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As the development of information technology and intelligent tutoring, web-based learning has been widely used nowadays to help people acquire knowledge in a flexible way. Especially, web-based learning services can greatly facilitate farmers to gain knowledge on farming. It is observed that learning goals and preferences tend to be localized for farming knowledge due to similar climate and soil conditions in an area. Therefore, geographical information can be utilized to recommend agricultural learning resources. In this paper, an agricultural learning resource recommendation approach is proposed using agent-based simulation that takes geographical information into account. The agent simulation environment is introduced. A distance-aware agent reputation model is presented. A multi-agent collaborative recommendation approach is proposed. Simulation experiments are conducted for the evaluation of the proposed approach. The results show good performance of it.
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This paper is supported by the monitoring statistics Project on Agricultural and rural resources “Agricultural Monitoring, Early Warning and Informatization” funded by Ministry of Agriculture of China, the Innovative Talents Project “Key Techniques of Main Agricultural Products Market Monitoring And Early Warning” funded by Ministry of Agriculture of China, the Science and Technology Innovation Project “Innovation Team on Agricultural Production Management Digitization Technology” (CAAS-ASTIP-2015-AII-02) funded by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and sub-project “Agricultural Data Collection Methods and Technology Analysis” of project of Ministry of Agricultural of China “Monitoring and Statistics Fund for Agriculture and Rural Resources”.
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Chen, W., Li, Z. (2017). Agent-Based Simulation for Agricultural Learning Resource Recommendation Based on Geographical Similarities. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_59
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