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A Multi-agent Cooperative Intelligent Tutoring System: The Case of Musical Harmony Domain

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This paper presents a cooperative intelligent tutoring system which adopts a multiagent approach, here applied to Musical Harmony domain. This system integrates an ITS with a Web hypermedia component resulting in a Web-based distance educational system. The essential idea in our research is to define and develop an environment that provides effective means to involve human learners, tutoring system and human teachers, in productive cooperative interactions based on problem solving situations. The system architecture consists of eight main entities: Learner, Teacher, Human Expert System, Set of artificial tutoring agents, Hypermedia Component, as well as, three interfaces modules to assure interactions between theses entities. Here we give an overview of the system, emphasising the multi-agent system and the main interactions between human and artificial agents. We also bring out particular aspects related to domain knowledge modelling and its consequences in the multiagent design, learner modelling, and a mechanism from the tutoring system to supporting adaptive navigation on the teaching material.

This Project is partially supported by the Brazilian Government within the CNPq Program.

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  1. Departamento de Tecnologia da Informação, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A.C. Simões, Tab. do Martins, Maceió -AL, Brazil

    Evandro de Barros Costa, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Emerson Ferreira de Araújo Lima, Ricardo Rubens Gomes Nunes Filho & Klebson dos Santos Silva

  2. Departamento de Sistemas e Computação, UFPB, Campina Grande-PB, Mexico

    Fernando Maia Assunção

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  1. Computer Science Section, Electrical Engineering Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Av. IPN 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, D.F. 07300, Mexico, Mexico

    Carlos A. Coello Coello

  2. Computer Science Department, ITESM-Mexico City, Calle del Puente 222, Tlalpan, D.F. 14380, Mexico, Mexico

    Alvaro de Albornoz

  3. Computer Science Department, ITESM-Cuernavaca, Reforma 182-A, Lomas de Cuernavaca, Temixco, 62589, Morelos, Mexico

    Luis Enrique Sucar

  4. Department of Computer Science, ITAM, Rio Hondo 1, Progreso Tizapan, D.F. 01000, Mexico, Mexico

    Osvaldo Cairó Battistutti

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de Barros Costa, E., de Almeida, H.O., de Araújo Lima, E.F., Nunes Filho, R.R.G., dos Santos Silva, K., Assunção, F.M. (2002). A Multi-agent Cooperative Intelligent Tutoring System: The Case of Musical Harmony Domain. In: Coello Coello, C.A., de Albornoz, A., Sucar, L.E., Battistutti, O.C. (eds) MICAI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2313. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46016-0_39

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