Education in Accounting using an Interactive System

Patrut, Bogdan (2010): Education in Accounting using an Interactive System. Published in: BRAND. Broad Research in Accounting, Negotiation, and Distribution , Vol. 1, No. 1 (10 March 2010)

Abstract

This paper represents a summary of a research report and the results of developing an educational software, including a multi-agent system for teaching accounting bases and financial accounting. The paper describes the structure of the multi-agent system, defined as a complex network of s-agents. Each s-agent contains 6 pedagogical agents and a coordinator agent. We have defined a new architecture (BeSGOTE) that extends the BDI architecture for intelligent agents and we have defined a mixing-up relation among the accounts, presenting the way in which it can be used for testing students.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Computer Aided Education, Multi-Agent System, Artificial Intelligence, Accounting Education
• Subjects: M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M5 - Personnel Economics > M53 - Training; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A20 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C88 - Other Computer Software

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