A fuzzy similarity based approach for intelligent web based e-learning

In this paper, an intelligent system for web based eLearning is proposed which analyzes students’ knowledge capacity by applying clustering technique. This system uses fuzzy logic and k-means clustering algorithm to arrange the documents according to the level of their performance. Moreover, a new domain ontology alignment technique is proposed that uses contextual information of the knowledge sources from the e-Learning domain for effective decision making. The proposed ontology alignment method has been empirically tested in an e-Learning environment and the experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than the existing methods in terms of precision and recall. The salient contributions of this paper are the use of Jaccard Similarity, fuzzy approach for ontology alignment and K-Means clustering algorithm for decision making using decision rules for providing intelligent e-Learning.