La acogida en el debate internacional de los Conocimientos Tradicionales, confirma, si no su
configuración como modalidad de los derechos de Propiedad Intelectual, la gestación y rediseño
de nuevos escenarios de disputa en torno a las creaciones del intelecto humano.…

El agua es un bien abundante en el planeta Tierra y los seres humanos son su principal agente contaminante, en detrimento de su calidad de vida. Incluida la Constitución Nacional, la normativa venezolana es abundante en disposiciones legales para obligar…

Cuestionario empleado en el estudio sobre uso, conocimiento y percepción de Internet en la vida cotidiana de los estudiantes; este cuestionario ha sido empleado con alumnos con diferentes perfiles (edad y estudios) y de diferentes países., Questionnaire used in the…

The construction of expert problem-solving systems requires the development of techniques for using modular representations of knowledge without encountering combinatorial explosions in the solution effort. This report describes an approach to dealing with this problem based on making some knowledge…

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…

This paper studies the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to the study of language and the representation of the underlying knowledge which supports the comprehension process. It develops the view that intelligence is based on the ability to use large amounts…

This article provides an overview of initial discussions emerging from the Creative Methods Network, an informal organisation concerned with the use of the creative arts in research, teaching and practice in health and social care. Key issues are presented and…

This report describes a domain independent reasoning system. The system uses a frame-based knowledge representation language and various reasoning techniques including constraint propagation, progressive refinement, natural deduction and explicit control of reasoning. A computational architecture based on active objects which…

Las deficiencias socioeconómicas del país y la crisis económica mundial actual generan una gran preocupación en los indicadores sociales, debido a que los grupos más vulnerables a estas dificultades según estudios son las mujeres y los niños. Una de las…

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…