Ontological interoperability of learning objects: a hybrid graphical-neural approach
ICCOMP'05 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
Self-organizing feature map for cluster analysis in multi-disease diagnosis
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Adaptive hypermedia learning systems aim to improve the usability of hypermedia by personalizing domain knowledge to the studentsý needs (represented by the student model). This study investigates student modeling via machine-learning techniques. Two techniques are applied and compared to provide meaningful analysis and class labels of the student clusters. The first technique is clustering of the student data set using principal component analysis. The second technique involves two-levels of clustering: the self-organizing map at the first level and principal component analysis at the second level. Cluster analysis via these two techniques will determine the number of clusters, the class labels based on the degree of variance and eigenvectors, which can represent the knowledge states of each cluster or group of students. It is found that implementing the self-organizing map as a preprocessor to principal component analysis improves the quality of cluster analysis. Findings are supported by experimental results.