"Quem sabe faz a hora..."

A theoretical treatment of the Schwarz-Hora effect

An Achievement Test for Knowledge-Based Systems: QUEM

This paper describes QUEM, a method for assessing the skill level of a knowledge-based system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. QUEM is demonstrated by using it to assess the performance of a particular knowledge-based system, P. QUEM can be viewed as an achievement or job placement test given to know ledge-based systems to help system designers determine how the system should ...

QUEM: An Achievement Test for Knowledge-Based Systems

This paper describes the QUality and Experience Metric (QUEM), a method for estimating the skill level of a knowledgebased system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. It allows one to assess how many years of experience the system would be judged to have if it were a human by providing a quantitative measure of the system’s overall competence. QUEM can be viewed as a type of achie...

Quem somos nós: os Wari ́ encontram os Brancos

[Analysis of deaths of elderly people in the SABE survey].

The Pan-American Health Organization coordinated a survey called SABE - acronym for Health, Wellbeing and Aging carried out in seven Latin America and Caribbean countries. In Brazil, it was developed in the city of São Paulo in 2000. On a sample of 2,143 elderly people was applied an instrument, made up of eleven sections, in two parts. The present study was aimed at characterizing and analyzin...