Title: Self-adaptive agent-based tutoring system

Authors: R. Gowri; S. Kanmani

Addresses: Department of IT, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry, India ' Department of IT, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India

Abstract: The amount of learning resources in internet has grown rapidly in the recent decades. As a result, information consumers are facing the challenges of choosing the right content and get accumulated with confusion. Inevitably intelligent tutoring system (ITS) has gained a great deal of attention in this area. This work examines the existing ITS, presents the design and implementation of self-adaptive agent-based tutoring system aimed for engineering students to learn java. Device adaptation and content adaptation are supported in this system. The key aspect of the proposed system is that each agent is deployed based on monitor analyse plan execute (MAPE) reference model. Hence, adaptation is achieved at each agent level which leads to entire system adaptable. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the system, it is experimented with 80 students studying in VI semester of BTECH degree. The evaluation result reveals that 80% of slow learner's performances are improved gradually.

Keywords: agents; intelligent tutoring systems; ITS; self-adaptation; self-adaptive tutoring systems; agent-based tutoring; SABTS; engineering education; Java; agent-based systems; multi-agent systems; MAS; higher education; device adaptation; content adaptation; monitor analyse plan execute; MAPE; BTECH degrees; slow learners.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIS.2015.074398

International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems, 2015 Vol.2 No.3, pp.197 - 216

Received: 03 Apr 2013
Accepted: 21 Apr 2014
Published online: 28 Jan 2016 *

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