Title :
Multiagent approach to control and synchronization of teleeducation in open distributed environment
Author :
Jacak, Witold ; Proll, Karin ; Rozenblit, Jerzy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Software Eng, Polytech.. Univ. of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria
Abstract :
Many multimedia applications will be designed to run on heterogeneous computing environments or will be interconnected to offer multimedia services. However multimedia incorporation proves insufficient for training and education system implementation. Its a main issue that students or training participants not only conduct and record but also have the possibility to communicate their work in an interactive learning environment. For these reasons our research efforts focus on an agent based control system telesession controller for presentation of education units in open and distributed environments. The paper presents the composition of the telepresentations consisting of different multimedia objects like text, graphics, movies, videos and also nonhypermedia objects such as executable mathematical simulation or design tasks in distributed electronic classrooms. We assume that there exists a computer network which consists of peer to peer connected local area networks. One local network represents one virtual electronic class room. The server in one of these networks plays the specific role of the on-line sender of an education session. Other virtual class rooms are active receivers of the telepresentation session
Keywords :
educational computing; local area networks; multi-agent systems; multimedia communication; open systems; synchronisation; telecommunication control; virtual reality; agent based control system; distributed electronic classrooms; education system; executable mathematical simulation; graphics; heterogeneous computing environments; interactive learning environment; local area networks; movies; multiagent approach; multimedia applications; multimedia objects; multimedia services; nonhypermedia objects; open distributed environment; server; teleeducation control; teleeducation synchronization; telesession controller; text; training; videos; virtual electronic class room; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer networks; Computer science education; Control systems; Local area networks; Motion pictures; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Videos;
Conference_Titel :
Africon, 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5546-6
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.1999.820866