Expanding the space of plausible solutions in a medical tutoring system for problem-based learning

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-334

  Kazi, Hameedullah ^a,b   Haddawy, Peter ^a   Suebnukarn, Siriwan ^c  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Ill defined domains; ITS; Knowledge acquisition; Medical PBL; Robustness; UMLS

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649599219     PISSN: 15604292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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