(IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security,Vol. 8, No. 8, November 2010
Fuzzy expert system for evaluation of students and online exams
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Mohammed E. Abd-Alazeem
Computer science department,Faculty of computers and information,Mansoura Egypt,mmandouh_work@yahoo.com
Abstract
- In this paper we will introduce an expertsystem for evaluation of online exam. We use fuzzysystem for classifying students based on their usagedata and the final marks obtained in their respectivecourses. We have used real data from nine Moodlecourses with Mansoura University Pharmacy studentsand apply techniques on two hundred students. Thisexpert system will be able to facilitate education andplay the role to play the role of virtual intelligentteacher referring to student capabilities by followingthe feedback mechanisms and will evaluate the onlineexams and questions to measure the difficulty level of exams.The main components of this expert system areInference Engine, Knowledge Acquisition Facility andKnowledge-base that construct back-end of thesystem. We realize the model by a fuzzy rule-basedexpert system with its inference engine that usesvarious inference methods for education.
Keywords
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Fuzzy rule base, Knowledge base, Inferenceengine
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INTRODUCTIONModern information management systemsenable the recording and the management of datausing sophisticated data models and a rich set of management tools. In the context of educationalsystems, the information typically includes detailsabout learning material, the tasks and the objectives,the course information, the contact information, theteacher and the student profiles, and the informationrelated to student assignments, the tests, the grades,and other records[1].In this paper, we seek means to model theimprecision of information and simplify the accessto information systems, in terms of fuzzy modeling.The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the knowledge base of expert system for student grades assessment Section 3 discuss thecomponents of fuzzy rule based controller. Section 4
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Sherief I. Barakat
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Information system department,Faculty of computers and information,Mansoura ,Egypt,sherifiib@yahoo.com describes the results of the assessment students andonline exams. Section 5 shows the feedback of evaluating students and online exams. Section 6concludes the work and indicates future researchdirections.II.
Knowledgebase expert systemAll needed data is acquired from a teacher andstored in a “Knowledge Based” which should beable to face student training and their up growing problem. [2] We use knowledge base expert systemas follow to model knowledge domain “fig.1”Figure1. Knowledge base expert systemGlobal Data Base consists of student state variables,teaching state variables and exam state variables
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Student state variable (xi):
x1-Exercise grade for every studentx2-Exam grade for every studentx3- Interesting coursex4- Student level
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Teaching state variable (yi):
y1- Difficulty level examy2-Teaching contenty3-Teaching methody4-Teaching scheduley5- Degree of course usagesy6- Degree of creating motivation.
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Exam state variable (zi)
z1- Exam average gradez2- Exam levelFuzzy logic was primarily designed to represent andreason with some particular form of knowledge.Fuzzy logic is powerful problem solvingmethodology with a myriad of applications inembedded control and information processing.Fuzzy systems are mathematically based systemsthat enable computers to deal withimprecise, ambiguous, or uncertain information andsituations.Fuzzy set theory was proposed in 1965 byZadeh to help computers reason with uncertainand ambiguous information. Zadeh proposedfuzzy technology as a means to model theuncertainty of natural language [3]. Hereasoned that many difficult problems can beexpressed much more easily in terms of linguistic variables. Linguistic variables arewords and attributes which are used to describecertain aspects of the real world. Oneimportant feature of linguistic variables is thenotion of their utility as an expression of datacompression. Zadeh describes this ascompression granulation. He argues that this isimportant because it is more general than useof discrete values. This point means that anagent using linguistic variables may be able todeal with more continuous and robustdescriptions of reality and problem spaces. Our approach is to design a fuzzy rule base systemto control training process.III.
FUZZY RULE BASED
This system is designed for evaluating andteaching the students so that the resulting controlsystem will reliably and safely achieve high performance operation.A block diagram of fuzzy system is shown in“Fig.2” Basically in fuzzy control system, there arefour major stages to accomplish the control process:[4]
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Fuzzy input and output variables & their fuzzy value
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Fuzzy rule base
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Fuzzy inference engine
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Fuzzification and defuzzification modulesFigure2. Fuzzy System
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Fuzzy Inference Process
A fuzzy system works similar to aconventional system: it accepts an input value, performs some calculations, and generates an outputvalue. This process is called the Fuzzy InferenceProcess and works in three steps illustrated in“Fig.3” [5]:
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Fuzzification where a crisp input is translatedinto a fuzzy value.
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Rule Evaluation, where the fuzzy output truthvalues are computed, and
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Defuzzification where the fuzzy output istranslated to a crisp value.Figure3. Fuzzy System Process
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Fuzzification
Fuzzification where a crisp input is translatedinto a fuzzy value.The membership functions defined on the inputvariables are applied to their actual values todetermining the degree of truth.For example for the fuzzification crisp inputs, x1and y1 and determine the degree to which theseinputs belong to each of the appropriate fuzzy sets(Figure 3).At first it gets inputs and then fuzzifies them. After fuzzification, make decision through fuzzy inferenceengine according to fuzzy rule based system.
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The Fuzzy Inference engine fuzzy rule based:
This is an interface for fuzzifying the user-requested parameters of the test items. The fuzzified parameters, along with a set of fuzzy rules, are thensent to an expert system to perform the inference process.
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