Collaborative use of Disciple to develop an assistant for choosing a PhD advisor.

The Disciple system was used in the IT 803 Instructable Agents course (http://lalab.gmu.edu/it803/) to develop an assistant for choosing a PhD advisor.  Each of the following students developed a different Disciple assistant, considering certain aspects of a potential PhD advisor: Marcel Barbulescu, Cristina Boicu, Xianjun Hao, Vu Le, Dorin Marcu, and Bogdan Stanescu.  Then the knowledge bases of the six agents were integrated into a unified knowledge base.