La Plata National University is making a great effort to support and encourage scientific, technologic and artistic research and innovation, maintaining its quality, as well as the development and knowledge transference that benefit society and generate new scientific, technologic and…

Odisea: Discurso y Narrativa, by Graciela Zecchin de Fasano, is the most sophisticated and convincing interpretation known to me concerning the varied and complex roles played by direct speech in Homer’s epic. In this wide-ranging and lucidly written work, Dra.…

El traspaso de la Modernidad a la Modernidad tardía ha supuesto sustanciales cambios en la economía y en la sociedad toda, que se han traducido en el traspaso de una sociedad incluyente a otra excluyente. Paralelamente, en el ámbito criminológico,…

This study investigates an approach of knowledge discovery and data mining in insufficient databases. An application of Computational Taxonomy analysis demonstrates that the approach is effective in such a data mining process. The approach is characterized by the use ot…

La historia del conocimiento que el mundo mediterráneo, primero Grecia y luego Roma,
tuvo de la India, comienza en forma paulatina con la llegada, por ejemplo, de objetos de
marfil. A partir de la expedición de Alejandro, tiempo en el…

El concepto de misericordia divina ha pasado por diversos estadios en su evolución, pero las concepciones de la religión cristiana y de la religión pagana no siempre se oponen. En este artículo se examinan las fuentes filosóficas (Aristóteles, filosofía helenística),…

El punto de partida de la presente investigación sobre el significado y la función que la mimesis tiene en el pensamiento de Aristóteles está dado por la adopción de una perspectiva de estudio "amplia", i.e. no restringida a la esfera…

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.

In this paper, we build on previous work on Belief Revision operators based on the use of logic programming with Answer Set semantics as a representation language. We present a set of postulates for Answer Set Revision with respect to…

This paper addresses the problem of contour line extraction from scanned topographic maps in poor condition. A novel method is developed, using knowledge of cartography and graphics to extract contours by removing other layers which overlay the contours, and reconstructing…