The relations between Technologies for Human Learning and Agents

In this position paper we review the historical emergence of Agents and the current developments around our integrated Web and Agent platform. The focus of the paper is to show that research results in Intelligent Tutoring and Learning Environments are strongly related to most of current hot issues in Agents and Agent Communication Languages, and vice- versa: that realistic dialogues for Human Learning will be generated by advances in models and tools for Agent Communication.

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