Using links to describe imprecise relationships in educational contents

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 260-275

  Sicilia, Miguel Ángel ^a   García, Elena ^a   Díaz, Paloma ^b   Aedo, Ignacio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia; Educational resources; Fuzzy set theory; Imprecision; Link types; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EDUCATION; FUZZY SETS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES; IMPRECISION; ONTOLOGIES; SEQUENCING STRATEGIES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043095549     PISSN: 15604624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2004.004973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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