This document presents a case study to validate a new approach to develop conceptual schemas (or databases) for information systems, consisting in the refinement of a general ontology [CdPO03]. We use a well-known case ...

DROP is a global land dataset to monitor meteorological drought that gathers an ensemble of observation-based datasets providing near-real time estimates with associated uncertainty using a probabilistic approach. Accurate ...

In this paper we present a new formal context for symmetric dependencies. We study its properties and compare it with previous approaches. We also discuss how this new context may open the door to solve some open problems ...

Water and Sanitation programmes normally involve big amounts of information and several years of implementation; these are facts that justify the need of a proper monitoring. In this paper a Support Information System (SIS) ...

Today's applications, especially those in the scientific community, deal with an ever growing amount of data. Among the problems that arise from this explosion of data are how to organize the data so that the information ...

This master thesis is expected to give solutions to a current and open problem. Different aspects related to the genealogical tree storage using advanced databases are considered in this thesis. The first important ...

First part: classification of political speeches' titles; second part: extracting the information of politicians' characteristics from the biographies and measuring the correlation between the characteristics and the ...

Technology has revolutionized many industries and sport is no exception, looking for ways to improve your team, taking advantage of any resource. The goal of data analysis is to find a solution to the questions we ask ...