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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE202</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2012.10</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>A Stochastic Approach for Automatic and Dynamic Modeling of Students&#039; Learning Styles in Adaptive Educational Systems</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>DORÇA</surname>
                    <given-names>Fabiano Azevedo</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:fabiano@facom.ufu.br">fabiano@facom.ufu.br</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Faculty of Computer Science, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)
Campus Santa Mônica – Bloco 1B – Sala 1B148
Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2.121 – Bairro Santa Mônica, CEP 38400-902 – Uberlândia/MG, Brazil</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>LIMA</surname>
                    <given-names>Luciano Vieira</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:vieira@ufu.br">vieira@ufu.br</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UFU, Brazil</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>FERNANDES</surname>
                    <given-names>Márcia Aparecida</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:marcia@facom.ufu.br">marcia@facom.ufu.br</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_002"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_002">Faculty of Computer Science, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)
Campus Santa Mônica – Bloco 1B – Sala 1B148
Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2.121 – Bairro Santa Mônica, CEP 38400-902 – Uberlândia/MG, Brazil</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>LOPES</surname>
                    <given-names>Carlos Roberto</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:crlopes@facom.ufu.br">crlopes@facom.ufu.br</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_003"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_003">Faculty of Computer Science, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)
Campus Santa Mônica – Bloco 1B – Sala 1B148
Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2.121 – Bairro Santa Mônica, CEP 38400-902 – Uberlândia/MG, Brazil</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                                                                                <volume>11</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>191</fpage>
                        <lpage>212</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2012</year>
        </pub-date>

                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>Considering learning and how to improve students&#039; performances, an adaptive educational system must know how an individual learns best. In this context, this work presents an innovative approach for student modeling through probabilistic learning styles combination. Experiments have shown that our approach is able to automatically detect and precisely adjust students&#039; learning styles, based on the non-deterministic and non-stationary aspects of learning styles. Because of the probabilistic and dynamic aspects enclosed in automatic detection of learning styles, our approach gradually and constantly adjusts the student model, taking into account students&#039; performances, obtaining a fine-tuned student model. Promising results were obtained from experiments, and some of them are discussed in this paper.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>dynamic student modeling</kwd>
                        <kwd>learning styles</kwd>
                        <kwd>probabilistic student model</kwd>
                        <kwd>adaptive educational systems</kwd>
                        <kwd>e-learning</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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