MADE Project |
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Project Description |
The growth of the
Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for
the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for evaluation of
remote students. The main goal of the MADE Project is to develop a
mobile agents based distance examination system for carrying out evaluation of
remote students.
Some
desirable features in distance evaluation are:
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Ability to cater to all stages of the examination process, viz.,
o Exam setting: examiners set the question
papers
o Distribution
and testing: question papers are presented to the students
o Evaluation
and result compilation: answers are collected, evaluated and results compiled
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Support synchronous, off-line examination of remote students
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Delivery of dynamic content and support for push communication
Ability to incorporate subjective questions
Traditional
Computer-based Testing or Internet-based Testing schemes cater to only a subset
of these requirements. They also have other disadvantages as a result of which
their extension to the full gamut of distance examination is cumbersome and
ineffective. Hence there is a need for new technologies for implementing such
systems.
MADE
is one
such attempt that uses Mobile Agents as the underlying technology to implement
the distance examination system.
Publications:
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Vikram Jamwal and
Sridhar Iyer. MADE: A mobile agent based
system for distance evaluation. In Proc. Of IEEE Intl. Symposium on
Applications and the Internet. Florida, USA, Jan 2003.
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E.C. Vijil and Sridhar
Iyer. Identifying Collusions:
Co-operating malicious hosts in mobile agent itineraries. In Proc. Of
Workshop on Security in Mobile Multi-agent Systems. Bologna, Italy, July 2002.
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Vikram Jamwal and
Sridhar Iyer. MADE: Mobile agents for
distance evaluation. In Proc. Of ACM Intl. Conference on Mobile Agents
(Poster Session). Atlanta, USA, Dec 2001.
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Rahul Jha and Sridhar
Iyer. Performance Evaluation of mobile
agents for e-commerce applications. In Proc. Of Intl Conference on High
Performance Computing, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2001.
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Vikram Jamwal and
Sridhar Iyer. Mobile agents for effective
structuring of large-scale distributed applications. In Proc. Of
Workshop on Software Engg and Mobility, ACM Intl Conference on Software Engg.,
Toronto, Canada, May 2001.
MADE is a proof-of-concept prototype implementation of a mobile agents based a distance evaluation system. The research work was carried out at the KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay. The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology, India.
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Last Updated: March 2003 |