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Generating Intelligent Tutoring Systems from Reusable Components and Knowledge-Based Systems

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2002)

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This research addresses the need for easier, more cost-effective means of developing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). A novel and advantageous solution to this problem is the development of a task-specific ITS shell that can generate tutoring systems for different domains within a given class of tasks. Task-specific authoring shells offer an appropriate knowledge representation method to build knowledgeable tutors as well as flexibility for generating ITSs for different domains. In this paper, we describe the development of an architecture that can generate intelligent tutoring systems for different domains by interfacing with existing generic task-based expert systems, and reusing the other tutoring components. The architecture was used to generate an ITS for the domain of composite materials fabrication using an existing expert system.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA

    Eman El-Sheikh

  2. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Jon Sticklen

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  1. LIRMM, University of Montpellier II and CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Stefano A. Cerri

  2. LIUPPA, IUT de Bayonne - University of Pau, Bayonne, France

    Guy Gouardères

  3. Department of Information Technologies, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil

    Fàbio Paraguaçu

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El-Sheikh, E., Sticklen, J. (2002). Generating Intelligent Tutoring Systems from Reusable Components and Knowledge-Based Systems. In: Cerri, S.A., Gouardères, G., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47987-2_24

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