Solving the problem of integrating a client-server architecture with a multi-agent system in the educational domain

This paper presents the subsystem developed under the EUME project to integrate the EUME environment, an Intelligent Learning Management System aimed to support classroom activities, with the BSCW, a \'shared workspace\' system which enables collaboration over the Web. This subsystem allows the EUME multi-agent system to send information to, and get feedback from, the BSCW client-server system by means of a XML-RPC based communication. The motivation behind this integration stems from the need to improve the learning process initiated in the classroom with an infrastructure supporting follow-on activities based on cooperative work between remote students.