Timely Consistency of Replicated Unified Course Contents
Omar Batarfi · 2013
In academia, it may be the case that group of instructors teaching a unified course and they share course content in limited period of time. In academia, consistency not only influences the performance and availability of the systems, but also influences overall teaching quality because students should get the same information regardless of teacher. The main contradiction of consistency is modification shared course contents by instructors in separate. This paper proposes a collaborative framework of interacting agents, capable of concurrent execution of consistency checks. This framework provides a continuous consistency for replicas of the course content. In next section, the related work for consistency detection is presented. Then, it discusses the detailed design of agent inconsistency detection module, the core components of this framework, which can detect inconsistency among shared course content in a timely manner. The proposed agent inconsistency detection module is evaluated via prototype of consistency management system, which shows that this module can significantly reduce the time to detect inconsistency among shared course content without adding much maintenance cost.