//// Abstract: In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive…

Argumentative formalisms have been widely recognized as knowledge representation and reasoning tools able to deal with incomplete and potentially contradictory informa- tion. All such formalisms are computationally demanding. Hence, optimizing argumen- tative systems has been approached from di erent views.

El estrés oxidativo juega un papel importante como cofactor en la patogénesis del virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH). Los individuos infectados con VIH desarrollan además deficiencia en micronutrientes antioxidantes que recrudecen aún más el estado redox. En la era…

Las plantas medicinales y sus preparaciones farmacéuticas tienen cada vez mayor aceptación por parte del personal de salud y de la población en general. Su utilización se concentra fundamentalmente en la Atención Primaria de Salud, donde contribuyen a resolver muchos…

This work extends the semantics and implementation of fuzzy prolog presented in [VGM02] in order to include Default Knowledge capability. The new semantic allows non-uniform default assumptions and has Closed World Assumption (CWA) and Open World Assumption (OWA) as particular…

//// Abstract: My purpose in this essay is to bring to light the role played by experience in the justification process of empirical knowledge. Contemporary debate is dominated by two antagonistic sides: on one extreme we have the foundationalist empiricists…

In a production system it is usual to stress minimum tardiness to achieve higher client satisfaction.
According to the client relevance, job processing costs and requirements, and various other considerations, a weight is assigned to each job. An important, non-trivial,…

A multi-agent system is made up of multiple interacting autonomous agents. It can be viewed as a society in which each agent performs its activity cooperating to achieve common goals, or competing for them. They establish dialogues via some kind…

One of the key aspects in the design of an architecture for autonomous agents is the way in which beleifs are revised in the face of new information. An intelligent agent must be prepared to handle new information (be it…

El análisis actual sobre las profesiones se centra en su relación con la estructura
social, las organizaciones y la política, de tal manera que las tendencias más recientes
están configurando su estudio sobre la base del conocimiento abstracto y de…