Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

The development of a data warehouse (DW) system is based on a conceptual multidimensional model, which provides a high level of abstraction in accurately and expressively describing real-world situations. Once this model is designed, the corresponding logical representation must be…

Data mining is one of the most important analysis techniques to automatically extract knowledge from large amount of data. Nowadays, data mining is based on low-level specifications of the employed techniques typically bounded to a specific analysis platform. Therefore, data…

Games such as marbles, knucklebones, triangle, hopscotch and ring-based games are played in modern times in Mediterranean countries, but they date back to the 5th century BC, and are mentioned by Alcibiades. Taking as a basis these interesting facts, we…

Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is a widely used technique to separate binary azeotropic mixtures into their components. One of its most important applications is the dehydration of ethanol, which is blended with gasoline to obtain automobile fuel. Among all the compounds…

This paper surveys the problems of identity in a number of Shakespeare’s plays, such as The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello.…

Los escritos de época, generalmente libros de viajeros y de científicos, son una fuente
de conocimiento valiosa para el saber geográfico de las regiones o países que se relatan. Y en el caso de descripciones científicas, además, denotan el grado…

Recently, existing design methodologies targeting traditional Web applications have been extended for Rich Internet Application modeling support. These extended methodologies currently cover the traditionally well-established design concerns, i.e. data and navigation design, and provide additional focus on user interaction and…

A lo largo de la última década se está produciendo un crecimiento vertiginoso tanto del desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías móviles inteligentes (dispositivos Smartphone y Tablet) como de su uso (a través de gran cantidad de aplicaciones). Por otro lado, en…

La mentira en el lenguaje se ha estudiado desde la perspectiva de varias disciplinas, siendo la más reciente la minería de opiniones. En este contexto, el presente estudio persigue explorar los rasgos sintomáticos de la mentira en lengua escrita en…