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We have designed a virtual learning environment where students interact through their computers and with the software agents in order to achieve a common educational goal. The Multi-Agent System (MAS) consisting of autonomous, cognitive and social agents communicating by messages is used to provide a group decision support system for the learning environment. Learning objects are distributed in a network and have different weights in function of their relevance to a specific educational goal. The relevance of a learning object can change in time; it is affected by students’, agents’ and teachers’ evaluation. We have used an ant colony behavior model for the agents that play the role of a tutor and organizing the group-work activities for the students.
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Moisil, I., Pah, I., Simian, D., Simian, C. (2008). Ant Colony Models for a Virtual Educational Environment Based on a Multi-Agent System. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4818. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78827-0_66
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