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…

We discuss how data mining, patternbases and databases can be integrated into inductive databases, which make data mining an inductive query process. We propose a software architecture for such inductive databases, and extend this architecture to support the clustering of…

We present a socially inspired approach that allows agents in Multi-Agent Systems to speed up their own learning process through communication. Thereby, they are able to trade off impact of knowledge by mutation dependent on the recent performance of the…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

2008

Para la adecuada aplicación de los cuidados
enfermeros es necesario el conocimiento
antropológico de las personas a las que van
dirigidos. Concretando en las personas ostomizadas
debemos evidenciar los cambios, modificaciones
y trastornos producidos por la nueva situación
(ser portador…

The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

The terminology of Right is an age long undertaking of the human mind, by means of which it
has tried to respond to the necessities, progressively more complex and marked by multiple tensions.
This paper has dedicated the first section…

Data from a network of experiments conducted during 1998 for 25 maize cultivars and 30 hybrids cultivated in 19 and 16 different environments, respectively, in the states of Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia, Brazil, were…

Introduction: The use of computer-generated 3-dimensional (3-D) anatomical models to teach anatomy has proliferated. However, there is little evidence that these models are educationally effective. The purpose of this study was to test the educational effectiveness of a computer-generated 3-D…