Utilizing Electronic Institution For Protocol Specification In Agent-Based E-Learning System

This paper describes the specification of interaction
protocol for automating the document downloading and
notification in the e-learning by adopting the Electronic
Institution (EI) infrastructure. This interaction protocol is
designed using specific tool called ISLA!DER editor which is
one of the Electronic Institution Integrated Development
Environment (EIDE) components. The idea of designing this
interaction protocol is believed can eliminate the tendency of
students from missing out the latest updates available in their
e-learning. Furthermore, with the adoption of agent-based
environment for e-learning will add a new feature to the
existing e-learning in a way of assisting a busy lifestyle of
students to hand over the task of downloading lecture
materials and checking the latest announcements available in
the e-learning to the software agent straight to their desktop.
Hence, the students will not miss any important
announcements or latest learning materials uploaded by their
lecturers. In this paper, we are only focusing and describing
the process of specifying interaction protocol using
ISLANDER editor.