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[Aglets-developer] I want you - request for tasks and their assignement

[Luca F. <cat...@ti...>]

Dear friends,
it's time to restart the development behind aglets. So far, I  uploaded on the 
cvs a new version with the migration to the swing look and feel, I completed 
the internalization of the interface and added a package for GUI utilities. 
The work is not completed yet, and so I need someone who can try and complete 
it with details. Moreover, I'd like to improve the aglet classloader, 
migrating it to an url classloader, and I'd like to make a restyle of the 
security-prone code (e.g., policyreader). For example, it will be important 
to remove the special keyword "ownedBy" and substitute it with the principal 
structure of the standard java 2 platform.
Actually I'm translating a power point presentation of aglets and agent 
technology, that I hope to made available on the web site the next week. 
Finished that, I hope to handle the classloader changes, and I'd like someone 
to take care of the other changes. Of course, if someone has a feature to 
request or to implement, we can discuss here.

I hope to see you soon,
happy easter.

Luca
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Re: [Aglets-developer] serverapp accesscontrolexception

[Luca F. <cat...@ti...>]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:47 zi bin cheah's cat walking on the keyboard  
wrote:

> I've been trying for more than a month to create my own aglet server, but i
> m still scratching my head..I keep getting the error below. I've been
> trying very hard to edit .aglets.policy and .java.policy but nothing seems
> to be wroking. I even tried granting all permission but its still not
> working
>
> Someone out there that have this knowledge, your help is much appreciated
> and needed :)
>
> java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
> (com.ibm.aglets.security.ContextPermission listener add)
>


I'm not sure of, but the error is an access error. Check your 
$HOME/.agets/security/aglets.policy file, and see if it contains the 
ContextPermission for the server class you are executing, that means for the 
codebase of such as class. 
Hope this helps.

Luca


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[Aglets-developer] serverapp accesscontrolexception

[zi b. c. <zib...@ya...>]

I've been trying for more than a month to create my own aglet server, but i m still scratching my head..I keep getting the error below. I've been trying very hard to edit .aglets.policy and .java.policy but nothing seems to be wroking. I even tried granting all permission but its still not working
 
Someone out there that have this knowledge, your help is much appreciated and needed :)
 
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (com.ibm.aglets.security.ContextPermission listener add)


		
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[Aglets-developer] Re: Vol 1 #278 - 1 msg, you must set JAVA_HOME variable etc

[<tom...@gm...>]

Hi!

I have had the same problem, and I think it got something to do with
the variable settings. Have you set the correct path settings for
JAVA_HOME variable, AGLET_HOME variable etc?

When I did that, it worked!

You should read the manual that you can download at sourceforge.net.
Everything is explained there.

Regards!

Tom


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[Aglets-developer] Run Aglets

[Ghada M. <gha...@ya...>]

Hi all,
 
I run Aglets2.0.2 ,i wrote some commands in command prompt and then it works.
my question is can i run this package in JBuilder instead of  using jdk1.x and command prompt.
 
Thanks

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[Aglets-developer] problem in Installing Aglet Software Development Kit:

[sumanth s. <smi...@re...>]

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.I am willing to do a project using Aglets ( mobile agents). I have downloa=
ded Aglets version 2.0.2  After unzipping and running "ant"  command it is =
not generating .key.java file. It says built failure.I have tried downloadi=
ng the aglets twice,but the same error has occured.Kindly help.=0A=0A=0ARep=
ly to:=0A=0A1  vik...@ya...=0A2  smi...@ya...=20

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Re: [Aglets-developer] problem in runnig Aglet

[Luca F. <cat...@ti...>]

On Monday 28 February 2005 20:15 Ghada Moustafa's cat walking on the keyboard  
wrote:

> [Creating com.ibm.aglets.tahiti.Tahiti]
> [/c:/.aglets/security/trusted is not found. Creating new file.]
> [/c:/.aglets/security/untrusted is not found. Creating new file.]
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at
> com.ibm.atp.agentsystem.aglets.KeyEnumerator.hasMoreElements(SimplePe
> rsistence.java:89)
>         at com.ibm.aglets.AgletTimer.recoverTimer(AgletTimer.java:153)
>         at com.ibm.aglets.AgletContextImpl.start(AgletContextImpl.java:291)
>         at com.ibm.aglets.tahiti.Main.main(Main.java:122)
>

Did you run "ant install-home"?

