Granular mining of student's learning behavior in learning management system using rough set technique

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 273, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-124

  Ahmad, Nor Bahiah Hj ^a   Shamsuddin, Siti Mariyam ^a   Abraham, Ajith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Classification; Discretization; Learning styles; Rough set; Rule filtering; Rule generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950201806     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11224-9_5     Document Type: Article

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