• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.43-51
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• 2007

We have developed a peer agent to support programming learning and analyzed its educational effects in a programming course. The agent acts as a tutor or a tutee. The role of a tutor/tutee is like the role of a navigator/driver in pair programming. While students are learning with the peer agent, the students' programming abilities are modeled. Based on the student's model, the peer agent provides appropriate feedbacks and contents to the learner. The peer agent gives positive effects on learners' achievement and self-efficacy in a programming course. It means that the peer agent system helps the learner in an affective domain as well as a cognitive domain.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.945-953
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• 2006

The researchers in the field of cognitive science and learning science suggest that the teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning. Actually, lots of research findings have shown the beneficial effect of learning by teaching such as peer tutoring. But peer tutoring has some limitations in the practical learning context. To overcome some limitations, the new concept of "learning by teaching" through the agent called Teachable Agent. The teachable agent is a modified version of traditional intelligent tutoring system that assigns a role of tutor to teach the agent. The teachable agent monitors individual difference and provides a student with a chance for deep learning and motivation to learn by allowing them to play an active role in the process of learning. That is, The teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning. This study compared the effects of our teachable agent, KORI, and peer tutoring on the cognition and motivation. The field experiment was conducted to examine whether learning by teaching the teachable agent would be more effective than peer tutoring and reading condition. In the experiment, all participants took 30 minutes lesson on rock and rock cycle together to acquire the base knowledge in the domain. After the lesson, participants were randomly assigned to one of the three experimental conditions; reading condition, peer tutoring condition, and teachable agent condition. Next, participants of each condition moved into separated place and performed their own learning activity. After finishing all of the learning activities in each condition, all participants were instructed to rate the interestingness using a 5-point scale on their own learning activity and leaning material, and were given the comprehension test. The results indicated that the teachable agent condition and the peer tutoring condition showed more interests in the learning than the reading condition. It is suggested that teachable agent has more advantages in overcoming the several practical limitations of peer tutoring such as restrictions in time and place, tutor's cognitive burden, unnecessary interaction during peer tutoring. The applicability and prospects of the teachable agent as an efficient substitute for peer tutoring and traditional intelligent tutoring system were also discussed.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1-11
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• 2009

There are several studies in order to learn about programming language. This paper develops a peer agent system based on teaching and learning strategies in order to improve problem-solving ability. Problem-solving ability involves three components - content understanding, domain-dependent problem-solving strategies, and self-regulation. This paper shows the teaching and learning strategies about components of problem-solving for learning to program and the peer agent system uses the teaching and learning strategies. This study intents to analyze the educational effects of the peer agent system. The results show that the system has superior effects on problem-solving ability compared to traditional programming courses or pair programming courses. It means that the peer agent system is the effective educational system in improving student's problem-solving ability.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.290-298
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• 2015

This paper suggests a multi-agent message transport architecture based on the message-oriented middleware ZeroMQ. Compared with the other middlewares such as CORBA, Ice, and Thrift, ZeroMQ receives a good score in the evaluation of performance, QoS (Quality of Service), patterns, user friendliness, and resources. The suggested message transfer architecture borrowed many basic concepts like agent platform, AMS (Agent Management System), and MTS (Message Transfer System) from FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) standard multi-agent specifications, and the architecture inherited the strength of the architecture from the multi-agent framework SMAF (Smart Multi-Agent Framework). The architecture suggested in this paper is a novel peer-to-peer architecture which is not known to the ZeroMQ community. In the suggested architecture, every MTS agent uses only one ZeroMQ router socket to support peer-to-peer communication among MTS agents. The suggested architecture can support closely collaborating software areas such as intelligent robots as well as the traditional application areas of multi-agent architecture. The suggested architecture has interoperability and scalability with the ZeroMQ devices and patterns.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04d
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• pp.364-366
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• 2003

본 논문은 Peer-to-Peer 방식의 어플리케이션 레벨 파일 저장 시스템에서 피어(Peer) 노드의 성능을 고려하는 효율적인 파일 전송 방법을 소개한다. 무선 접속 기기의 보급으로 인해 P2P 네트워크를 구성하는 피어 노드가 무선망을 통해 접속될 가능성이 높아졌다. 기존의 P2P 네트워크에서 멀티미디어 파일 지원 방식은 피어 노드의 성능을 고려하지 않아 피어 노드와 네트워크의 리소스 낭비가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 에이전트 기법을 이용하여 노드의 성능을 고려하여 멀티미디어 데이터를 지원하는 방법을 소개한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.707-741
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• 2005

