ABITS: An Agent Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Distance Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe an Intelligent Tutoring Framework highly re-usable and suitable to several knowledge domains. In particular the system, named ABITS, has been realized in the context of the InTraSys ESPRIT project. It is able to support a Web-based Course Delivery Platform with a set of "intelligent" functions providing both student modeling and automatic curriculum generation. Such functions found their effectiveness on a set of rules for knowledge indexing based on Metadata and Conceptual Graphs following the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard.