Little has been written about the component provision problem (programming plans and domain concepts) for the repositories of knowledge in program understanding systems and reports that specifically address this issue are unknown. Model-driven and plan-driven approaches use repositories where construction…

A multiagent system (MAS) is made up of multiple interacting autonomous agents. It can be viewed as a society in which each agent performs its activity, cooperating to achieve common goals, or competing for them. Thus, every agent has the…

Uno de los grandes problemas de la educación a distancia soportada por computadora (e-learning) radica en que muchos de los estudiantes que inician un curso, se frustran, se sienten desmotivados, no logran asimilar los conocimientos y en consecuencia lo abandonan.…

El artículo aborda la problemática de la inserción en la formación profesional de los abogados de temáticas vinculadas con sectores vulnerables y su relación con el Derecho, en particular en lo que hace al sector campesino, la niñez y adolescencia…

El campo de la glicobiología incluye el estudio de los glicoconjugados, las enzimas que catalizan su síntesis y las lectinas que los reconocen. Los monosacáridos, que intervienen en su composición, pueden combinarse en varios puntos y form ar estructuras lineales…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

The information in this chapter is the result of a research carried out between 2001 and 2005 on Mbya Guarani communities in the province of Misiones (Argentina) focused on the study of health – illness processes in the first stages…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

This study investigates an approach of knowledge discovery and data mining in insufficient databases. An application of Computational Taxonomy analysis demonstrates that the approach is effective in such a data mining process. The approach is characterized by the use of…