A Multi-agent Cooperative Intelligent Tutoring System: The Case of Musical Harmony Domain
Evandro de Barros Costa5
, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida5, Emerson Ferreira de Araújo Lima5, Ricardo Rubens Gomes Nunes Filho5, Klebson dos Santos Silva5 and Fernando Maia Assunção6 
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Departamento de Tecnologia da Informação, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A.C. Simões, Tab. do Martins, Maceió -AL, Brazil |
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Departamento de Sistemas e Computação, UFPB, Campina Grande-PB, Mexico |
Abstract
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.
Keywords Intelligent Tutoring System - Multiagent Systems - Adaptive Hypermedia - Distance Learning
This Project is partially supported by the Brazilian Government within the CNPq Program.
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