TY - GEN
T1 - An agent-oriented approach to modeling distributed learning systems
AU - Lin, Fuhua
AU - Holt, Pete
AU - Leung, Steve
AU - Maton, Chris
AU - Holmberg, Conrad
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to modeling software systems for distributed learning to increase the functionality and flexibility of the systems and meet the requirements from the resource-oriented nature of distributed learning environments. We model a distributed learning software system as a multi-agent system using an open collaborative agent system architecture. To overcome the difficulty in deciding what agents we should construct and knowing their relationships, we start the modeling process with identifying the main educational components and the dependency of these components. Meanwhile, in order to facilitate specifying conversation patterns and implementing conversation managers, we examine the workflow of the educational tasks in distributed learning environments. We believe that this approach can be an important step to overcome the software engineering challenges arose in large-scale distributed adaptive learning environments (DALE).
AB - This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to modeling software systems for distributed learning to increase the functionality and flexibility of the systems and meet the requirements from the resource-oriented nature of distributed learning environments. We model a distributed learning software system as a multi-agent system using an open collaborative agent system architecture. To overcome the difficulty in deciding what agents we should construct and knowing their relationships, we start the modeling process with identifying the main educational components and the dependency of these components. Meanwhile, in order to facilitate specifying conversation patterns and implementing conversation managers, we examine the workflow of the educational tasks in distributed learning environments. We believe that this approach can be an important step to overcome the software engineering challenges arose in large-scale distributed adaptive learning environments (DALE).
KW - Agent-oriented modeling
KW - Distributed learning
KW - Software engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904194970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904194970
SN - 0889863237
SN - 9780889863231
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
SP - 124
EP - 129
BT - Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
T2 - 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002
Y2 - 4 November 2002 through 6 November 2002
ER -