TY - GEN
T1 - A Web services approach for sharing remote laboratory resources
AU - Li, Yaoye
AU - Esche, Sven K.
AU - Chassapis, Constantin
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Because of their promise of significant benefits to all stakeholders in the laboratory education process, an increasing number of shared remotely accessible student laboratory resources are being developed by many educational institutions around the world. These resources include both remote laboratories, which are based on actual experimental devices as well as virtual laboratories, which represent software simulations of experiments. Web services are becoming more and more popular as an efficient technology for sharing distributed applications and structured information. In this article, we will propose a Web services based approach for the development and implementation of a scalable platform for providing a large variety of educational laboratory experiences to widely dispersed student audiences. We will present the general methodology for locating and utilizing distributed remote laboratory resources based on this Web services oriented system architecture. In particular, we will describe the overall system architecture, the design of the communication between the various system components and system users, the approach taken in managing the dynamic set of distributed resources in an efficient manner, the software architecture employed in searching for specific laboratory resources with certain functionalities as well as some challenges arising in the design and implementation of such a system.
AB - Because of their promise of significant benefits to all stakeholders in the laboratory education process, an increasing number of shared remotely accessible student laboratory resources are being developed by many educational institutions around the world. These resources include both remote laboratories, which are based on actual experimental devices as well as virtual laboratories, which represent software simulations of experiments. Web services are becoming more and more popular as an efficient technology for sharing distributed applications and structured information. In this article, we will propose a Web services based approach for the development and implementation of a scalable platform for providing a large variety of educational laboratory experiences to widely dispersed student audiences. We will present the general methodology for locating and utilizing distributed remote laboratory resources based on this Web services oriented system architecture. In particular, we will describe the overall system architecture, the design of the communication between the various system components and system users, the approach taken in managing the dynamic set of distributed resources in an efficient manner, the software architecture employed in searching for specific laboratory resources with certain functionalities as well as some challenges arising in the design and implementation of such a system.
KW - Remote laboratory
KW - Resource manager
KW - Search
KW - Virtual laboratory
KW - Web services
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2006-13725
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2006-13725
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84920632889
SN - 0791837904
SN - 9780791837900
T3 - Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2006 - Mechanical Engineering Education
BT - Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2006 - Mechanical Engineering Education
T2 - 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2006
Y2 - 5 November 2006 through 10 November 2006
ER -