Swarm intelligence in e-learning: A learning object sequencing agent based on competencies

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-24

  De Marcos, Luis ^a   Martínez, José Javier ^a   Gutiérrez, José Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competency; e Learning; Learning Object (LO); Learning object sequencing; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; METADATA; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY;

AGENT BASED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT; COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSIONS; COMPETENCY; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; CONTENT CREATORS; COURSE MATERIALS; E - LEARNINGS; LEARNING OBJECT (LO); LEARNING OBJECT SEQUENCING; LEARNING OBJECTS; LEARNING RESOURCES; ORDERED SETS; SEQUENCING PROBLEMS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM INTELLIGENCES;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 57349098270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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