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18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'04) Volume 1
A Multi-Agent System for Online Course Content Management
Fukuoka, Japan
March 29-March 31
ISBN: 0-7695-2051-0
Ryosuke Komatsu, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
This paper presents a multi-agent system to assist a teacher managing his/her course contents placed on web servers. In this system there is a set of agents and every agent may work independently from or collaboratively with others. Once generated, an agent can reside in a teacher's daily working computer (called administration host) or a proxy host, and can move between the two hosts. Each agent is devoted to one piece of job and all of them, as a whole, coordinately conduct a sequence of management work during the entire process of teaching a course. A teacher may administrate agents via a specific system shell on his/her administration host, or a usual web browser on another computer/PDA/mobile phone. The system has been carefully modularized, and thus a new type of agent, if necessary, can be relatively easily developed and quickly incorporated into the system to further enhance or extend its management capability.
Index Terms:
distance learning, course management, agent, mobility
Citation:
Ryosuke Komatsu, Jianhua Ma, Qun Jin, "A Multi-Agent System for Online Course Content Management," aina, vol. 1, pp.183, 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'04) Volume 1, 2004
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