User behaviour-driven group formation through case-based reasoning and clustering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8756-8768

  Cocea, Mihaela ^a,b   Magoulas, George D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Clustering; Collaboration; Exploratory learning environments; Group formation

Indexed keywords

BASED ON CASE-BASED REASONING; CBR; CLUSTERING; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES; COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM; EXPLORATORY LEARNING; GENERALISATION; GROUP FORMATIONS; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; USER BEHAVIOUR;

CASE BASED REASONING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84859211893     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.205     Document Type: Article

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