background and purpose: in education of medical science courses, there has been a growing orientation towards replacing traditional teaching in with e-learning education. since the modern system of education is based on self-directed learning, e-learning requires special powers to deal with new-emerging challenges and professionally encounter the learning environment. the purpose of the present...

fuzzy cognitive maps (fcms) have successfully been applied in numerous domains to show the relations between essential components in complex systems. in this paper, a novel learning method is proposed to construct fcms based on historical data and by using meta-heuristic: genetic algorithm (ga), simulated annealing (sa), and tabu search (ts). implementation of the proposed method has demonstrat...

literature review indicates that systemic agricultural human resource development interventions are rarely carried out in developing countries, and limited knowledge exists about how successful they are. learning transfer is the generalization of material learned, such as skills acquired or knowledge gained in training, back to the job. the main aim of this study was to analyze factors influenc...

the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...

evaluation of nursing student's perception toward the use of audience response systems (ars) in the classroom teaching process     baghaei r [1] *, zareie f [2] , rasouli d [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 4 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jun, 2013  abstract  background & aims : the use of innovative learning methods in nursing schools is necessary to improve the educational process. using audien...

this paper illustrates the design and implementation of fain (filtering agent for internet) based on the gaia methodology and the auml notation. the proposed system generates and maintains a user profile by learning from examples that are judged and classified by the user during the training stage. a learning algorithm which is based on the baldwin effect that combines learning with evolution i...