O conceito de hegemonia: de Gramsci a Laclau e Mouffe

Organizando o Processo de Elicitação de Requisitos Utilizando o Conceito de Atividade

Resumo. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma proposta de organização do processo de elicitação de requisitos através do conceito de atividade. Para isso, apresentamos uma metodologia de elicitação de requisitos centrada neste conceito. O conceito de atividade é extraído da Teoria da Atividade, uma teoria da área da Psicologia, que estuda a formação dos processos mentais a partir da ativid...

O Conceito de Operação Estabelecedora na Análise do Comportamento

In general terms, establishing operations can be defined as environmental events that alter the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, as well as evoke all behavior that, in the past, has been followed by such a stimulus. The concept seems to describe, in behavioral terms, what is usually called motivation. The present paper is an attempt to didactically present the theoretical development of...

Political Agency in Dewey and in Laclau and Mouffe

In a condensed moment quite typical of the overstated bombast appropriate to a philosopher who was in his heart very much a metaphysician, Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that, “The creation of the world . . . is the victory of persuasion over force” (1933, 90). The metaphysics of Whitehead was a metaphysics of process, one variant of what I have called elsewhere a philosophy of transitions.1...

A Qualidade de Serviço: Um Conceito Global numa Empresa de Comunicações Globais

Minimização do Impacto do Problema de Desvio de Conceito por Meio de Acoplamento em Ambiente de Aprendizado Sem Fim

Machine Learning (ML) is a research subarea of Artificial Intelligence that aims to develop computer programs that can evolve with new experiences. Among the many ML goals, the endless learning, i.e., methods that would enable computer systems to autonomously improve their own performance, based on previously learnt information, is of particular interest in the research described in this paper....