Semantic-based skill management for automated task assignment and courseware composition

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1184-1212

  Colucci, Simona ^a,b   Di Noia, Tommaso ^a   Di Sciascio, Eugenio ^a   Donini, Francesco M ^c   Ragone, Azzurra ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b DOOM srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competence creation; Description logics; E learning; Knowledge representation; Skill management

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649026966     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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