Expert system design for educational and vocational guidance, using a multi-agent system

This paper presents the design of a multi-expert system to help in educational and vocational guidance by using a multi-agent approach. This approach, which is at the connection of several areas, especially artificial intelligence, seeks to distribute a problem on a set of entities called agents that communicate with each other to coordinate their behavior and cooperate to solve a problem. The problem to be dealt with in this article is that of educational and career guidance where different types of knowledge come from four sources: pedagogical expert, psychological expert, sociological expert and economic expert. In addition to the four mentioned experts, other two experts are added which are a coaching expert and the system supervisor. The latter, that organizes tasks between agents, is considered as expert in the sense that he has its own database of rules. Such a system is a tool for decision support that allows students and job seekers to build their professional projects while taking into account the various factors involved in the process of educational and vocational guidance.