"Campus" - An Agent-Based Platform for Distance Education.
Dirk Westhoff, Claus Unger · 1998
: Campus supports the communication and co-operation between a distance teaching university and its students in an Internet environment. While students usually connect quite rarely to the Internet, they can continuously be represented in the Internet by their individual autonomous agents which can fulfil a variety of tasks for their owners. Campus is being implemented with the help of the Agent Application Programming Interface (AAPI) package. AAPI is an extension of the Java Class Hierarchy and has been developed at the University of Hagen; it supports the design and implementation of systems of mobile, autonomous agents and is based upon decentralised control structures. Derived from the AAPI package, Campus offers a variety of Campus Intercommunication Agents. 1 Introduction The University of Hagen is a distance teaching university with about 55.000 students, most of them spread all over Germany, some of them even over the whole world. Most of these students have access to...