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Multi-agent simulation of an educational collaborative web system

Abstract:

This paper describes the simulation of the activities of a group of students who are using a simulated collaborative educational system, based on a real system (called KnowCat) used by real students in several courses in our department. The simulation has been implemented as a multi-agent system, where both the students and the work they perform are represented by interacting agents. The objective of the simulation is to provide a means to analyze different situations and to study global system behaviour and effects such as the quality of the most voted documents, or the overall learning progress and motivation of students.