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User Modeling and Problem-Space Representation in the Tutor Runtime Engine

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Our efforts to commercialize Cognitive Tutors have led us to a runtime representation that is significantly different from the production system representation used in the Tutor Development Kit. This paper describes our new representation, which we call the Tutor Runtime Environment (TRE).

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Ritter, S., Blessing, S., Wheeler, L. (2003). User Modeling and Problem-Space Representation in the Tutor Runtime Engine. In: Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A., de Rosis, F. (eds) User Modeling 2003. UM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_45

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