Much research and development work is being undertaken on educational agents. Each
project, it seems, starts out from its own educational needs and theoretical bases. In this …

This paper brings together research from two different fields–user modelling and web
ontologies–in attempt to demonstrate how recent semantic trends in web development can …

This chapter addresses the challenge of building or authoring an Intelligent Tutoring System
(ITS), along with the problems that have arisen and been dealt with, and the solutions that …

Education is a dominating application area for adaptive hypermedia. Web-based adaptive
educational systems incorporate complex intelligent tutoring techniques, which enable the …

Traditional Web-based educational systems still have several shortcomings when
comparing with real-life classroom teaching, such as lack of contextual and adaptive …

With the movement in education towards collaborative learning, it is becoming more
important that learners be able to work together in groups and teams. Intelligent tutoring …

In this paper, we present an agent-based system designed to support the adoption of
knowledge sharing practices within communities. The system is based on a conceptual …

Whether a trainee is studying air traffic control, piloting, maintenance engineering, or cabin
crew, they must complete a set number of training'hours' before being licensed or certified …

Several approaches using fuzzy techniques have been proposed to provide a practical
method for evaluating student academic performance. However, these approaches are …

This paper presents a comparison of learning task selection approaches that have been
used throughout the last three decades in the training of complex cognitive skills. In general …