Using taxonomic indexing trees to efficiently retrieve SCORM-compliant documents in e-Learning grids

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 206-226

  Shih, Wen Chung ^a   Tseng, Shian Shyong ^a,b   Yang, Chao Tung ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

e Learning; Globus toolkit; Grid computing; Information retrieval; SCORM

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149117811     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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