Knowledge Representation and Management in ActiveMath
Abstract:
ActiveMath is an open web-based learning environment for mathematics. It
dynamically generates interactive mathematical courses adapted to the
student's goals, preferences, capabilities, and knowledge. Its content is
represented in an extended OMDoc which in turn is an extension of
the OpenMath XML-language.
ActiveMath is the first system that uses OMDoc. It makes use of this
knowledge representation in several knowledge management tasks, among them the
Web-presentation of mathematical text including formulae, the communication
with the integrated mathematical systems, the user-adaptive
composition of a course, the dynamic generation of learning suggestions, and
the dictionary browsing.
The bias of the knowledge representation and management towards mathematics is obvious in ActiveMath because it meets the challenge of the presentation of mathematical formulae on the Web
together with definitions, proofs, and exercises using mathematical systems.
Published:
Special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence,
Kluwer Academic Press
, 2002