An Introductory of a Content Provider Agent in Higher Learning Institutions
Software agents, nowadays has become most favorable
technology in developing computer systems. Software
agent can be used to quickly and easily build integrated
agent-based systems where agents can be applied in all
domains of interest and one of them is in education. In the
higher learning institution, lecturers are optimize with
workloads such as lecturing, lecture preparation, student
consultation and lecture content/module preparation etc.
Looking at the current ways of materials preparation done
by lecturers, the process might take hours, days and even
months in order to prepare impressive teaching materials
for students. In order to minimize the workload, therefore
the author had proposed and developed a content provider
agent (CPA) in order to assist lecturer in preparing
teaching contents as requested. Evaluation is done by
comparing the percentage of effective search process done
by the CPA and the search done via search engines. The
result is promising where the proposed agent satisfy the
objectives of the CPA developed.
Keywords: Software agents, CPA, Agent-based System, Agent technologies, Prometheus
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