Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Education Portal
for Secondary
School
eLearning in Software
Engineering (eLSE)
DeLC Test Center
(DeTC)
DeLC Portal
Creativity Assistant
(CA)
Agent Village (AV)
Info Stations (IS)
3rd Tier:
InfoStations Centre
(with Profile Managers and Global Services' Content
Repository)
2nd Tier:
InfoStations
(with cached copies of recently used user/service
profiles, and Local Services' Content Repository)
1st Tier:
Mobile Devices
(with Intelligent Agents acting as Personal
Assistants for mobile users)
Fig. 2.
Distributed eLearning Center
tailored to suit them. The following network architecture enables mobile users to access
various mLearning services, via a set of intelligent wireless access points, or InfoStations,
deployed in key points across the University Campus. The InfoStation-based network
consists of three tiers as shown in Figure 3.
The first tier encompass the user mobile devices (cell phones, laptops, PDAs), equipped
with intelligent agents acting as Personal Assistants to users. The Personal Assistant gathers
information about the operating environment onboard the mobile device, as well as
soliciting information about the user. Supplied with this information, the InfoStation can
make better decisions on applicable services and content to deliver to the Personal Assistant.
