will show,…

L'amélioration de la maitrise du français langue première chez les élèves du primaire au Québec dépend de plusieurs facteurs. L'enseignant peut jouer un rôle dans ce processus, sa formation universitaire lui fournissant les connaissances nécessaires afin d'encadrer le développement des…

Entre 100 et 140 millions de femmes, de petites filles et d’adolescentes sont excisées
(Andro et Lesclingrand, 2007). Les risques sanitaires de l’excision sont élevés et
concernent la santé reproductive, physique et psychologique des femmes. Les nouvelles
migrations et l’augmentation…

The notion of rational agency was proposed by Russell [9] as an alternative characterization of intelligence agency. Loosely speaking, an agent is said to be rational if it perfomns the right actions according to the information it possesses and the…