The iLab shared architecture: A web services infrastructure to build communities of internet accessible laboratories

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 931-950

  Harward, V Judson ^a   Del Alamo, Jesus A ^b   Lerman, Steven R ^a   Bailey, Philip H ^a   Carpenter, Joel ^c   DeLong, Kimberley ^a   Felknor, Chris ^a   Hardison, James ^a   Harrison, Bryant ^a   Jabbour, Imad ^d   Long, Phillip D ^a   Mao, Tingting ^e   Naamani, Loai ^e   Northridge, Jedidiah ^f   Schulz, Mark ^c   Talavera, Daniel ^g   Varadharajan, C Daniel ^a   Wang, Shaomin ^d   Yehia, Karim ^h   Zbib, Rabih ⁱ   Zych, David ^j   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^f ClearPoint Metrics   (United States)

^g Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program   (United States)

^h DEUTSCHE BANK AG   (Germany)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Educational technology; Engineering education; Internet; Laboratories

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTERNET; LABORATORIES; MIDDLEWARE; STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; EFFICIENT MANAGEMENTS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLEWARE SERVICES; ONLINE LABORATORY; ONLINE LABS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 60549106226     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.921607     Document Type: Article

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