The assessment of knowledge, in theory and in practice

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3874 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 61-79

  Falmagne, Jean Claude ^a   Cosyn, Eric ^b   Doignon, Jean Paul ^c   Thiéry, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALEKS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSURE SPACES; COMBINATORIAL AXIOMS; HUMAN COMPETENCE; KNOWLEDGE STATES; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745593071     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11671404_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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