Distributed computational steering environment for e-learning applications

Abstract EN

Computational Steering is the interactive adjustment and monitoring of the parameters that control the execution of numerical simulation applications.

Through it, the user can ask what-if questions, and tries different paths of the simulation without stopping it.

The interactivity of computational steering makes it suitable to be used in electronic learning.

Here we developed a framework for integrating existing applications codes into a computational steering system.

We implemented the framework on an environment for electronic learning that uses computational steering technique.

The developed system can be used be course developers and students.

The environment components are distributive and support multi-user, parallelism and backtracking to a known check-point which enables a rollback to a previous simulation state.

Keywords: Computational Steering, E-learning, Interactive Simulation, Visualization, Backtracking