TY - GEN
T1 - Commercializing a multiagent-supported collaborative system
AU - Soh, Leen Kiat
AU - Jiang, Hong
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this paper, we describe our effort and lessons learned in commercializing an innovative infrastructure to support student participation and collaboration and help the instructor manage large or distance classrooms using multiagent system intelligence. The system, called I-MINDS, has a host of intelligent agents for each classroom: a teacher agent ranks and categorizes real-time questions from the students and collects statistics on student participation, a number of group agents that each maintains a collaborative group and facilitate student discussions, and a student agent for each student that profiles a student and finds compatible students to form the student's "buddy group". Our commercialization plan is three-fold: (1) to strengthen our understanding of potential customers, (2) to understand our competitors and alternative products, and (3) to examine and estimate the market potential for I-MINDS. To accomplish the above, we have conducted experiments to further investigate the impact of I-MINDS in actual use, comprehensive research on existing products and technologies, secure legal protection of our technology, plug-and-play I-MINDS for various demonstrations to companies for joint research and development.
AB - In this paper, we describe our effort and lessons learned in commercializing an innovative infrastructure to support student participation and collaboration and help the instructor manage large or distance classrooms using multiagent system intelligence. The system, called I-MINDS, has a host of intelligent agents for each classroom: a teacher agent ranks and categorizes real-time questions from the students and collects statistics on student participation, a number of group agents that each maintains a collaborative group and facilitate student discussions, and a student agent for each student that profiles a student and finds compatible students to form the student's "buddy group". Our commercialization plan is three-fold: (1) to strengthen our understanding of potential customers, (2) to understand our competitors and alternative products, and (3) to examine and estimate the market potential for I-MINDS. To accomplish the above, we have conducted experiments to further investigate the impact of I-MINDS in actual use, comprehensive research on existing products and technologies, secure legal protection of our technology, plug-and-play I-MINDS for various demonstrations to companies for joint research and development.
KW - Cooperative learning
KW - Distance education
KW - Multiagent
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U2 - 10.1145/1160633.1160928
DO - 10.1145/1160633.1160928
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34247221541
SN - 1595933034
SN - 9781595933034
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents
SP - 1522
EP - 1529
BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
T2 - Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Y2 - 8 May 2006 through 12 May 2006
ER -