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In order to provide diverse users an integrated, scalable and easy-to-use interface to manage and exploit the dynamically growing learning resources on the Web, this paper proposes a semantic resource management framework to support the effective organizing and accessing of learning re-sources in an open environment. By exploiting the semantic relationships that characterize learning resources and user profile, the framework supports both semantic querying and conceptual navigation of learning resources pertaining to specific topics. A system has been developed and deployed within an academic setting to improve the resource management and exploitation for cooperative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Soft-device is a promising infrastructure of next-generation distributed system. Soft-devices are configurable and adaptive software virtual mechanism, providing services to each other and to other virtual roles according to the content of the resources and related configuration information. In order to aggregate and reuse the existing soft-devices for more complex applications, this paper proposes a dynamic inheritance mechanism of soft-devices. By taking into account the novel characteristics of soft-devices, this approach provides flexible and effective inheritance modes, which overcomes the limitation of traditional local inheritance. It will play an important role in future interconnection environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]