Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Decision Support

Session: Probabilistic, Statistic and Stochastic Methods for Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Decision Support

5 articles
Proceedings Article

Performance analysis of the academic units at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Catalina Lucía Alberto, Claudia Carignano
The Universidad Nacional de Córdoba founded in 1613 is the oldest and one of the largest in the country. In 2011 it had 121,476 undergraduate students, 9,156 teaching positions and 83 degree programs. The university has 13 academic units, two pre-college high schools, two teaching hospitals and a blood...
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Audits and logistic regression, deciding what really matters in service processes. A case study of a government funding agency for research grants

Robert Wayne Samohyl
Governmental agencies, businesses and nongovernmental organizations experience repetitive and out-of-date processes causing resource waste. Banks, credit card companies and tax authorities must evaluate whether creditors have fulfilled their obligations, and funding agencies should verify the use of...
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Study of the industrialization-ability of the production of mescal in Guerrero-Mexico

Sira Allende, Carlos Bouza, Dante Covarrubias, Housila Sharkar
We considered the modeling of the evaluation of projects for industrializing the artisanal production of mescal. A Decision Support system is modeled for determining the priorities of the tasks. The ability for evaluating projects is considered. Data provided from a large research developed in Guerrero...
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A Complex Mining Process about Air Quality

Mihaela Juganaru-Mathieu, Silvia González Brambila
In this paper we present a mining project about extracting knowledge from public documents concerning air pollution. Our collection contains annual reports about air quality, acid rains, climatological conditions in the large area of Mexico City. These reports contain reliable data and are generated...
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High Cardiovascular Risk Models for a city in the Central Region of Cuba

Gladys M. Casas-Cardoso, Jorge Luis Morales-Martínez, Lisset Denoda-Pérez, Leidys Cabrera-Hernández, Lucía Argüelles-Cortés, Emilio González-Rodríguez
This research is based on the study of a real database, in order to determine the factors of the High Cardiovascular Risk in the city of Santa Clara, in the Central Region of Cuba. Mathematical models of the high risk index, consid-ering the characteristics of the population of the city are obtained....