TY - CHAP
T1 - Ontology agents and their applications in the web-based education systems
T2 - Towards an adaptive and intelligent service
AU - Ayala, Alejandro Peña
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=54549090909&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-88071-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-88071-4_11
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:54549090909
SN - 9783540880707
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 249
EP - 278
BT - Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications
A2 - Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh
A2 - Jain, Lakhmi
ER -