Um arcabouço cooperativo para uma sociedade de agentes tutores.

Abstract

This work presents the design and development of a cooperative framework for a society of intelligent tutoring agents. This society is within the scope of an interactive learning environment named MATHEMA and in the research in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. The development of this framework starts with the definition of models for organization, cooperation, and communication for this society, and a model for the tutoring agents. Furthermore, this work contributes to the definition of the architecture of the tutoring agents. In order to promote the cooperative behavior, an interaction language as well as interaction protocols are defined. Also, some implementation issues related to this framework are detailed.