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Online Test Paper Generation (Online-TPG) is a promising approach for Web-based testing and intelligent tutoring. It generates a test paper automatically online according to user specification based on multiple assessment criteria, and the generated test paper can then be attempted over the Web by user for self-assessment. Online-TPG is challenging as it is a multi-objective optimization problem on constraint satisfaction that is NP-hard, and it is also required to satisfy the online runtime requirement. The current techniques such as dynamic programming, tabu search, swarm intelligence and biologically inspired algorithms are ineffective for Online-TPG as these techniques generally require long runtime for generating good quality test papers. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach, called DAC-TS, which is based on the principle of constraint-based divide-and-conquer (DAC) and tabu search (TS) for constraint decomposition and multi-objective optimization for Online-TPG. Our empirical performance results have shown that the proposed DAC-TS approach has outperformed other techniques in terms of runtime and paper quality.
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Nguyen, M.L., Hui, S.C., Fong, A.C.M. (2011). A Divide-and-Conquer Tabu Search Approach for Online Test Paper Generation. In: Wang, D., Reynolds, M. (eds) AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25832-9_73
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