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A Framework for Building a Knowledge-Based System for Curriculum Design in Engineering

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Borges, M.N. (2007). A Framework for Building a Knowledge-Based System for Curriculum Design in Engineering. In: Nedjah, N., Mourelle, L.d.M., Borges, M.N., Almeida, N.N.d. (eds) Intelligent Educational Machines. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44921-8_1

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