The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. UML supports the most typical software modeling problems; however, due to the diversity of software development domains, there may be…

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to…

Las poblaciones de altura se desarrollan en ambientes determinados por la disminución de la presión de oxígeno en el aire, a la que se suman características climáticas extremas, como intensa radiación solar, bajas temperaturas con gran amplitud térmica, extremada aridez…

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…

Clustering of short texts is an important research area because of its applicability in information retrieval and text mining. To this end was proposed CLUDIPSO, a discrete Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm to cluster short texts. Initial results showed that CLUDIPSO…

One of the main concerns is the nature of the missing values. Let’s consider extremes for simplicity. If missing at random we have not to care about. But if missing shows structures that covariate with substantive variables we have to…

El proyecto actual expone el diseño y la implementación de un prototipo de estación meteorológica remota, para el Observatorio Astronómico de Quito (O.A.Q.), con la finalidad de obtener información meteorológica del medio ambiente. De esta manera, esta dependencia de la…

This work describes two media converter prototypes for transmitting 10Mb/s & 100Mb/s Ethernet data over large core (1mm) Step-Index Polymer Optical Fiber (SI-POF). In terms of reach, both prototypes greatly outperform previously published results and current commercial media converters based…

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As the research literature on the protists continues to grow, new data -- especially of an ultrastructural or molecular nature -- are accumulating that bear directly on the systematics (as well as evolution and phylogeny) of these biologically diverse forms…