Intelligent agent supported personalization for virtual learning environments

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 825-843

  Xu, Dongming ^a   Wang, Huaiqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence application; eLearning; Intelligent agents; Personalization; Virtual learning environment

Indexed keywords

ELEARNING; PERSONALIZATION; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749541934     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.05.033     Document Type: Article

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