This essay is concerned about how to evaluate positive theories on Latin American development. Its content is nested in a broader discussion on theoretical decay and theoretical progress by using Imre Lakatos’ approach of sophisticated falsificationism. The main argument states that theory driven research on Latin American development provides further evidence to the assumption that methodologi...

This paper presents a preliminary analysis for applying Multi Agent Systems to Communities of Practice. In this paper, we present some basic issues on Communities of Practice including a definition and some concepts, namely those of identity, trajectory and multi-membership. We analyze the adequacy of the Multi-Agent Systems technology to support Communities of Practice. We show how some charac...