Educational resources recommendation system based on agents and semantic web for helping students in a virtual learning environment

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-353

  Holanda, Olavo ^a   Ferreira, Rafael ^a   Costa, Evandro ^a   Bittencourt, Ig Ibert ^a   Melo, Jean ^a   Peixoto, Mario ^a   Tiengo, Willy ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blogosphere; Educational resources; Intelligent agents; Recommendation system; Semantic web; Virtual learning environment; VLE; Web based communities

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; E-LEARNING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; STUDENTS;

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; BLOGOSPHERES; EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE; INTERACTION PROCESS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864252601     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2012.048056     Document Type: Article

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