Los docentes universitarios apelan al uso de herramientas web 2.0 para facilitar o mejorar el dictado de sus materias. De acuerdo con la bibliografía analizada, estas incorporaciones no son sistemáticas. Las herramientas son incorporadas paulatinamente a la práctica docente pero,…

Myrciaria floribunda (H.West ex Willd.) O.Berg, Myrtaceae, popularly known as “camboim amarelo”, was collected in Restinga de Jurubatiba (RJ, Brazil). Leaves, stems and flowers were individually submitted to hydrodistillation, affording the respective essential oils. Monoterpenes were the main group of…

A solution of problems in multiagent systems involves representing beliefs of agents immersed in dynamic environments. Observation-based Defeasible Logic Programming (ODeLP) is an argument-based logic programming language that is used to represent an agent’s knowledge in the context of a…

En este trabajo se analizan los símbolos y representaciones del proceso de gestación entre los tobas de la provincia de Formosa poniendo especial énfasis en sus transformaciones e interrelaciones con las instituciones y representaciones biomédicas. Se considera el simbolismo del…

Este trabajo pretende contribuir, desde una perspectiva histórico demográfica, al conocimiento del sector indígena de la población rionegrina ubicada en el ámbito mesetario extendido al sur de los ríos Limay y Negro, entre 1885 y 1920. En el marco del…

Parallel machine scheduling, involves the allocation of jobs to the system resources (a bank of machines in parallel). A basic model consisting of m machines and n jobs is the foundation of more complex models. Here, jobs are allocated according…

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…