Sierra Leone is in transition to peace and development, from a previous decade long civil war. Educated Muslim women appear to have a great deal of expression, interest and passion to offer the process. The study investigates the new emerging…

El trabajo de titulación está enfocado a diagnosticar los factores internos que puedan generar conflictos en el Comando General del Ejército ecuatoriano y propuesta de un plan de comunicación institucional orientado a evitar que estos factores desemboquen en crisis que…

Little is known about how HIV/AIDS affects people with disabilities, although international literature suggests that people with learning disabilities and other disabilities may be at increased vulnerability to HIV infection. One factor that increases vulnerability to HIV is the lack…

Michel Foucault, Thomas Mann, and more recently, Sven-Olov Wallenstein have argued that the modern European hospital of the early twentieth century acted as a research laboratory for a new way of governing human populations. This dissertation studies a subsequent phase…

El éxito en la búsqueda de conocimiento a partir de grandes cantidades de datos radica en la calidad de los mismos. Hasta ahora los aspectos de calidad de los datos se han enfocado principalmente a la limpieza de los datos:…

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…

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…

Current interactive multimedia learning software can not be accessed by learners with disabilities. This is the case for students with vision disabilities. Modeling techniques are necessary to map real world experiences to virtual worlds by using 3D auditory representations of…

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…