Ce mémoire traite du rôle des réseaux sociaux dans les trajectoires de vie des personnes qui vivent de l’aide sociale au Québec. La discrimination et la stigmatisation sont des processus émanant de rapports sociaux dans lesquels peuvent être inscrites ces…

When I first started reading Ms. Le Guin's novel, I was struck by the presence in it of what I then recognized as elements from Eastern philosophy and thought, in particular Taoism. Long before mention is made of the yin-yang…

Along with changes which occur in different social institutions in the world, education and particularly universities are enroute to adding an economic and a productive role to their cultural mission and knowledge. These changes are done by using information and…

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…

Much effort has been dedicated to provide a general model of agents working in complex environments. This research focuses on the high level cognition used in determining the behavior of the agent.
The language of the Situation Calculus represents a…

The design of intelligent agents is greatly influenced by the many different models that exist to represent knowledge. It is essential that such agents have computationally adequate mechanisms to manage its knowledge, which more often than not is incomplete and/or…

The members of the Academic Community have slowly placed themselves in the local and national scene. They work towards a universal educational goal. This requires the renewal of systems and strategies to create knowledge adaptable to the dynamic changes of…

Besides explicit sources carrying feedback, we notice the increasing importance of other implicit ways. In this article we analyse the different kinds of sources of a story-telling process. All through the course we analyse how two teachers tell and play…

Nuestro trabajo tiene como objetivo principal, la formulación de un modelo explicativo de la adquisición del aprendizaje complejo, y por extensión, del desarrollo inicial de la competencia
experta en un dominio específico. Modelo que tiene en cuenta los principales aspectos…

During the past few years, fabricated low-caloric foods (light or lite) have become very popular. Even though the Mexican Official Standard defines each of these products since 1994, Mexican consumers have not knowledge about their classification and proper use. This…