AN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM BASED ON A DOMAIN ONTOLOGY FOR THE DESIGN OF LEAD-LAG CONTROLLERS

The modeling of domains is today a technique with growing acceptance into the software community. Domain models allow the information to be represented in the computer at higher abstraction levels than in the usual applications, so improving the human to machine and machine to machine interactions. This paper deals with the application of such modeling paradigm to the control engineering education field, showing how the knowledge of this domain can be represented in a conceptual structure called ontology which is used as the base for building an Intelligent Tutoring System, a software tool used in the emerging field of e-learning.