Nosokinetics

Intelligent Technologies for Medical Tutoring

Professor Salem Abdel-Badeeh,
Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences,
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt writes:

Editor: Artificial Intelligence based educational software can adjust its tutorial to the student's knowledge, experience, strengths, and weakness, and may be able to carry on a natural language dialogue. Automatic generation of exercises and tests is an important feature of Intelligent Teaching Systems.

The benefits are clear. Students can receive training at their own site, instructors can monitor progress from a distance and course authors can maintain and update training material across the Internet. However, they are complex to build and to maintain and face knowledge-acquisition difficulty. Furthermore, their efficiency is determined by the efficiency of their knowledge representation techniques and reasoning methodologies.

Case-based reasoning (CBR) provides both a methodology for problem solving and a cognitive model of people. CBR means reasoning from experiences or "old cases" in an effort to solve problems, critique solutions, and explain anomalous situations.


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