Luca

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[Aglets-developer] Deadline Extended: IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

[IEEE A. Security/S. <iee...@ww...>]

	   Deadline Extended---Final Call for Papers

SUBMISSIONS NOW DUE: MARCH 10.

The Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

Call For Papers

IEEE MAS&S 2005

Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 30-31, 2005
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005

Co-located with OpenCougaar 2005
August 29, 2005
http://www.cougaar.org/opencougaar05/

Building on the success of the first symposium in 2004, the Second IEEE 
Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MAS&S) is scheduled again 
for Philadelphia on August 30-31, 2005 with the third symposium slated for 
2006 in Washington, DC.  The First Symposium consisted of 14 technical papers, 
two keynote talks (V.S. Subrahmanian and Joseph Halpern) and a panel session.  
These papers covered topics ranging from attacking agent-based systems, 
inter-agent trust, control-theoretic techniques for managing agent populations 
and agent anonymity.


Agents are enabling data interoperability, migration of legacy systems, 
real-time decision making, control of autonomous and robotic systems, and 
intelligent data processing in applications for financial, telecommunications, 
homeland security, and defense domains. MAS&S focuses on the techniques 
required to support security and survivability of multi-agent systems, as well 
as the use of multi-agent systems to support security and survivability of 
other systems.  Papers are solicited on the following topics:

Protecting agents and agent infrastructure from attack;
Stability, control and scalability of multi-agent systems;
Information assurance for/in agent-based systems;
Trusted agents, reputation mechanisms, secure agent communication;
Multi-level and cross domain security for agents;
Design of robust, error tolerant agents and agent applications;
Tradeoffs between security, survivability and performance of MAS;
Mobile agent safety;
Software engineering environments for secure agents;
Modeling, simulation and validation of agent societies;
Survivable agent infrastructures, physical security for agents; and
Applications, testbeds and fielded systems.

MAS&S welcomes submissions describing theory, implementation, work in 
progress, innovative ideas, field studies, experimental results in real 
environments as well as discussions of completed projects.  All submissions 
will be peer reviewed and exceptional papers will be accepted for presentation 
at the Symposium.  Acceptance rate for the 2004 Symposium was competitive, at 
less than 30%.

All papers must be 10 pages or less in IEEE two-column conference format. 
Details and templates for MS Word and LaTeX are posted at 
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005. A submission to MAS&S 2005 implies that no 
strongly similar paper is accepted or submitted to any other conference or 
journal prior to the notification of acceptance date for MAS&S 2005. At least 
one author of each accepted paper must present the paper at the conference.  
All papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Relevant Dates
The tentative dates related to this event are:
1 March 2005: Paper submissions due
18 April 2005: Author notifications sent
16 May 2005: Camera ready copy due
29 August 2005: OpenCougaar 2005
30-31 August 2005: MAS&S 2005


Conference Organizers

General Chairs:
Suzanne Barber (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)

Program Chairs:
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)
Bill Regli (Drexel University)

Conference Steering Committee:
George Cybenko (Dartmouth)
Mark Greaves (DARPA)
Anil Nerode (Cornell University)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)

Program Committee:
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Jeffrey Bloom (Sarnoff Corporation)
Jeffrey Bradshaw (IHMC)
Marshall Brinn (BBN Technologies)
Fred Chang (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Vince Cicirello (Drexel University)
Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Grit Denker (SRI)
Thomas Eiter (Technical Univ of Vienna)
Tim Finin (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool)
Yolanda Gil (Univ of Southern California)
Robert Gray (BAE Systems)
Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University)
Soundar Kumara (Penn State University)
Martin Hofmann (Lockheed Martin)
Victor Lesser (Univ of Massachusetts)
Rebecca Montanari (Univ of Bologna)
Marian Nodine (Telcordia)
Sue Rho (Cougaar Software)
Volker Roth (OGM Laboratory)
Kent Seamons (Brigham Young Univ)
Victoria Stavridou-Coleman (Intel)
Niranjan Suri (IHMC)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon Univ)
Giovanni Vigna (Univ of Calif, Santa Barbara)
Jan Vitek (Purdue University)

[Aglets-developer] problem in runnig Aglet

[Ghada M. <gha...@ya...>]

Hi all,
 
I tried to run (Tahiti) in Aglets1.0.3 package on windowsXP(NT),i set 6 Environment Variables and wrote agletsd in prompt(i run this under jdk1.4),the register window appeared and i wrote all fields in it and click on register button and this error appeared on prompt:
 
