Personal Agents in Distance Learning Systems

Personal agents are proactive and adaptable intelligent agents that meet the demands of individuals. This kind of agents develops a user's profile and, basing on that profile, performs tasks instead of the user. The usage of personal agents can be a high quality solution for solving the problem of heterogeneity of information systems users and for avoiding information overload, and hence offers itself as an appropriate paradigm for distant learning systems conceptualization and implementation. This paper describes one possible direction in the development of distance learning systems based on personal agents.