El presente artículo empieza por referir la existencia de abogados inescrupulosos que
públicamente ofrecen sus servicios a personas que sugieren podría beneficiarse
económicamente con una demanda judicial por mala praxis médica, imputable a
tratamiento impropio o negligencia.
Procedimientos de esa…

La discusión chilena actual sobre educación dirige de nuevo la atención sobre la valoración del rol profesional docente. La nueva Ley General de Educación propone abrir el campo de la docencia a profesionales que no se hayan formado en pedagogía.…

Entre los procesos de cambio planteados en la sociedad venezolana actual han cobrado un papel
importante las organizaciones de la sociedad civil orientadas por la economía social, prestándoles
mayor apoyo a las Cooperativas a partir de la entrada en vigencia…

Este trabalho mostra uma forma de pensar concorrente. São utilizados algoritmos de grafos, algoritmo do menor caminho, para mostrar desde a especificação até a implementação de algoritmos concorrentes. Objetiva-se mostrar uma outra forma de ensinar a concorrência, sua teoria, propriedades…

The aim of this work is to study an argumentation-based formalism that an agent could use for constructing plans. Elsewhere we have introduced a formalism for agents to represent knowledge about their environment in Defeasible Logic Programming, and a set…

The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general medical reasoning, and outlines the design of a computational model of common…

Many systems have been developed for constructing decision trees from collections of examples. Although the decision trees generated by these methods are accurate and efficient, they often suffer the disadvantage of excessive complexity that can render them incomprehensible to experts.…

This is a partial theory of thinking, combining a number of classical and modern concepts from psychology, linguistics, and AI. Whenever one encounters a new situation (or makes a substantial change in one's viewpoint) he selects from memory a structure…

A key problem in model-based object recognition is selection, namely, the problem of isolating regions in an image that are likely to come from a single object. This isolation can be either based solely on image data (data-driven) or can…