A Virtual Laboratory for Macro Universities Using Mobile Agent Techniques

作     者：C. R. DOW C. C. SHEN J. H. LIN S. C. CHEN C. Y. LIN 

作者机构：Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science Feng Chia University Taichung Taiwan R. O. C. Department of Automatic Control Engineering Feng Chia University Taichung Taiwan R. O. C. 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages》 

年 卷 期：2002年第15卷第1期

页      面：1-18页

学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Virtual Laboratory Macro University Mobile Agent Aglet Wrapper 

摘      要：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 at a digital circuit laboratory. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.