Evolutionary algorithms for subgroup discovery applied to e-learning data

2010 IEEE Education Engineering Conference, EDUCON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 983-990

  Carmona, C J ^a   Gonzalez P ^a   Del Jesus, M J ^a   Romero, C ^b   Ventura, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

E learning systems; Educational data mining; Evolutionary algorithms; Fuzzy rules; Subgroup discovery

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING PLATFORMS; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; SUBGROUP DISCOVERY;

DATA MINING; E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FUZZY RULES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77954934620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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