Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt

In the last few years, new forms of artificial intelligence- based education software have been created that allow the computer to cat as an intelligent tutor. Such intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) can adjust its tutorial to the student’s knowledge, experience, strengths, and weaknesses. It may even be able to carry on a natural language dialogue. In addition, automatic generation of exercises and tests is an important feature of such systems. Recently, software vendors and researchers start research to put the ITSs on the Internet for the purpose of distance education through the web. Not only do students receive training at their own sites, but instructors monitor student’s progress from a distance, and course authors maintain and update training material across the Internet. On the other hand, ITSs are complex to build, maintain and face the knowledge –acquisition difficulty. Productivity of ITS development is determined by the efficiency of their knowledge representation techniques and reasoning methodologies.