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Modeling and Using Context - Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT'99, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 1999, Proceedings (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Patrick Brezillon, Massimo Benerecetti, Francesca Castellani
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This volume contains the papers presented at the Second
International and - terdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and
Using Context (CONTEXT 99), held in Trento (Italy) from 9 to 11
September 1999. CONTEXT 99 is the second in the CONTEXT series. The
rst was held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1997. The CONTEXT
conference series is meant to provide an interdisciplinary - rum
where researchers can exchange ideas, methodologies, and results on
c- text, and is increasingly becoming an important reference for
all people doing research on context. This is testi ed by the
larger number of research areas that are represented at CONTEXT 99
(in particular, Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology were not signi
cantly present at the rst conference), and by the number and
quality of submitted papers. Speci cally, we received 118 papers,
mostly of good or excellent quality. Among them, 33 (28%) have been
accepted as full papers, and 21 as short papers. We think it is
fair to say that the 54 papers collected in this volume provide a
signi cant picture of the international research on context
currently going on. The notion of context plays an important role
in many areas, both theoretical and applied, such as Formal Logic,
Arti cial Intelligence, Philosophy, Pragm- ics, Computational
Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology."
This book looks at both the potential and limits of policies to
promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social
mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. Who are the region's
entrepreneurs? They tend to be middle-aged males with secondary
and, often, tertiary education who represent only a small segment
of the economically active population in the six countries
considered in this book. They come from families in which a parent
is, or was, an entrepreneur. In fact, a parent's occupation is more
important in the decision to become an entrepreneur than a parent's
wealth, income or education. Middle class entrepreneurship tends to
dominate the sample in part since this is the majority class in
society. However, as a percentage of each social class,
entrepreneurship tends to be higher in the upper class, followed by
the middle and lower class. Entrepreneurs concentrate in micro
enterprises with fewer than five employees. They enjoy greater
social mobility than employees and the self-employed, but this
mobility is not always in the upward direction. Entrepreneurs face
multiple obstacles including stifling bureaucracy, burdensome tax
procedures, and lack of financing, human capital, technological
skills, and supportive networks. The support of family and friends
and a modicum of social capital help cope with these obstacles to
entrepreneurship.
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