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Computational Intelligence Infrastructure in Support for Complex e-Learning Systems

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Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 273))

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Modern on-line learning environments are to enable and scale the involvement of an increasing large number of single/group participants who can geographically be distributed, and who need to transparently share a huge variety of both software and hardware distributed learning resources. As a result, collaborative learning applications are to overcome important non-functional requirements arisen in distributed environments, such as scalability, flexibility, availability, interoperability, and integration of different, heterogeneous, and legacy collaborative learning systems. Therefore, e-Learning applications need to be developed in a way that overcome these demanding requirements as well as provide educational organizations with fast, flexible and effective solutions for the enhancement and improvement of the learning performance and outcomes. In this chapter, an innovative engineering software technique is presented and validated that combines the Generic Programming paradigm and Service-Oriented Architectures for the effective and timely construction of flexible, distributed, scalable, interoperable and robust applications as key aspects to address the current demanding and changing requirements in the current e-Learning domain.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication, Open University of Catalonia, Rambla Poblenou, 156, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Santi Caballé

  2. Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Technical University of Catalonia, Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

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  1. Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Campus Nord, Ed.Omega, C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  2. Department of Computer Sciences Multimedia and Telecommunications, Open University of Catalonia, Rbla. Poblenou. 156, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Santi Caballé  & Thanasis Daradoumis  & 

  3. Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, P.O. Box 2259, 98071-2259, Auburn, Washington, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  4. Department of Information Sciences, Open University of Catalonia, Av. Tibidabo 39-43, 08035, Barcelona, Spain

    Angel Alejandro Juan Perez

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Caballé, S., Xhafa, F. (2010). Computational Intelligence Infrastructure in Support for Complex e-Learning Systems. In: Xhafa, F., Caballé, S., Abraham, A., Daradoumis, T., Juan Perez, A.A. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11224-9_7

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