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Objectives:
- Cooperative Learning Environments (C.L.): define the essential characteristics an application for a university level cooperative learning has to incorporate to support cooperative learning activities.
- Middleware: define the components of an infrastructure for distributed computation, based on the peer-to-peer and grid models, providing resource access services, security, organisation and coordination of computational processes, to enable a group of people participate on a cooperative learning activity.
- Planning, optimization and resource allocation in a distributed system with autonomous and decentralized components, based on middleware, using algorithms based on economic systems, neural networks and neuro-fuzzy systems.
Methodology:
- Analysis of theories and existing systems, simulation of middleware, construction of CL environment prototypes, and evaluation with real users.
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