Quem sustenta tanto desenvolvimento?

'Pro tanto quid retribuamus'.

THERE are three addresses given each autumn in Belfast-the Presidential addresses of the Ulster Medical Society and the Eastern Division of the British Medical Association and the opening address to the new clinical students of the Royal Victoria Hospital. The evolution of medicine in the Province has been the most common subject, yet medicine did not develop in Belfast on its own but in the en...

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

Desenvolvimento de SIG para Web utilizando MDA

No desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG), ferramentas como servidores de mapas são utilizadas para dar suporte à busca, recuperação e visualização de mapas. Uma ferramenta de código-aberto muito utilizada é o MapServer, um ambiente de desenvolvimento de SIG para Web desenvolvido pela Universidade de Minnesota [Carvalho, 2004]. Para utilizar o MapServer é necessário que o de...