Communication model for intelligent distance education agent

Traditional research in distance education using agent technology is focused on system description, but lack of precise and detailed design specification. So they cannot satisfy the requirements for realizing a practical system. This paper designs student and teacher agent's architecture, which is based on the agent's ability of communication, In order to construct a general interaction mechanism among teacher agent and student agents, a communication model is proposed, in which the communication language used by agents is defined. Design of the communication model and the language has been attempted in such a way so as to provide general support for a wide variety of education circumstances, and therefore to be particularly suitable for the development of distance education system.