Information systems play an ever-increasing key role in our society. In particular, data intensive applications are in constant demand and there is need of computing environments with much more intelligent capabilities than those present in today’s Data-base Management Systems (DBMS).…

Most of the current wireless sensor networks are built for specific applications, with a tight coupling between them and the underlying communication protocols. We present a more flexible architectural approach for building WSNs, in which application-specific features are decoupled from…

Current interactive multimedia learning software can not be accessed by learners with disabilities. This is the case for students with vision disabilities. Modeling techniques are necessary to map real world experiences to virtual worlds by using 3D auditory representations of…

Over the last several years, multidimensional data modeling has had several proposals for its formalisation; on the other hand, the incorporation of fuzzy logic in databases has increased the need to represent uncertainty.
However, to our knowledge, so far projects…

Hoy en día, se puede afirmar, que las organizaciones que son innovadoras son aquellas que construyen y gestionan efectivamente sus recursos intangibles. Así, aparece la necesidad ineludible de proporcionar a las organizaciones los conocimientos que necesitan, donde los necesiten, cómo…

Se podría pensar que la innovación es un proceso irregular que no se puede sistematizar. Hay organizaciones que no lo consideran de este modo, e intentan asegurar una gestión regular en el proceso de innovación. Sin embargo esta gestión no…

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,…

Argumentation systems have substantially evolved in the past few years, resulting in adequate tools to model
some forms of common sense reasoning. This has sprung a new set of argument-based applications in diverse
areas.
In previous work, we defined how…

Este artigo apresenta um algoritmo Cultural Extendido para o problema do Despacho Econômico. O Algoritmo Cultural têm cinco categorias de conhecimento. Este trabalho visa demonstrar a aplicação do conhecimento histórico, que objetiva monitorar a busca e armazenar os eventos importantes…

While entertainment web forums provide a dynamic medium for interaction, not many researchers feel the need to go deeply into the contents.
One of the reasons behind this attitude lies on a widely perceived assumption that web forums do not…