Title :
Using explanations of agents to increase understanding of simulations for tutoring police allocation
Author :
Vasconcelos, Eurico ; Furtado, Vasco
Author_Institution :
Mestrado em Informatica Aplicada - MIA, Univ. of Fortaleza-Unifor, Fortaleza, Brazil
Abstract :
This article describes the ExpertCop tutorial system, a simulator of crime in an urban region. In ExpertCop, the students (police officers) configure and allocate an available police force according to a selected geographic region and then interact with the simulation. The student interprets the simulation results with the help of an intelligent tutor, the pedagogical agent, observing how crime behaves in the presence of the allocated preventive policing. The pedagogical agent implements a strategy of explanation of the agent´s individual behavior to make simulated phenomena better understood.
Keywords :
computer based training; intelligent tutoring systems; police; software agents; teaching; ExpertCop tutorial system; crime simulation; geographic region; intelligent tutor; pedagogical agent; police allocation tutoring; police force allocation; police officers; preventive policing; software agents; students; urban region; Costs; Databases; Education; Geographic Information Systems; Graphics; Information systems; Intelligent agent; Multiagent systems; Resource management; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005. ICALT 2005. Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2338-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2005.299
