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        <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">INFE143</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2009.06</article-id>
                        <article-categories>
            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Teaching Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming in a Competitive Environment</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>RIBEIRO</surname>
                    <given-names>Pedro</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:pribeiro@dcc.fc.up.pt">pribeiro@dcc.fc.up.pt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">CRACS &amp; INESC-Porto LA DCC - Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto R. Campo Alegre, 1021/1055, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>SIMÕES</surname>
                    <given-names>Hugo</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:hrsimoes@dcc.fc.up.pt">hrsimoes@dcc.fc.up.pt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory DCC - Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto R. Campo Alegre, 1021/1055, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>FERREIRA</surname>
                    <given-names>Michel</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:michel@dcc.fc.up.pt">michel@dcc.fc.up.pt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_002"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_002">Instituto de Telecomunicações DCC - Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto R. Campo Alegre, 1021/1055, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                                                    <volume>8</volume>
                                <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>85</fpage>
                        <lpage>100</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2009</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>Motivation plays a key role in the learning process. This paper describes an experience in the context of undergraduate teaching of Artificial Intelligence at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences in the University of Porto. A sophisticated competition framework, which involved Prolog programmed contenders and game servers, including an appealing GUI, was developed to motivate students on the deepening of the topics covered in class. We report on the impact that such a competitive setup caused on students&#039; commitment, which surpassed our most optimistic expectations.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>education</kwd>
                        <kwd>artificial intelligence</kwd>
                        <kwd>logic programming</kwd>
                        <kwd>teaching frameworks</kwd>
                        <kwd>competitive learning</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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