1 Department of Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computation, State University of São Paulo (UNESP) at Rio Claro, 13500-230 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil 2 Civil Engineering Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3 Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, University of São Paulo (PEF/EPUSP/USP), 05508-900 São Paulo,...

Much research has focused on the problem of knowledge accessibility, sharing and reuse. Specific languages (e.g. KIF, CG, RDF) and ontologies have been proposed. Common characteristics, conventions or ontological distinctions are beginning to emerge. Since knowledge providers (humans and software agents) must follow common conventions for the knowledge to be widely accessed and re-used, we prop...

Affiliations 2 and 3 are incorrectly switched. The affiliations from Dr. Carlos Groppo and Dr. Reginald Ceneviva should appear as: Francisco Carlos Groppo 2 Reginaldo Ceneviva 3 2 Department of Physiological Sciences, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil 3 Department of Surgery and Anatomy, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo,...

Recently, the study of social conventions has attracted much attention in the literature. We notice that a type of interesting phenomena, local convention phenomena, may also exist in certain multiagent systems. When agents are partitioned into compact communities, different local conventions emerge in different communities. In this paper, we provide a definition for local conventions, and prop...

Unidade de Neurocirurgia Endovascular do Serviço de Neurocirurgia do Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil: MD, Neurosurgeon, fellow of Unit of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; MD, Medical student at Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, SP, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgeon at Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto...

1. Classification of models 2. Criteria for choosing models 3. Non-tidal loading effects 4. New models 5. Possible additions to the Conventions 6. Technique-dependent effects 7. Terminology concerning reference systems 8. Practical application to the rewriting of some parts of Conventions (2003) 9. Electronic diffusion of the Conventions 10. Links with other fields of geodesy 11. Next registere...

* Study developed in the Program of Post-graduation in Medicine (Radiology) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Financial support: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes). 1. Lato sensu Post-graduation – Faculdade Estácio de Sá, Fellow Master degree, stricto sensu Post-graduation in Radiology – Universidade Federal do Rio de ...

How do shared conventions emerge in complex decentralized social systems? This question engages fields as diverse as linguistics, sociology, and cognitive science. Previous empirical attempts to solve this puzzle all presuppose that formal or informal institutions, such as incentives for global agreement, coordinated leadership, or aggregated information about the population, are needed to faci...