Title :
A study on E-Learning systems integration based on multi-agent technology
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Math. & Comput. Sci., JiangHan Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
In recent years, there has been a growing interest to implement the integration of E-Learning systems running on different environments. And most of E-Learning systems are being designed based on client/server, peer to peer; and recently agent architectures. These systems have major drawbacks because of their limitations in scalability, availability, distribution of computing power and storage system, as well as sharing information between users that contribute in these systems. This paper will use the multi-agent technology to implement the cooperation and secure resource sharing among distributed individuals and institutions, and the different E-Learning systems. Every E-Learning system is encapsulated as an agent, then these agents can cooperate to implement a certain goal task, and at the same time, an E-Learning system integration platform is implemented by the integration of these agents.
Keywords :
access protocols; computer aided instruction; data encapsulation; multi-agent systems; peer-to-peer computing; security of data; e-learning system; information integration; information sharing; multi-agent technology; object access protocol; resource security; system encapsulation; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer science education; Distributed computing; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Mathematics; Mobile computing; Resource management; Scalability; E-Learning system; information integration; multi-agent; simple object access protocol; system encapsulation;
Conference_Titel :
Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6367-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529245