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What is Distributed Laboratory

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Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
A laboratory that utilizes resources on a set of computers inter-connected through the network. To allow the students to access these resources and perform the lab exercises, a distributed laboratory usually has an online interface that is implemented by a client/server model. A distributed laboratory is often used to design lab exercises for parallel computing and grid computing courses.
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Exploiting Agent Technology
Hong Lin (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch054
Abstract
Agent-oriented design has become one of the most active areas in the field of software engineering. The agent concept provides a focal point for accountability and responsibility for coping with the complexity of software systems both during design and execution (Yu, 2001). It is deemed that software engineering challenges in developing large-scale distributed systems can be overcome by an agent-based approach (Paquette, 2001). In this approach, a distributed system can be modeled as a set of autonomous, cooperating agents that communicate intelligently with one another, automate or semi-automate functional operations, and interact with human users at the right time with the right information.
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