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We define an abstract argumentation framework that includes a binary symmetric relation representing argument conflicts, and a function used to evaluate conflicting arguments. In this framework it is clear how defeat rel...

Throughout comparative administrative law there is a concept that is not unequivocally labelled: public power, administrative power or public function. Nor is its semantic load the same in each legal system. This is why ...

Work-related extended availability (WREA) describes a state of being available for work matters while physically being in a different life domain. There is ample evidence for the negative effects of WREA, but moderator e...

The study extends personality and situational judgment test (SJT) research by using an SJT to measure achievement striving in a contextualized manner. Employed students responded to the achievement striving SJT, traditio...

The objective of this study is to perform a review and contextualize the existing definitions of educational quality from the managerial point of view. We will be presenting also the factors that have been considered to ...

Positive and negative-worded items affect respondents answering style in attitude surveys and have psychometric implications. This research was conducted to assess the wording effect on the validation of the Spanish adap...

O Direito Ambiental brasileiro foi estruturado, ao longo dos anos, principalmente via legislativa (Leis; Decretos-lei; Decretos; Cartas régias, Regimentos...) para regrar a conduta do cidadão em relação ao meio ambie...

"Program repair techniques attempt to fix programs by looking for patches within a search space of fix candidates. These techniques require a specification of the program to be repaired, used as an acceptance criterion f...

The rising complexity of distributed computer systems give reason to investigate self-organization mechanism to build systems that are self-managing in the sense of Autonomic and Organic Computing. In this paper we prop...

In the last decade several ways to formalize defeasible reasoning have been studied. A particular approach, defeasible argumentation, has been particularly successful to achieve this goal. The inference process of argum...

The bibliometrics data on the Argentinian soil quality index resulting from forages over the online scientific peer-reviewed articles Scopus, Science Direct, and Scielo gave a total result of 131 articles (N=131) from th...

In this work we analyze the problem of incorporating specificity to characterize defeat in a particular argumentative framework, called observation based defeasible logic programming (ODeLP) [1]. Eficiency is an importan...

To find a good termination criterion for genetic algorithms is a difficult and frequently ignored task. In most instances the practitioner stops the algorittm after a predefined number of generations or function evaluati...

Hodrick-Prescott filter has been the favourite empirical technique among researchers studying "cycles". Software facilities and the optimality criterion, from which the filter can be derived, can explain its wide use. Ho...

This paper intends to serve as a starting point for the discussion of a new perspective of territorial development. In accordance with Boisier, we understand the concept of territorial development as one related to the i...

Se analizó la localización óptima para un relleno sanitario mediante técnicas multicriterio en un SIG (Sistema de Información Geográfico), en los Distritos de Hernandarias, Ciudad del Este, Minga Guazú y President...

A job shop can be seen as a multi-operation model where jobs follows fixed routes, but not necessarily the same for each job. Job Shop Scheduling (JSS) attempts to provide optimal schedules according to some criterion. C...

Multiobjective optimization, also known as vector-valued criteria or multicriteria optimization, have long been used in many application areas where a problem involves multiple objectives, often conflicting, to be met or...

This paper presents the solution of a real-world constrained bi-objective mechanical design problem in presence of a dynamic constraint by using the Modified Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm. This algorithm, or...

We present point slicing, a new slicing technique for imperative programs that gives an answer to the question Which sentences can be executed if sentence p is executed?, very common in program testing, debugging, and un...

Numerical Taxonomy aims to group in clusters, using so-called structure analysis of operational taxonomic units (OTUs or taxons or taxa) through numerical methods. These clusters constitute families. Structural analysis...

Numerical Taxonomy aims to group in families, using so-called structure analysis of operational taxonomic units (OTUs or taxons or taxa). Clusters that constitute families with a new criterion, is the purpose of this se...

Numerical Taxonomy aims to group in clusters, using so-called structure analysis of operational taxonomic units (OTUs or taxons or taxa) through numerical methods. Clusters that consitute families was the purpose of this...

The following document, presents and analyzes the Risks Analysis in the whole software development life cycle, framed like one of the recommended practices for secure software development. It present and compare a set of...