A personalization web service for curricula planning and validation

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A poster presentation written by Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Ingo Brunkhorst, Viviana Patti and Elisa Marengo. It was presented at the ESWC2007. It is about Personalization, Logics, Web-Service and Reasoning

[edit] Abstract

In this work we present a service-oriented personalization system,

  set in an education framework, which allows to perform two
  tasks, based on a semantic annotation of a set of courses,
  given at a knowledge level (what the course teaches, what is requested
  to know for attending it in a profitable way).
  On the one hand, users are supported in building personalized curricula,
  formalized by means of an action theory.
  On the other hand, it is possible to verify the
  soundness of curricula w.r.t. a model, that expresses constraints
  and dependencies at a knowledge level. For what concerns the
  first task, classical planning techniques are adopted, which
  take into account both the student's context (the initial knowledge)
  and her learning goal (what she wants to learn).
  Instead, curricula validation is done against a model, which is
  formalized as a set of time constraints. In this framework, it is
  possible to perform various interesting verication tasks
  by using temporal reasoning.
  The Curriculum Planning Service has been integrated as a new
  plug-and-play personalization service in the Personal Reader
  framework. We have developed a prototype of
  the validation system by using the well-known SPIN model
  checker.

This data has been imported from the ESWC2007 RDF