Nowadays information circulates quickly in a human organization, what generates an internal difficulty in preserving inside the organization essential information to support decision-making. Decision Support Systems (DSS) aiding organizational decision-making, had, up to now, rigid inferences machines restricted to the…

The problem of speeding up ínference has proved to be important in argumentative systems. When computing dialectical structures, several paths are searched (called argumentation lines), many of which will eventually prove useless. Morover, the performance of backward chainers degrades quickly…

An account of a recasting of a theoretical model of integrated lives from a model of collective capability - a theoretical model rooted in Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, in order to make sense of the way that adult early childhood…

This paper deals with lifelong learning. Based on a three-year case study it provides evidence of innovations in this area. The paper aims to add to the body of work in blended learning by providing evidence of knowledge, persuasion, decision,…

Las Enfermedades Profesionales han sido en el mundo laboral un tema de interés y en el Ecuador ha tenido un especial desenvolvimiento en los últimos 11 años. Cada vez es más importante el cuidado de la salud de los trabajadores,…

A decade before there was getting up the ‘Atlantic Wall’, there was executed a system of defenses along the Mediterranean coast in Spain (1936-39). The recovery of the same constructions (both of his graphical documents and of the constructed works…

The goal of this article is to present the first results of a study looking forward to propose a model of software development for a physically distributed environment (United States and Brazil). Thus, the objective is to combine empirical and…

The aim of this paper is to present an historical compendium of ISTEC’s activities in the region, highlighting its core ideas and principles, and how these have been successfully applied for the benefit of many higher education institutions. These aim…

The state of psychology as a knowledge discipline is examined. Some reflections are made about the application of psychological knowledge, taking into account: a) the nature of knowledge being applied, b) the translation of analytic knowledge typical of basic science,…

Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser dans quelle mesure le nouveau champ multidisciplinaire récemment créé, Public Health Genomics (PHG), fait preuve de rhétorique. La rhétorique sera examinée, au sens propre, comme art de bien parler, mais aussi, au sens actuel…