• Nikhil's Report, Scott's Report

• Distribute J++ CD-ROM: I will give you instructions on how to use J++ 1.1 with JDK 1.1.2.
• PCs at home?
• Unix Account

The URL is (for now): http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos

• We will post meeting minutes here. There will be bulletin board for posting announcements. Right now, the bulletin board is not interactive. Someone needs to write a Bulletin Board system in Java.
• Reports done by the former students are in the Reports & Publications area.

The students who have not had substantial Java experience will be required to do a "Learn Java" Project (Albert, An, Calvin). The two projects I have in mind are:

• Bulletin Board System: Authenticate the user; post with date & time, subject, and content.
• Email System: Store archived email on the server. Users should be able to login, retrieve mail (using POP3), send mail (using SMTP), and browse his mail archives from any browser.

You are required to use the AgentOS framework to implement these programs. Any questions you may have on specific components, and any bug reports, etc. should be directed to both the author of the module and me (larryc@ics.uci.edu), except for the Event Pool, which will be managed by myself since Ken Tang is no longer around.

Kernel

Event

Agent Execution Model

• Directory Service: Nikhil
• Agent Execution Model: Scott
• Event Architecture: Available
• Transport: Available
• Security: Available
• Routing: Available
• Backtracking and Fault-tolerance: Available
• Sample Agent Implementations
• Search Agent
• Task & Automation Agent
• Replication Management Agent

The following constitute some of the "Hot" topics that may yield good research publications in the near future.

• Fault tolerance in agent systems
• Security in agent systems
• Supporting multi-user collaboration
• Ad-hoc wireless routing using agent systems (active networks)

We will continually learn about other agent systems by having a student present one agent system each week.

• Mole
• Tacoma
• MuBot (Crystaliz)
• Aglets (IBM)
• ARA
• CyberAgent (FTP Software)
• Telescript

Calvin has chosen the ubiquitous email system as his project to learn Java.

An has chosen the bulletin board system (to be used on the project's Web site) as his project to learn Java. An has not had client/server programming experience, and will likely team up with Albert on this project.

Albert was not present at the meeting.

Ranjit suggested version control as another possible area of focus. Ranjit wants to meet his goal of getting a paper submitted by November 97. I suggested ad-hoc routing using agent systems as a fruitful topic. Prior to implementing ad-hoc routing algorithms, however, agent transport and routing must be completed in AgentOS. Ranjit will meet with Larry tomorrow 4pm to discuss how to begin working on transport and routing in AgentOS.

• Give An sample code for a simple bulletin board system.
• Setup agentos account: password and JDK1.1.2
• Meet with Ranjit Fri 4pm to discuss implementation of agent transport and routing.