FORMALIZING A MODEL TO REPRESENT AND VISUALIZE CONCEPT SPACES IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

Antonina Dattolo, Flaminia L. Luccio

2008

Abstract

Zz-structures offer graph-centric views capable of representing contextual interconnections among different information. In this paper we use these structures in order to represent and visualize concept spaces in e-learning environments, and we present their formal analytic description in terms of graph theory. In particular, we focus our attention on the formal description of two views (H and I views), and we extend these notions to a number n > 2 of dimensions. We also apply both this formal description, and the particular properties of zz-structures, to an example in the Web-based education field.

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Dattolo A. and L. Luccio F. (2008). FORMALIZING A MODEL TO REPRESENT AND VISUALIZE CONCEPT SPACES IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5, pages 339-346. DOI: 10.5220/0001525803390346


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@conference{webist08,
author={Antonina Dattolo and Flaminia L. Luccio},
title={FORMALIZING A MODEL TO REPRESENT AND VISUALIZE CONCEPT SPACES IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={339-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001525803390346},
isbn={978-989-8111-26-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - FORMALIZING A MODEL TO REPRESENT AND VISUALIZE CONCEPT SPACES IN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-8111-26-5
AU - Dattolo A.
AU - L. Luccio F.
PY - 2008
SP - 339
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0001525803390346