In the multimedia streaming technology, the unicast method require additional cost by an increase traffic according to increase a number of users. The multicast method can solve this problem, but it don't have connection and control information of clients. Now, the most routers support only unicast. Also it has a problem with an exchange of service in other ISP. This paper proposes traffic agent system which is applied unicast and P2P(Peer to Peer) for distance video teaming to overcome this problem. The proposed system decrease the traffic of stream server by control agent, and cut down expenses of network. This system is tested under the distance video leaning using JMF and application software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2004

유무선 인터넷 기술의 발전은 인터넷을 통한 개인 정보의 효율적인 공유 및 교환을 가능하게 하였다. 최근 이러한 분산 정보의 공유를 위한 네트워킹 기술로 P2P(Peer-to-Peer)가 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 현재 국내외의 많은 대학 및 기관에서 P2P에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행 중 이다. 하지만, 대부분의 P2P 시스템들은 파일공유 위주의 서비스를 제공하며 SETI@HOME을 필두로 한 일부 @HOME 프로젝트들만이 자원 공유 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 그러나 기존의 자원공유 P2P 서비스들은 특정한 목적을 위해 구성됨으로써 자원을 제공하는 일반 사용자는 단순히 자원을 제공할 뿐 그 이상의 역할을 수행할 수가 없다. 이에 본 논문에서는 P2P 시스템에 참여한 모든 사용자가 P2P의 자원 네트워크를 사용할 수 있도록 멀티 에이전트 기반의 자원 공유 P2P 시스템을 제안한다. 일반 사용자는 서비스 생성 프레임워크를 사용하여 자신에게 필요한 테스크 에이전트를 생성할 수 있으며, 스케줄러 및 분배 에이전트, 테스크 에이전트에 의해 수행되어진다. 또한 본 시스템은 group 및 peer의 관리를 위해 특성 학습 에이전트(Specific Learning Agent)의 학습기능을 사용함으로써 P2P가 가지는 불안전한 환경 및 신뢰성 문제를 해결하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-134
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• 2005

This paper describes the efficient peer-to-peer migration method of Grid service agent on the mobile agent based P-Grid. The migration mechanism for transmitting service agent upon the service request is based on the peer's logic network topology. The network topologies that this system uses are organized as star topology, ring topology and tree topology, and agents are migrated by the master/slave method and serial/parallel method. The migration method of services is chosen based on the execution range and characteristic of the requested service. Also, the entire execution time of service is affected by the performance of peer that is a part of network topology, and the migration order, Therefore, the system monitors the performance of peers, and determines the migration priority based on analyzing and learning history. The system can reduce service execution time efficiently with decisions of migration method for service agent and priority of peers.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2001

For reducing network traffic between long distance network or WAN, we supplement the Peer-to-Peer technology to HTTP. The large file transmition have the biggest traffic on HTTP. If downloading a large size file from a near computer not from the original location, we will get it speedier. For this, we propose a extened HTTP, named HTTP3. In this paper, we describe the HTTP3, the HTTP3 agent to support this protocol., and its security.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.463-465
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• 2002

최근 인터넷의 급속한 성장과 초고속 통신망의 구축으로 인하여 다양한 멀티미디어서비스들이 제공되고 있다. 그러나 현재 대부분의 멀티미디어 서비스들은 클라이언트／서버모델을 기반으로 구축되어 있기 때문에, 중앙 서버로의 과도한 부하가 집중되는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 순수 P2P(Pure Peer-to-Peer) 환경으로 구축된 멀티미디어 서비스에서의 자원 검색 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 자율성과 이동성을 지닌 이동 에이전트(mobile agent)를 기반으로 자원의 검색을 수행하여, 기존의 순수 P2P 환경에서의 검색 기법의 문제점을 해결한다. 또한, 시나리오를 통하여 제안 기법의 구체적인 동작 과정에 대해 알아본다.