Expert systems education

Therefore, the argument s reasoning is loosely connected, founded on assumptions and unqualified premises. Alone, the evidence provided to support the position is not even tentatively related to the author s main argument That an expert in education will solve Noxville s education problems and that the city council s record alone reflects Jackson s neglect of the education system. 

Xpert Rule is widely used in industrial and scientific applications, one of them performed in cooperation with NASA and Rockwell Aerospace. It is called NASA s Contamination Control Engineering Design Guidelines Expert System and was developed by Rockwell International s Space Systems Division. It was developed for education in contamination control processes and is designed as an interactive guide to assist with quantifying contamination for sensitive surfaces. The tool enables the user to quantify molecular and particulate contamination requirements for solar arrays, thermal control surfaces, or optical sensors [24],... 

In the field of education, many of the expert system applications are embedded inside the intelligent tutoring system (ITS) by using techniques from adaptive hypertext and hypermedia. ITS is a system that provides individualized tutoring or instruction. In contrast to other expert systems, ITS covers multiple knowledge areas ... 

This symposium series volume is the second of its kind (1). Both symposia were organized with several purposes in mind. The first, and most general, is simply to expose the chemical community to expert systems. Expert systems should be of interest to people in a wide variety of fields of chemistry. The second is to educate chemists in the capabilities of expert systems both what they can and can not do for them. Finally, by presenting a variety of applications, it was hoped that attendees would generate further new ideas for expert system applications. The second symposium presented the additional opportunity to review the progress of some of the work described in the first symposium. 

Pacut, A., Kolodziej, W., and Chaplen, F.W., Cytosensors for early detection of biological and chemical threats-statistical approach, in Neuronal Networks and Expert Systems in Medicine and Healthcare, Proceedings of the fourth International Conference — NNESMED, Milos Island, Greece, June 20-22, Technological Education Institute of Crete, 2001, pp. 437-442. 

Jonassen, D.H., Grabinger, R.S., Wang, S. (1990). IDD Advisor Merging expert systems and hypertext. Pap presented at the annual convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Anaheim, CA, February 1,1990. 

Merrill, M.D. Knowledge engineering an instructional design expert system. Workshop presented at the meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Dallas, TX. 1989. 

Dr. Marlene Jones is a senior researcher in Artificial Intelligence in the Alberta Research Council s Department of Advanced Technologies and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computational Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to joining the Alberta Research Council in January 1987, Dr. Jones was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. Her qualifications include a PhD (Computer Science) from the University of Toronto and an MEd (location of Exceptional Children) from the University of Saskatchewan. Her research experience expands mote than a decade, with the last 8 years focussed upon research in the area of AI and Education. Dr Jones recent research projects include the development of expert systems for educational diagnosis, expert environments for curriculum and course development, and user modelling. 

Ernesto Costa, is Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Coimbra where he is the head of the artifrcial intelligence group. He received his 3rd cycle thesis in theoretical computer science in 1981 at the University of Paris Vt (France), and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1985 at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). His principle research interests include real time expert systems for fault diagnosis and machine learning applications to education. He is member of the board of directors of the Poituguese association for AI (APPIA) since the... 

The ability of the expert system software to give advice or educate the user in a congenial fashion and in the user s own terms is paramount, so that any psychological barriers to computer use are avoided. 

Translate molecularly based modehng into education, expert systems for method choices (precision in context of time and cost)... 

A workshop was held in 2002 to discuss the structure and initial content of a possible future expert system for XPS [132]. These discussions led to many recommendations concerning instrument and specimen characterization, experimental objectives, instrument setup, acquisition and analysis of survey scans, protocols for narrow scans and analysis of results, identification of chemical state and sample morphology, and quantitative analyses. These recommendations are believed to be a valuable source of best practices as well as an educational resource for both novice and experienced users. Castle has recently designed a module for an XPS expert system that would guide corrosion scientists [133] and has shown design goals for similar applications in catalysis, adhesion science, tribology, and biomaterials [134]. 

The system works interactively with the user to select the best material for the specified application, educating the novice and informing the expert. Users can access definitions of materials, their advantages and disadvantages, compare graphs of flexural modulus vs. temperature, review data sheets and explore materials selection examples. The system is also hyper-linked to complete material supplier information and online help. 

There are increasing indications that the traditional education system in which the teacher plays the role of expert and the student that of a passive learner is undergoing reform in many medical schools. The trend can only grow. 

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