Designing distributed learning environments with intelligent software agents

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Lin, Fuhua Oscar, 1962-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
• Subjects: Intelligent tutoring systems.; Artificial intelligence > Educational applications.; Intelligent agents (Computer software)
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book reports on the most recent advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Chapters are devoted to the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical issues on where and how intelligent agents can contribute to me...

Table of Contents:

• A human collaborative online learning environment using intelligent agents
• Intelligent agents supporting distributed collaborative learning
• Privacy and trust in agent-supported distributed learning
• Intelligence in MAS-based distributed learning environments
• Knowledge management for agent-based tutoring systems
• Intelligent tutoring systems for distributed learning
• Integrating agents and web services into adaptive distributed learning environments
• A multiagent framework for an adaptive e-learning system
• A language for specifying agent systems in e-learning environments
• A VR-based virtual agent system.