SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF INTEGRATING A CLIENT- SERVER ARCHITECTURE WITH A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM IN THE EDUCATIONAL DOMAIN
Adolfo Riera Alvarez, Eduardo Sánchez Vila, xose anton vila sobrino, Manuel Lama Penín, Elke Hinrichs, Rudolf Ruland · IADIS AC · 2005
This paper presents the middleware developed under the EUME project to integrate the EUME environment, an Intelligent Learning Management System aimed to support classroom activities, with the BSCW, a 'shared workspace' system that enables collaboration over the Web. This middleware allows the EUME multi-agent system to send information to, and get feedback from, the BSCW client-server system by means of a XML-RPC based communication. The motivation behind this integration stems from the need to improve the learning process initiated in the classroom with an infrastructure supporting follow-on activities based on cooperative work between remote students.