This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective
management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers?
management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows
that the level of own knowledge is critical for…

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge…

Muchos son los factores que determinan la dinámica de poblaciones de plantas entre los cuales hay demográficos (variabilidad ambiental,
densidad poblacional, etc.) y genéticos (variabilidad genética de los individuos, deriva genética y/o depresión por consanguinidad). Entender
los efectos de esos…

Malaria and diarrhea are major causes of illness and death in Africa. These preventable diseases take the biggest toll on children, mostly due to lack of education and adequate resources in the home. The purpose of the reported research project…

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…

PET is a nuclear medical examination which constructs a three-dimensional image of metabolism inside the body; in this article is particular, images are taken from the brain. The high complexity inherent to the interpretation of the brain images makes that…

When using tableaux algorithms to reason about Description Logics (DLs), new information is inferred from the models considered while trying to achieve knowledge satisfiability. By focusing the ontology change problem, we consider an environment where DLs are the logical formalization…

BACKGROUND:Global health research is essential for development. A major issue is the inequitable distribution of research efforts and funds directed towards populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. This imbalance is fostering major attempts at redirecting research to the health…

Esta comunicación describe la generación automática y la evaluación de conjuntos de
reglas para la desambiguación del sentido de las palabras (DSP) en la traducción automática. El
objetivo principal es identificar reglas de alta calidad que se pueden utilizar como…

En esta comunicación se propone un método para incorporar conocimiento
lingüístico relativo a las formas verbales en sistemas estocásticos de traducción. Por medio de una clasificación basada en conocimiento de dichas formas, y de
su sustitución por el lema del…