Mixed-initiative Control for Teaching and Learning in Disciple

Disciple is an approach to agent development by subject matter experts where an expert teaches a Disciple agent his or her problem solving expertise in a way that resembles how a person teaches another person. This paper presents an overview of the teaching and learning process during which the expert helps Disciple to learn and Disciple helps the expert to teach it, emphasizing the mixed-initiative control of the component agents of Disciple, particularly the Modeling agent, the Rule Learning agent and the Exception-based Ontology Learning agent. It discusses current implementations, evaluation results, lessons learned and future developments.