What is Light Weight Agent

The creditability of an e-Learning system depends on its content, services and presentation of the material to the learners. Besides providing material on demand, an e-Learning system also manages knowledge for future use. It is observed that the learning material available on different locations may be reused in a proper way. The work presented here discusses generic design of an e-Learning system with various reusable learning material repositories. The architecture described here uses light weight mobile agents in order to access these repositories by taking help of fuzzy user profile. With notion of the fuzzy user profile, the system knows more about users' need and can present customized content to the users. Besides the architecture of the e-Learning system, the chapter also discusses the necessary concepts about the fuzzy logic and agent based systems, in depth literature survey, structure of the user profile, fuzzy membership function and design of the light weight mobile agent with necessary implementation details. At the end, the chapter concludes with the applications, advantages and future scope of the research work possible in the domain.