Este artículo presenta un estudio comparado de varios métodos de predicción de pausas, usando el mismo corpus etiquetado. Algunos métodos propuestos
por otras publicaciones sobre el tema son probados, combinando algunas técnicas
previas para aprovechar sus principales ventajas. Un nuevo…

In order to apply HAZUS methodology to a real seismic risk study outside USA, the
Oslo municipality was chosen as study region. The civil institutions were asked for neccesary information and we were provided with different ASCII and Arcview files…

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named HAZUSICG.
Obviously this tool is still in development but it can provided damage results for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the essential facilities…

Las listas de palabras con sus frecuencias se usan ampliamente en muchos procedimientos de agrupamiento y categorización de textos. Usualmente para la compilación de tales listas se usan las aproximaciones basadas en morfología (como el stemmer de Porter) para unir…

When performing vulnerability analysis and in absence of statistical data about vulnerability of some types of widespread buildings, unique structures, historical monuments etc, the development of numerical methods and approaches of evaluation and identification of vulnerability grade is shown as…

Ontology mapping involves the task of finding similarities among overlapping sources by using ontologies. In a Federated System in which distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous information sources must be integrated, ontologies have emerged as tools to solve semantic heterogeneity problems. In…

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…

We present point slicing, a new slicing technique for imperative programs that gives an answer to the question Which sentences can be executed if sentence p is executed?, very common in program testing, debugging, and understanding tasks and, as far…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

In this paper, we present a UML profile and a group of UML patterns for documenting the component-and-connector views of software architectures [8]. They facilitate the creation of the component and connector viewtype in any UML 2.0 tool with a…