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On Developing Case-Based Tutorial Systems with Conceptual Graphs

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Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices (ICCS 1999)

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In this paper, a case-based intelligent tutoring system (CBITS) using conceptual graphs to represent the cases is described. Among others, two core issues to be addressed by CBITS developers are indexing and how learning activities can be constructed from the cases. Addressing the former, the authors discovered that the minimum common generalization of a set of graphs is a powerful means of embedding different tutorial primitives into the cases. This approach provides an extremely rich indexing vocabulary for the cases and relieves the developers from speculative assignment of indexes. For constructing learning activities an operational semantics for the case graphs is defined and with this semantics the instructor can reason about the graph structure and provide intelligent guidance to the students in exploring the case contents. Newtonian mechanics is the testing domain of the proposal but its underlying methodology should be equally applicable to other subject domains.

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  1. Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Pak-Wah Fung & Ray H. Kemp

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  1. Software Engineering Department, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764-1898, USA

    William M. Tepfenhart

  2. The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Automatic Design Research Group, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

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Fung, PW., Kemp, R.H. (1999). On Developing Case-Based Tutorial Systems with Conceptual Graphs. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Cyre, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices. ICCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48659-3_14

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