An Ontology-Aware Authoring Tool - Functional structure and guidance generation -

This paper describes an ontology-aware authoring tool for intelligent training systems. The major advantages of the authoring tool are: (1) To provide human-friendly primitives in terms of which users can easily describe their own models of a task (descriptiveness, readability). (2) To simulate the abstract behavior of the model in terms of conceptual level primitives (conceptual level operationality). (3) To verify the consistency of models. In this paper, we show the total image of an ontology-aware authoring system, describe the functional structure and the guidance generation mechanism in detail with an emphasis on the roles which the ontology plays. Finally, we introduce the intelligent training system SmartTrainer's Authoring Tools (SmartTrainer/AT) and its realization as an example.