Teaching introductory artificial intelligence using a simple agent framework

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 382-390

  Pantic, Maja ^a   Zwitserloot, Reinier ^a   Grootjans, Robbert Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent framework; Artificial intelligence (AI) course; Intelligent agents; Introductory engineering course; Java; Rule based reasoning; Semantic network; World Wide Web search

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT FRAMEWORK; AI COURSE; INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING COURSE; RULE BASED REASONING; SEMANTIC NETWORK;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 26444586126     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2004.842906     Document Type: Article

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