Conceptual Design of a Smart Classroom Based on Multiagent Systems

Authors: Jose Aguilar, Priscila Valdiviezo, Jorge Cordero and Manuel Sánchez

Abstract - The smart environments have been used in different domains: home, educational and health centers, etc. Particularly, a smart environment in education must integrate different aspects linked to virtual and presencial education, the profile of the students, to the pedagogical paradigm used, etc., in real time. In this paper we characterize a smart classroom considering these aspects, using the multiagent systems paradigm. Particularly, we define the different components of a smart classroom with their properties. Based on that, we describe these components like agents using MASINA, a methodology to specify multiagent systems. We define two frameworks of agents which describe the different types of components in a smart classroom (of software and of hardware), and give examples of applications of these two frameworks in a device and a software of a smart classroom. Finally, we show an example of conversation in a smart classroom based on our multiagents approach, specifically in a work session.

Keywords: Smart Classroom, Multiagent System, AmI, Middleware

Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI): 471-477. Athens: The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp). (2015)

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