The document discusses pedagogical agents and their use in educational systems. It describes an application called Parmenide that uses a virtual tutor agent to assess students in transport security fields. The agent provides questions of varying difficulty and importance to students and provides feedback based on their answers using fuzzy logic systems. The goal is to simulate a teacher's behavior and provide an interactive learning experience for students.

1. Pedagogical agents T he experience of Consorzio FOR.COM. Mikail Feituri ICT manager Consorzio FOR.COM. Rome, 23 October 2008

7. First Fuzzy inference engine FIS 1 Importance Difficulty Fastness Correct / Incorrect Knowledge depth It defines a learning path for the student

9. It provides the score carried out by a user when he / she answered a question. Second Fuzzy inference engine FIS 2 Importance Difficulty Fastness Correct / Incorrect Score

10. It defines the verbal and non verbal tutor behaviour FIS 3 Cumulative score Knowledge Depth (if answer is right) Verbal and non verbal behaviour (facial expressions) Score (if answer is wrong) Third Fuzzy inference engine