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A Multi-Agent System Model to Integrate Virtual Learning Environments and Intelligent Tutoring Systems -i- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Multimedia, Vol. 2, Nº 1 -ii- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA ISSN: 1989-1660 - VOL. II, NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jesús Soto Carrión, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. Oscar Sanjuán Martínez, Carlos III University, Spain Dr. Rubén González Crespo, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marín, Francisco José de Caldas District University, Colombia Guest Editor Dr. Juan Pavón Mestras, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Dra. Elisa Boff, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brasil Editorial Board Members Dr. Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Dr. Jörg Thomaschewski, Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany Dr. Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Dr. Luis Joyanes Aguilar, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle, University of Oviedo, Spain Dr. Juan Pavón Mestras, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Dr. Alvaro Rocha, Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal Dr. Manuel Pérez Cota, University of Vigo, Spain Dr. Jinlei Jiang, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, China Dr. Walter Colombo, Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany Dr. Javier Bajo Pérez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Dra. B. Cristina Pelayo G. Bustelo, University of Oviedo, Spain Dr. José Manuel Sáiz Álvarez, Nebrija University, Spain Dr. Raman Maini, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Dr. JianQiang Li, NEC Labs China Dr. Ke Ning, CIMRU, NUIG, Ireland Dr. Victor Martín García, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. Alonso Secades Vidal, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. David L. La Red Martínez, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina Dr. Héctor Fernández, INRIA, Rennes, France Dr. Yago Saez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Dr. Andrés G. Castillo Sanz, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. Pablo Molina, Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain Dr. Jesús Barrasa, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Dr. Juan Chulilla, OnLine and Offline CEO, Spain Dr. José Miguel Castillo, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain Dr. Sukumar Senthilkumar, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Dra. Sara Rodríguez González, University of Salamanca, Spain Dr. José Javier Rainer Granados, Bureau Veritas Business School, Spain Dr. Edward Rolando Nuñez Valdez, Open Software Foundation, Spain Dr. Jordán Pascual Espada, ElasticBox (Seattle), United States Dr. Raúl Arrabales Moreno, U-TAD University, Spain MSc. Giovanny Mauricio Tarazona Bermúdez, Francisco José de Caldas District University, Colombia Diego Blanco, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Diego Sanjuán Martínez, Vector Information Technologies, United Kingdom Elisa Garcia Gordo, Adif, Spain Gloria Garcia, Adif, Spain Ana Soto, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain -iii- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Multimedia, Vol. 2, Nº 1 Editor’s Note The International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic Artificial Intelligence provides an interdisciplinary forum in and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of which scientists and professionals can share their research systems that meet the demands of today's society. results and report new advances on Artificial Intelligence and We would like to thank all the contributing authors, as well Interactive Multimedia techniques. as the members of the Program Committee and the Organizing This special issue “Artificial Intelligence and Social Committee for their hard and highly valuable work. Their Application” includes extended versions of selected papers work has helped to contribute to the success of IBERAMIA from Artificial Intelligence and Education area of the 13th conference. Finally, the Guest Editors wish to thank Editors- edition of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial in-Chief of International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Intelligence, held in Cartagena de Indias - Colombia, Artificial Intelligence for the publication of this special issue November, 2012. The issue includes, thus, five selected that notably contributes to improve the quality of the papers, describing innovative research work, on Artificial conference. We hope the reader will share our joy and find this Intelligence in Education area including, among others: special issue very useful. Recommender Systems, Learning Objects, Intelligent Tutoring Dra. Elisa Boff, Dr. Juan Pavón Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Virtual Learning Environments, Case-based reasoning and Classifiers WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS Algorithms. This issue also includes six papers in the Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence areas, dealing with subjects such as User Experience, E-Learning, Francisco Chiclana Ph. D. is Professor of Communication Tools, Multi-Agent Systems, Grid Computing. Computational Intelligence and Decision IBERAMIA 2012 was the 13th edition of the Ibero-American Making, De Montfort University, Leicester, Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a leading symposium UK (May 2012). Co-Director of DIGITS - where the Ibero-American AI community comes together to De Montfort University Interdisciplinary share research results and experiences with researchers in Group in Intelligent Transport Systems, Artificial Intelligence from all over the world. The papers were Faculty of Technology, De Montfort organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and University, Leicester, UK (2011-present). Coordinator of REF reasoning, information and knowledge processing, knowledge UOA 11: Computer Science and Informatics. Member of the discovery and data mining, machine learning, bio-inspired Faculty of Technology Scholarship Panel, De Montfort computing, fuzzy systems, modelling and simulation, ambient University, Leicester, UK (2008-present). Member of the intelligence, multi-agent systems, human-computer interaction, School of Computer Science and Informatics Research natural language processing, computer vision and robotics, Committee. Member of the School of Computer Science and planning and scheduling, AI in education, and knowledge Informatics Industrial Liaison Committee engineering and applications. The Ibero-American Society of Artificial Intelligence Arrabales is an ICT expert and PhD in (IBERAMIA) is a legally-constituted non-profit association, Artificial Intelligence. He has published with the primary objective of promoting scientific and over 40 papers on Machine Consciousness technological activities related to Artificial Intelligence in and Cognitive Robotics and he is co- Ibero-American countries. IBERAMIA joins the Ibero- researcher in several AI research projects. American associations of Artificial Intelligence, strengthening He has a strong background in management, common bonds, promoting activities and projects related to R&D and innovation projects and digital teaching, research, technology transfer and innovation related entertainment market. His main research with Artificial Intelligence. interest is the application of artificial cognitive systems in The Artificial Intelligence is present in our everyday life. Its video games and serious games. Arrabales has a working application in distributed environments, such as the Internet, experience of over 12 years both in public university and electronic commerce, mobile communications, wireless privately held companies. He has worked as project manager devices, distributed computing, and so on is increasing and is and IT consultant in IPTV and VoD industry for several becoming an element of high added value and economic technology companies. Arrabales holds a PhD and B.Sc. in potential, both industrial and research. These technologies are Computer Science and Technology from Carlos III University changing constantly as a result of the large research and of Madrid and a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from technical effort being undertaken in both universities and Polytechnic University of Madrid. He also holds an MBA businesses. Interactive Multimedia Applications are also from the EOI Business School. Currently, Arrabales is the benefiting from advances in distributed systems research. Digital Content Engineering Area Manager at U-Tad. Combining AI, applications become more customized, optimized and promote a better user experience. The exchange -iv- DOI: 10.9781/ijimai.2013.210 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTE ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV BROA: AN AGENT-BASED MODEL TO RECOMMEND RELEVANT LEARNING OBJECTS FROM REPOSITORY FEDERATIONS ADAPTED TO LEARNER PROFILE .....................................................................................................6 IMPROVING THE FAMILY ORIENTATION PROCESS IN CUBAN SPECIAL SCHOOLS TROUGH NEAREST PROTOTYPE CLASSIFICATION ...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 CONFIDENTIALITY OF 2D CODE USING INFRARED WITH CELL-LEVEL ERROR CORRECTION........................................................ 23 MINING SOCIAL AND AFFECTIVE DATA FOR RECOMMENDATION OF STUDENT TUTORS .......................................................... 32 EFFICIENT MEASUREMENT OF THE USER EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS. HOW TO USE THE USER EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE (UEQ).EXAMPLE:
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