Using Agent Solutions and Visualization Techniques to Manage Cloud-based Education System

Over the past few years, there are many requests from academic institutions, eLearning developers, education businesses owners, and global enterprises concerning cloud-based education systems. Nowadays, a range of software and applications have been created for managing teaching and learning resources via internet. Many of them have been even trying to integrate all the educational resources into a single cloud system. This paper proposes using agent technologies and visualization solutions as a tool to manage cloud-based education systems to match streamline of day to day business and operations. It focuses on adopting agents for University of Westminster's Cloud computing education system and mobile learning project. It aims to reduce complexity in the management of cloud computing stacks, service allocation and provision, data storage and system maintenance e.g. the exploration of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)level control, Platform as Service(PaaS) level deployment, Software as Service(SaaS) level apps adoption, as well as improving security for Cloud system protection. The paper also shows that using integrated agents and visualization can increase the effectiveness for Cloud-base education services provision and potentially improve business efficiency by providing flexible services management, operation and organization. It also greatly simplifies the system configuration and organization of services and the endowment of social and communication capability.