[Creating com.ibm.aglets.tahiti.Tahiti]
[/c:/.aglets/security/trusted is not found. Creating new file.]
[/c:/.aglets/security/untrusted is not found. Creating new file.]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.ibm.atp.agentsystem.aglets.KeyEnumerator.hasMoreElements(SimplePe
rsistence.java:89)
        at com.ibm.aglets.AgletTimer.recoverTimer(AgletTimer.java:153)
        at com.ibm.aglets.AgletContextImpl.start(AgletContextImpl.java:291)
        at com.ibm.aglets.tahiti.Main.main(Main.java:122)

plz anyone can help me in this problem.
Thanks a lot


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[Aglets-developer] CFP: IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

[IEEE A. Security/S. <iee...@ww...>]

		   Final Call for Papers

SUBMISSIONS DUE: MARCH 1.

The Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

Call For Papers

IEEE MAS&S 2005

Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 30-31, 2005
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005

Co-located with OpenCougaar 2005
August 29, 2005
http://www.cougaar.org/opencougaar05/

Building on the success of the first symposium in 2004, the Second IEEE 
Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MAS&S) is scheduled again 
for Philadelphia on August 30-31, 2005 with the third symposium slated for 
2006 in Washington, DC.  The First Symposium consisted of 14 technical papers, 
two keynote talks (V.S. Subrahmanian and Joseph Halpern) and a panel session.  
These papers covered topics ranging from attacking agent-based systems, 
inter-agent trust, control-theoretic techniques for managing agent populations 
and agent anonymity.


Agents are enabling data interoperability, migration of legacy systems, 
real-time decision making, control of autonomous and robotic systems, and 
intelligent data processing in applications for financial, telecommunications, 
homeland security, and defense domains. MAS&S focuses on the techniques 
required to support security and survivability of multi-agent systems, as well 
as the use of multi-agent systems to support security and survivability of 
other systems.  Papers are solicited on the following topics:

Protecting agents and agent infrastructure from attack;
Stability, control and scalability of multi-agent systems;
Information assurance for/in agent-based systems;
Trusted agents, reputation mechanisms, secure agent communication;
Multi-level and cross domain security for agents;
Design of robust, error tolerant agents and agent applications;
Tradeoffs between security, survivability and performance of MAS;
Mobile agent safety;
Software engineering environments for secure agents;
Modeling, simulation and validation of agent societies;
Survivable agent infrastructures, physical security for agents; and
Applications, testbeds and fielded systems.

MAS&S welcomes submissions describing theory, implementation, work in 
progress, innovative ideas, field studies, experimental results in real 
environments as well as discussions of completed projects.  All submissions 
will be peer reviewed and exceptional papers will be accepted for presentation 
at the Symposium.  Acceptance rate for the 2004 Symposium was competitive, at 
less than 30%.

All papers must be 10 pages or less in IEEE two-column conference format. 
Details and templates for MS Word and LaTeX are posted at 
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005. A submission to MAS&S 2005 implies that no 
strongly similar paper is accepted or submitted to any other conference or 
journal prior to the notification of acceptance date for MAS&S 2005. At least 
one author of each accepted paper must present the paper at the conference.  
All papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Relevant Dates
The tentative dates related to this event are:
1 March 2005: Paper submissions due
18 April 2005: Author notifications sent
16 May 2005: Camera ready copy due
29 August 2005: OpenCougaar 2005
30-31 August 2005: MAS&S 2005


Conference Organizers

General Chairs:
Suzanne Barber (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)

Program Chairs:
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)
Bill Regli (Drexel University)

Conference Steering Committee:
George Cybenko (Dartmouth)
Mark Greaves (DARPA)
Anil Nerode (Cornell University)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)

Program Committee:
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Jeffrey Bloom (Sarnoff Corporation)
Jeffrey Bradshaw (IHMC)
Marshall Brinn (BBN Technologies)
Fred Chang (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Vince Cicirello (Drexel University)
Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Grit Denker (SRI)
Thomas Eiter (Technical Univ of Vienna)
Tim Finin (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool)
Yolanda Gil (Univ of Southern California)
Robert Gray (BAE Systems)
Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University)
Soundar Kumara (Penn State University)
Martin Hofmann (Lockheed Martin)
Victor Lesser (Univ of Massachusetts)
Rebecca Montanari (Univ of Bologna)
Marian Nodine (Telcordia)
Sue Rho (Cougaar Software)
Volker Roth (OGM Laboratory)
Kent Seamons (Brigham Young Univ)
Victoria Stavridou-Coleman (Intel)
Niranjan Suri (IHMC)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon Univ)
Giovanni Vigna (Univ of Calif, Santa Barbara)
Jan Vitek (Purdue University)

