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1、HIERARCHICALVISUALIZATIONINASIMULATION-BASEDEDUCATIONALMULTIMEDIAWEBSYSTEM1,2JuandeLara1SchoolofComputerScience,McGillUniversity,3480UniversityStreet,Montreal,CanadaEmail:Juan.Lara@ii.uam.es2ManuelAlfonseca2ETSInformática,UniversidadAutónomadeMadrid,Ctra.DeColmenar,km.15,28049Madrid
2、,SpainEmail:Manuel.Alfonseca@ii.uam.esKeywords:Web-basedsimulation,distancelearning,courseware,electronics,OOCSMP.Abstract:Thispaperpresentsasystemthatgenerateswebdocuments(courses,presentationsorarticles)enrichedwithinteractivesimulationsandotherhypermediaelements.Simulationsaredes
3、cribedusinganobjectorientedcontinuoussimulationlanguagecalledOOCSMP.Thislanguageiscomplementedbytwohigherlanguagelayers(SODA-1LandSODA-2L).SODA-1Ldescribespagesorslides,whileSODA-2Lbuildscourses,articlesorpresentations.Acompiler(C-OOL)hasbeenprogrammedtogenerateJavaappletsforthesimu
4、lationmodelsandHTMLpagesforthedocumentpages.ThepaperfocusonsomenewcapabilitiesaddedtoOOCSMPtohandledifferentgraphicdetaillevelsofthesystembeingsimulated.Differentviewsareshownascascadewindows,whosemultimediaelementscanbearrangedandsynchronizedwiththesimulationexecution.Thenewcapabil
5、itieshavebeentestedbyextendingapreviouslydevelopedcourseonelectronics.provided,andgivesthestudentabettercomprehensionoftheproblem:explanationsbymeansofvideo,images,texts,etc.arenotstatically1.INTRODUCTIONincludedinanHTMLpage,butaredynamicallysynchronizedwiththesimulationexecution.Di
6、stancelearningisevermorepopularasaresultUsingtheInternetfordistanceeducation,onehasoftheincreasinguseofcomputersandtheInternet.theadvantagethatitofferscommoncommunicationThegrowingdemandiscreatinganeedofbetterprotocolsandstandards.Itisalsopossibletoinstalltoolsandtechniquestobuilded
7、ucationalmaterialsextensionsinwebbrowsers,thatpermitaricherthatcantakeadvantageofallthepossibilitiesinteractionwiththeHTMLpages.TheseextensionsofferedbytheWeb(Schutte1997).arecalledplug-ins.WeusetheJavaVirtualMachineHighereducationismovingfromateacher-(Java,2002)andVRMLbrowsers(VRML
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