Budget-Aware e-Learning Systems on Cloud Computing Environments: A Genetic Approach
Gamal A. Ebrahim · International Journal of Information and Education Technology · 2012
Cloud computing can be considered as one of the most promising environments for e-learning systems.Unfortunately, services provided by the cloud are not always free.Hence, the primary goal of this paper is to select learning resources that best fit learner's budget dedicated for the e-learning class.In other words, learner gets the best e-learning curriculum that he can afford.The problem is modeled as a constrained optimization problem and a proposed solution based on genetic algorithms is introduced.Simulation study shows that the proposed solution provides results identical to optimal solutions in most cases.