Cultural differences play a very important role in matching computer interfaces to the expectations of users from different national and cultural backgrounds. But to date, there has been little systematic research as to the extent of such differences, and how…

Se realiza un análisis de la importancia que posee la Zona No - Saturada en el conocimiento de los fenómenos hidrológicos en llanuras, por radicarse en ese ámbito los más significativos en la fase terrestre del ciclo hidrológico (evapotranspiración e…

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar a percepção ambiental dos moradores do bairro Jardim Tangará, localizado na porção leste do município de São Carlos, São Paulo. Dentre os aspectos socioambientais abordados, deu-se ênfase á nascente localizada no bairro. Realizou-se…

Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…

The goal of this work involves the developing of an argumentation-based formalism that an agent could use for constructing plans. In this formalism, agents will have certain knowledge about the world, and a set of actions that they will be…

La siguiente investigación profundiza en el conocimiento de los procesos de trabajo de los trabajadores sociales en la contemporaneidad Argentina. A partir de un trabajo de campo, encuestas y entrevistas en profundidad a trabajadores sociales en ejercicio empleados en la…

This work describes the ontology construction process for the development of an Intelligent System for the Organization and Retrieval of Knowledge in Biodiversity – SISBIO. The system aims at the production of strategic information for the biofuel chain Two main…

Information Retrieval Systems normally deal with keywordbased technologies. Although those systems reach satisfactory results, they aren’t able to answer more complex queries done by users, especially those directly in natural language. To do that, there are the KnowledgeBased Systems, which…

The design of intelligent agents is a key issue for many applications. Although there is no universally accepted de nition of intelligence, a notion of rational agency has been proposed as an alternative for the characterization of intelligent agency.
Modeling…