Intelligent Software Agents Mediating the Pair Participation in a Distributed Intelligent Pair-Software Development Environment

Intelligent software agents have been becoming common in collaborative learning systems. In a previous study, this article´s authors described the project and implementation of distributed intelligent pair-software development environment named AIDDES (in Portuguese: Ambiente Inteligente Distribuido de Desenvolvimento Emparelhado de software). In this system, software developers work side by side on the program project and coding forming a pairing session. To mediate the team member´s participation, the system counts on the help of Intelligent Agents for Verifying the Relevance of Comments and Identifiers (Agents that parse comments and identifiers on the produced source-code, intervening whenever necessary questioning irrelevant comments and identifiers) and Intelligent agents of mediation (agents that evaluate the amount and relevance of forum and chat messages posted during a pairing session, intervening whenever necessary questioning the pair participation on the session´s discussion topics).