Framework comprehension is a very limiting factor to take full advantage of the benefits that frameworks offer to increase quality and productivity in software development. In this paper, a reverse engineering approach to framework comprehension using the MetaExplorer tool is…

As a part of a taxonomic revision of Ethesia Raf., a new species, E. tanquana Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo, is described from the Tanqua Karoo in South Africa. This new species is at first sight similar to E. haalenbergensis (U.Müll.-Doblies &…

Time and change are notions that seems unavoidable in some areas of work and investigation, languages that can deal with these notions are necessary. At the same time, methods for a proper time handling are quite complex, mainly because problem’s…

Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales,UNAM

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named RISKICG. This tool is
still in development, but it can provide damage results and economic losses for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the…

A Federated System is a collection of independent, cooperative, possibly heterogeneous and autonomous computer systems (usually database systems) which allows sharing all or some of its data. A Service-oriented Architecture is an application architecture whose functionalities are defined as independent…

Faunistic data of 64 species of Phygadeuontini from Bulgaria are reported. Of them, 27 species are new records for Bulgarian fauna. Zoogeographical considerations about all listed species are given., En el presente artículo se ofrecen nuevos datos faunísticos sobre 64…

The genus Acroleucus Stål from México is revised. Two new species A. calvatus and A. tensus are described and illustrated. New distribution records are presented, as well as comments on the host plants for some of the species. A revised…

Los resultados obtenidos mediante el Análisis Canónico en 32
muestras poblacionales pertenecientes a 24 taxones, que corresponden
a 14 grupos de Bechyné (1948), proporcionan pruebas acerca del
estado taxonómico y evolutivo en múltiples taxones de Timarcha. Los
datos biométricos se…

Nowadays, data intensive applications are in constant demand and there is need of computing environments with better intelligent capabilities than those present in today's Database Management Systems (DBMS). To build such systems we need formalisms that can perform complicate inferences,…