Ontology agents and their applications in the web-based education systems: Towards an adaptive and intelligent service

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Abstract

The ontology agent (OA) has become a necessary approach to enable and manage the acquisition, query and reuse of knowledge in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) approaches and applications, such as Multi-agent Systems (MAS) and Web-based Education Systems (WBES) respectively. In this chapter, the aim is to point the reader at what I perceive to be the main theoretical and methodological issues regarding definition, design and implementation of an OA. Hence, the underlying concepts about agents, ontologies, OA and WBES are stated firstly. Afterwards, some agents and ontologies applications in the WBES arena are introduced. Next, the formal model for agents and ontologies is set. Also, a method for building agents and ontologies is outlined. With this baseline, the development of an OA for delivering adaptive and intelligent teaching-learning experiences through a WBES is shown. Based on the trial's outcome of the approach, it is concluded that a WBES is able to improve the apprenticeship of students. This chapter ends with a resume of the content, a discussion about the usefulness of the OA on a WBES, and a declaration of further work to be done in order to encourage research in this field.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications
EditorsNgoc Thanh Nguyen, Lakhmi Jain
Pages249-278
Number of pages30
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameStudies in Computational Intelligence
Volume167
ISSN (Print)1860-949X

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