This thesis is concerned with the systematic investigation and application of knowledge within the architectural design studio. The thesis takes, as a point of departure in the development of architectural epistemology, a model of knowledge developed by Yehuda Elkana, in…

The Listener is an automated system that unintrusively performs knowledge acquisition from informal input. The Listener develops a coherent internal representation of a description from an initial set of disorganized, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and possibly inconsistent statements. The Listener can…

The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…

This paper describes a method for limiting vibration in flexible systems by shaping the system inputs. Unlike most previous attempts at input shaping, this method does not require an extensive system model or lengthy numerical computation; only knowledge of the…

Explanation-based learning occurs when something useful is retained from an explanation, usually an account of how some particular problem can be solved given a sound theory. Many real-world explanations are not based on sound theory, however, and wrong things may…

The essay is about the use of the forms el y este / ese / aquel before nouns and
adjectives which begin with stressed /a-/. General approach to this problem appears
included in the Academic Grammar very clearly, but varieties…

In this article it's analysed in a critical way the principal hypothesis that along
the tropological history have been supported in diverse methodological forms.
In the same way, it's tried to look for an unitary treatment to the different
tropological…

So as to answer the questions which arise when we approach the topic of how
language works, and where the sender and the receiver are totally involved, we have
tried to list the determining factors in a successful communication.
If…

Se estudia un total de 42 especies del género Cheilosia, de las cuales tres: Cheilosia faucis
Becker, Cheilosia gagatea Loew y Cheilosia ahenae Von Roser, son nuevas para la entomofauna
ibérica. Se confirma la presencia en la misma de Cheilosia…