A Virtual Laboratory for Macro Universities Using Mobile Agent Techniques

• Main Authors: CHIEN-CHUNG SHEN, 沈建忠
• Other Authors: CHYI-REN DOW
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gdwu4w

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 資訊工程所 === 90 === This work designs, develops and implements a virtual laboratory for digital circuit design in Macro Universities that can create a rich learning environment for students from all over the world. Our system consists of four parts: agent execution environments, mobile agents, wrapper agents and experimental platforms. Mobile agents are received and executed in the agent execution environment, which provides locations and other resources for the mobile agents. The wrapper agent acts as a middleware for the mobile agent and the experimental platform. The experimental platform is an existing application program that could be a learning program, such as a CAI tool or a design tool, such as a CAD system. The major merit of our system is that it enables network capability for a standalone program without the need for the source code of the original program. The prototype of our virtual laboratory is targeted to a digital circuit laboratory. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.