Multiple Agents Acting in Parallel within an Intelligent Real-time Tutor
Chris Eliot · 2008
This paper examines the problem of achieving interaction among multiple agents within an intellgient tutor. The tutor combines agent technology, medical protocals, planning, real-time simulation, and student and domain modeling to yield a tutor capable of monitoring a student's progress with out the need of a human teacher. This tutor provides one of the first complete integrations of real-time simulation and knowledge-based reasoning based upon sophisticated principles of communication and coordiation. We report on novel techniques for commonsense reasoning about plans, multi-agent reasoning and recovery from unexpected situqations.