Personalizing learning programs with X-Learn, an XML-based, "user-device" adaptive multi-agent system

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1729-1770

  De Meo, Pasquale ^a   Garro, Alfredo ^b   Terracina, Giorgio ^b   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Device adaptivity; E learning; Multi agent system; User profile; XML

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CURRICULA; DISTANCE EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; XML;

E-LEARNING; USER PROFILE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846650628     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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