The programme was launched on the basis of the European approach to ecological agriculture. Ecological agriculture mainly concentrates on biological processes, which in the field, however, did not permit to take socioeconomic, cultural and political aspects into consideration. The concept of the programme therefore gradually changed towards agroecology, which sees the agroecosystem as the resul...

WHILE THE EXPLOSION OF ONline information has introduced new opportunities for finding and using electronic data, it has also underscored the problem of isolating useful information and making sense of large, multidimensional information spaces. In response to this problem, we have developed an approach to building data tour guides, called FindMe systems. These programs know enough about an inf...

This is a DRAFT version of a paper that will be finalized and submitted for publication in January 2013

In today’s knowledge-based economy and fast growing world, it is the countries with workforces that are creative, adaptable, and skillful that will gain competitive advantage; therefore countries worldwide are designing and implementing policies to attract “the best and brightest” talents that are essential to their success. Highly skilled immigrants or foreign workers have made significant con...

Multiple-valued logics are useful for dealing with uncertainty and imprecision in knowledge-based systems. In this paper, we present the foundations of QMORPH: a tool that assists users in the declaration of such logics and in the declaration of the communication mechanism between two of these different logics by preserving inference.