Concept maps are graphical representations of relationships among concepts that can be an effective tool for teaching, designing, and organizing information in a variety of library settings. Concept maps can be used wherever training or formal teaching occurs as a…

Esta investigación enfatiza la importancia del conocimiento matemático del profesorado para garantizar una educación matemática continua. Desde esta perspectiva de continuidad se explora el papel del docente de matemáticas en la transición de primaria a secundaria, un contexto especialmente adecuado…

This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric thought not only penetrated into fundamental areas…

Esta tesis presenta una particularización de la Gestión del Conocimiento Matemático al caso de la Topología Algebraica.
La Gestión del Conocimiento Matemático es una rama de las Ciencias de la Computación cuyo principal objetivo consiste en desarrollar asistentes para…

Nowadays large systems are viewed in terms of the services that they offer and the entities that interact to provide or consume these services. Open multi-agent systems, where agents can enter or leave the system, interact and dynamically form groups…

With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…

Software technology is creating a ubiquitous context for human living and learning in which new modes of interaction are gradually being incorporated. At the same time, interaction with Internet-based learning systems has evolved from using the traditional access from a…

This dissertation sets out to examine the conceptual domains of CHANGE and
POSSESSION by selecting two main verbal classes, namely entity-specific change-ofstate verbs for the domain of CHANGE and contribute verbs for that of POSSESSION.
The most important step consisted…

Following a classical conception of Artificial Intelligence (one that aims a definition of cognitive mechanisms and their implementation in computers), this thesis explores the problem of knowledge organization. In particular, it draws attention to the linguistic and semantic memory, trying…