Enhancing user support in open problem solving environments through Bayesian Network inference techniques

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 150-165

  Tselios, Nikolaos ^a   Stoica, Adrian ^a   Maragoudakis, Manolis ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos ^a   Komis, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive help; Automated problem solving strategy identification; Bayesian belief networks; Inference algorithms; On line adaptation; Open problem solving environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845322998     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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