ASPIRE: An authoring system and deployment environment for constraint-based tutors

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-188

  Mitrovic, Antonija ^a   Martin, Brent ^a   Suraweera, Pramuditha ^a   Zakharov, Konstantin ^a   Milik, Nancy ^a   Holland, Jay ^a   McGuigan, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Authoring systems; Constraint based ITSs; Evaluation; ITS deployment environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749283887     PISSN: 15604292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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