Construction of Learning Path Using Ant Colony Optimization from a Frequent Pattern Graph
In an e-Learning system a learner may come across multiple unknown terms, which are generally hyperlinked, while reading a text definition or theory on any topic. It becomes even harder when one tries to understand those unknown terms through further such links and they again find some new terms that have new links. As a consequence they get confused where to initiate from and what are the prerequisites. So it is very obvious for the learner to make a choice of what should be learnt before what. In this paper we have taken the data mining based frequent pattern graph model to define the association and sequencing between the words and then adopted the Ant Colony Optimization, an artificial intelligence approach, to derive a searching technique to obtain an efficient and optimized learning path to reach to a unknown term.
Keywords: e-Learning, Learning Path, Data Mining, Frequent Pattern , AI, ACO
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Souvik Sengupta
Souvik Sengupta is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bengal Institute of Technology, India . He has obtained his Master of Technology form West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2008. He is currently performing his research work under the PhD program of the Department of Information Technology of the university of Calcutta ,India. He has 9 international jounal and conference papers published in last 3 years. He has also served as a visiting faculty in the MTech program of Department of Computer Science of National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata, India. His areas of research interests include Web–based Learning, Multimedia Database, Data mining, Software engineering, Artificial Intelligence.
Sandipan Sahu
Sandipan Sahu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bengal Institute of Technology, India . He has obtained his Master of Technology form West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2007. He has 2 international and national conference paper published in last 4 years. His areas of research interests include Web–based Learning, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing.
Ranjan Dasgupta
Ranjan Dasgupta is Professor & Head, Dept. of CSE. National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research, Kolkata, India, Previously he was with Jadavpur University, and also served several Indian IT companies, for five years. He received his B. Tech from,Dept. of Radio Physics & Electronics, M. Tech, & Ph.D from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calcutta,India. His areas of research interests include software,engineering, databases, GIS, distributed computing. Dr.Dasgupta has published around 30 research papers in different International Conferences & Journals. He has also served several other Universities & national & international bodies, World Bank Assisted Projects in various capacities.
Souvik Sengupta
Souvik Sengupta is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bengal Institute of Technology, India . He has obtained his Master of Technology form West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2008. He is currently performing his research work under the PhD program of the Department of Information Technology of the university of Calcutta ,India. He has 9 international jounal and conference papers published in last 3 years. He has also served as a visiting faculty in the MTech program of Department of Computer Science of National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata, India. His areas of research interests include Web–based Learning, Multimedia Database, Data mining, Software engineering, Artificial Intelligence.
Sandipan Sahu
Sandipan Sahu is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bengal Institute of Technology, India . He has obtained his Master of Technology form West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2007. He has 2 international and national conference paper published in last 4 years. His areas of research interests include Web–based Learning, Data mining, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing.
Ranjan Dasgupta
Ranjan Dasgupta is Professor & Head, Dept. of CSE. National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research, Kolkata, India, Previously he was with Jadavpur University, and also served several Indian IT companies, for five years. He received his B. Tech from,Dept. of Radio Physics & Electronics, M. Tech, & Ph.D from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calcutta,India. His areas of research interests include software,engineering, databases, GIS, distributed computing. Dr.Dasgupta has published around 30 research papers in different International Conferences & Journals. He has also served several other Universities & national & international bodies, World Bank Assisted Projects in various capacities.
