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Design and Implementation of an educational simulator for disk scheduling algorithms

디스크 스케줄링 알고리즘을 위한 교육용 시뮬레이터의 설계 및 구현

  • 고정국 (동명대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Received : 2011.08.18
  • Accepted : 2011.10.18
  • Published : 2011.12.31
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Abstract

Operating Systems is a discipline which handles complex and abstract concepts related to its components and the principles of how an operating system works. However, most of the OS courses have been textbook-oriented theoretical classes. For students who are familiar with various kinds of media, theoretical classes lead to a decline in the understanding of a lecture and difficulty concentrating. They have tried to make use of educational tools to help students understand a lecture and arouse their interests consistently. This paper describes the design and implementation of a disk scheduling simulator which shows the service processes of disk I/O requests visually. The disk scheduling simulator can be used for demonstrations of the disk scheduling algorithms. The results of the academic achievement evaluation and survey showed that a disk scheduling simulator is useful as an educational tool which causes the interests about operating systems and enhances the understanding of a lecture.

운영체제 교과목에서는 운영체제의 구성 요소와 동작 원리에 관련된 복잡하고 추상적인 개념들을 많이 다루고 있으나, 운영체제에 대한 교육은 주로 교재 위주의 이론 수업으로 진행되어 왔다. 다양한 형태의 매체에 익숙한 학생들에게 이론 위주의 수업은 강의 내용에 대한 이해도와 집중력 저하를 유발하므로 강의 내용에 대한 이해를 돕고 흥미를 유발하기 위한 교육용 도구의 활용을 지속적으로 시도하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 디스크 스케줄링 알고리즘들의 입출력 요청 처리 과정을 시각적으로 보여주는 교육용 도구인 디스크 스케줄링 시뮬레이터를 설계하고 구현하였다. 구현된 시뮬레이터를 운영체제 수업에 활용한 후 수강생들의 학업 성취도를 측정하고 설문조사를 통해 디스크 스케줄링 시뮬레이터가 운영체제 교과목에 대한 흥미를 유발하고 강의 내용에 대한 이해도를 향상시키는 교육용 도구로 유용함을 보였다.

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