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A Methodology for Retrieving SCORM-Compliant Teaching Materials on Grid Environments

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Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities (ICADL 2006)

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This paper proposes a methodology for acquiring the top k highest-ranking SCORM-compliant teaching materials on grid environments, for a given query. Especially, the ranking criterion combines the relevance of the document and the efficiency of transmission. This methodology consists of three steps. First, the ranking function of each Learning Object Repository (LOR) is evaluated. Next, the number of documents to be retrieved from each LOR is decided according to the Ranking Ratio. Finally, the k documents are retrieved from the grid. To verify this approach, a prototype of the retrieval system was built on a grid testbed. Experimental results showed that the proposed approach can retrieve satisfactory teaching materials for users.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Wen-Chung Shih & Shian-Shyong Tseng

  2. High Performance Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung, 40704, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Chao-Tung Yang

  3. Department of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Shian-Shyong Tseng

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 1-2, Ibaraki, Japan

    Shigeo Sugimoto

  2. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Jane Hunter

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  4. Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, 305-8550, Ibaraki, Japan

    Atsuyuki Morishima

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Shih, WC., Yang, CT., Tseng, SS. (2006). A Methodology for Retrieving SCORM-Compliant Teaching Materials on Grid Environments. In: Sugimoto, S., Hunter, J., Rauber, A., Morishima, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities. ICADL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11931584_57

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