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Fuzzy ECA Rules for Pervasive Decision-Centric Personalised Mobile Learning

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Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning

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This chapter addresses personalisation in intelligent context-aware information systems. A personalized mobile learning system can be viewed as an information system related to the domain of education. Personalization requires the identification and selection of individuals; this can be achieved using an individual’s profile (termed context). A context is inherently complex, its effective use representing a challenge that has to date not been adequately addressed. This chapter considers this challenge, identifies context-aware systems as intrinsically decision-centric, and introduces Fuzzy Event:Condition:Action (FEAC) rules as an effective approach to enable deterministic computational intelligence to be applied in intelligent context-aware personalised mobile learning systems. The FECA rules algorithm is presented with example implementations, an evaluation, and proof-of-concept. The chapter closes with a discussion, conclusions, open research questions, and consideration of future directions for future work.

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Moore, P., Jackson, M., Hu, B. (2010). Fuzzy ECA Rules for Pervasive Decision-Centric Personalised Mobile Learning. In: Xhafa, F., Caballé, S., Abraham, A., Daradoumis, T., Juan Perez, A.A. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11224-9_2

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