Educational contents sharing and retrieving systems using mobile agent

The mobile agent is receiving the attention as a new technique to retrieve and to share the distributed contents on Web-based educational systems. Retrieval using a mobile agent uses the method that delivers the agent to accomplish a search in the direct server. This study proposed the model of a retrieval system that shares and searches the distributed educational contents of the bulletin board and newsgroup by using the mobile agent. In order to evaluate the efficiencies of the system that is proposed, we did the comparison test on the search model of the existing and proposing system. By a test result, we confirmed network traffic of the proposed system are diminished. Moreover we gave proof of the fact that the optimum search time of the mobile agent-based system is shortened.