The concept of “approximate” searching has applications in a vast number of fields. Some examples are non-traditional databases (e. g. storing images, fingerprints or audio clips, where the concept of exact search is of no use and we search instead…

Software engineering has entered a new era, the Internet and its associated technologies require a different conceptual framework for building and understanding software solutions.
Users ask to develop applications more rapidly, and software engineers need to ensamble systems from preexisting…

Knowledge-intensive processes are widely used to recover from errors, handle exceptional cases and complaints, and to improve or adapt a process itself. In this context, evolved Business-Process Reengineering (BPR) techniques are changing to give some answers to this reality. In…

When stakeholders are geographically distributed communication presents new challenges for software engineering community. In order to improve communication between stakeholders, we have previously proposed to apply learning style models to characterise the way people interact. In this work we enhance…

EQUIVALENCE OF SOME STRINGS. THESE ARE LOWERCASE VERUS UPPERCASE MATCHING, MORPHOLOGICAL INFLECTION, DERIVATION, AND SYNONYMY OF WORDS: E.G. GIVE A QUERY COMPUTER, FIND COMPUTER COMPUTING, WORKSTATION. THE LATTER PROBLEMS ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN LANGUAGES WITH RICHER MORPHOLOGY AND LESS STABLE…

This document describes a research and development project - Semantic Web and Cooperative Problem Solving for Online Communities of Practice. The aim of the project is to build a system supporting Cooperative Problem Solving within the framework of online Communities…

Today, one of the main challenges of the Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce solutions is to improve the business processes that organizations carry out with their suppliers and customers. B2B relationships require the management of public business processes, which span the organizational…

THE GOAL OF THIS PAPER IS TO DOCUMENT THE USE OF TIME SERIES IN COLOR MATCHING. ALTHOUGH TIME SERIES ARE NOT COMMONLY USED FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE RESULTS OBTAINED, BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SIMILARITY IN TIME SERIES USING THE…

El crecimiento continuo de la Internet ha permitido a las personas, alrededor de todo mundo, realizar transacciones en línea, buscar información o navegar usando el explorador de la Web. A medida que más gente se siente cómoda usando los exploradores…

Data integration is the process of unifying data sharing some common semantics but are originated from unrelated sources. In our work we consider these sources are autonomous, heterogeneous and they are physically distributed. These three characteristics make the integration task…