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The kNN algorithm has three main advantages that make it appealing to the community: it is easy to understand, it regularly offers competitive performance and its structure can be easily tuning to adapting to the needs of researchers to achieve better results. One of the variations is weighting the instances based on their distance. In this paper we propose a weighting based on the Newton's gravitational force, so that a mass (or relevance) has to be assigned to each instance. We evaluated this idea in the kNN context over 13 benchmark data sets used for binary and multi-class classification experiments. Results in F1 score, statistically validated, suggest that our proposal outperforms the original version of kNN and is statistically competitive with the distance weighted kNN version as well.

This paper presents a 11-day experiment conducted at the high-energy dissipative beach of Mataquito, Maule Region, Chile. During the experiment, offshore significant wave height ranged 1-4 m, with persistent long period up to 18 s and oblique incidence. Wave energy reflection value ranged from 1 to 4 %, and results show that it is highly linked to both incoming wave characteristics and swash zone beach slope, and is well correlated to a swash-slope based Iribarren number. The swash acting as a low-pass filter in the reflection mechanism, our results show that the cutoff period is better determined by swash slope rather than incoming wave's period. A new low cost technique for observing high-frequency swash hydro-morphodynamics is introduced and validated using LIDAR measurements. A good agreement is found. Separation of uprush and backswash components using the Radon Transform illustrates the low-frequency filtering effect. These results show the key role played by swash mechanism in the reflection rate and frequency selection. More investigation is needed to describe the reflection process and its link with shoreface evolution, moving toward a swash-by-swash approach.

El objetivo del presente trabajo consiste en dar a conocer, de manera descriptiva, el modo en que se realizó el levantamiento del perfil de egreso de los alumnos del Programa de Bachillerato de la Universidad de los Andes(Chile,utilizando una adaptación de la metodología que se deriva del Proyecto Tuning y del Proyecto Tuning para Latinoamérica y las directrices para la elaboración de perfiles de egreso institucional. Considerando que el Programa de Bachillerato tiene un carácter propedéutico a los estudios universitarios, este trabajo constituye una novedad al adaptar una metodología orientada a la elaboración de perfiles de carreras con salida profesional.