TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-agent system for online course content management
AU - Komatsu, Ryosuke
AU - Ma, Jianhua
AU - Jin, Qun
PY - 2004/7/6
Y1 - 2004/7/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Agent
KW - Course management
KW - Distance learning
KW - Mobility
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U2 - 10.1109/AINA.2004.1283908
DO - 10.1109/AINA.2004.1283908
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:3042538802
SN - 0769520510
SN - 9780769520513
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (AINA)
SP - 183
EP - 188
BT - Proceedings - 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2004 Volume 1 (Regional Papers)
A2 - Barolli, L.
T2 - Proceedings - 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2004
Y2 - 29 March 2004 through 31 March 2004
ER -