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Initially an introduction is made, consisting of the historical consideration of the knowledge society; next, the technical background of this work is analyzed, mainly composed of educational informatics and E-learning Systems; after the objectives that this research intends to achieve, its methodology, and stages are exposed. Subsequently, the elaborated theoretical foundations. This synthesis leads to the computing infrastructure centered on Multi-agent Systems, with a proposal for a single agent architecture to be used in all cases. Attention is paid to the process of human learning and to...

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently at odds. However, the move away from this 'anthropomorphic aesthetic' in Western art movements, such as modern abstract and constructivist painting, have presented the opportunity for new ways of viewing and evaluating Islamic art and architecture. Drawing upon classical Arabic literature,...

In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent ones - is evident. In the visual arts, for example, Hamdouni Alami argues that the theory of human proportions which the Ikwan al-Safa propounded (something very similar to those of da Vinci), helped shape the evolution of the philosophy of...