[Aglets-developer] Re: Aglets-developer digest, Vol 1 #271 - 2 msgs

[<tom...@gm...>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:21:37 +0100, Tom Egil S=F8rlie <tom...@gm...> =
wrote:
> >
> > I've tryed to set the permission in the algets.policy file in this way =
=3D
> > but it still doesn't work:
> >
> > grant codeBase "file://C:/Programmi/Aglets/-/" {
> >
> > protection com.ibm.aglet.security.AgletProtection =3D
> > "*","dispatch,dispose,deactivate,activate,clone,retract";
> >
> > protection com.ibm.aglet.security.MessageProtection "*", "*";
> >
> > permission java.security.AllPermission "*", "*";
> >
> > permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "setFactory";
> >
> > };
> >
> > What I have to do?
> >
> > Tanks
> >
> > Fabio Dago
> > via Perincioli 8
> > 13017 Quarona (VC)
>=20
> What I did with my aglets.policy file, was to erase everything and the
> write following:
>=20
> grant
> {
>         permission java.security.AllPermission "*", "*";
> };
>=20
> This is of course no kind of security at all, but it is useful to use
> this just to see that your aglet is working, running without any
> security exceptions. Then you can edit your file to the correct policy
> afterwards using for example java policytool.
>=20
> Tom Egil S=F8rlie
>

[Aglets-developer] Re: Aglets-developer digest, Vol 1 #271 - 2 msgs

[<tom...@gm...>]

>=20
> I've tryed to set the permission in the algets.policy file in this way =
=3D
> but it still doesn't work:
>=20
> grant codeBase "file://C:/Programmi/Aglets/-/" {
>=20
> protection com.ibm.aglet.security.AgletProtection =3D
> "*","dispatch,dispose,deactivate,activate,clone,retract";
>=20
> protection com.ibm.aglet.security.MessageProtection "*", "*";
>=20
> permission java.security.AllPermission "*", "*";
>=20
> permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "setFactory";
>=20
> };
>=20
> What I have to do?
>=20
> Tanks
>=20
> Fabio Dago
> via Perincioli 8
> 13017 Quarona (VC)

What I did with my aglets.policy file, was to erase everything and the
write following:

grant
{
=09permission java.security.AllPermission "*", "*";
};

This is of course no kind of security at all, but it is useful to use
this just to see that your aglet is working, running without any
security exceptions. Then you can edit your file to the correct policy
afterwards using for example java policytool.

Tom Egil S=F8rlie

[Aglets-developer] java.net.socketPermission

[Ludwig Z. <lud...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm new to Aglets and am trying to develep my first mobile agent. I am
making use of AdventNet SNMP API and am trying to poll a particular
MIB on localhost.

However I am receiving the following errors:

Warning: Unable to load the AdventNet SNMP API  properties file.
Request failed or timed out.
Error Sending PDU. IO error sending PDU. Send Error: access denied (java.net.Soc
ketPermission 127.0.0.1:161 connect,resolve)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Aglets-developer] Permission SOAP message

[Fabio D. <fab...@po...>]

I'm trying to send a SOAP message with an aglet, but there is an =
exception:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied =
(java.lang.RuntimePermission
 setFactory)
        at =
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlConte
xt.java:269)
        at =
java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:
401)
        at =
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:524)
        at =
com.ibm.aglets.tahiti.AgletsSecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown S
ource)
        at =
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkSetFactory(SecurityManager.java:1587)
        at =
java.net.HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(HttpURLConnection.java:
150)
        at =
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.post(HttpSOA
PConnection.java:220)
        at =
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection$PriviledgedP
ost.run(HttpSOAPConnection.java:151)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at =
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection.call(HttpSOA
PConnection.java:121)
        at listiniPkg.ListiniAgentImpl.query(ListiniAgentImpl.java:66)
        at =
listiniAglets.ListiniAgletsAgent.query(ListiniAgletsAgent.java:187)
        at =
listiniAglets.ListiniAgletsAgent.handleMessage(ListiniAgletsAgent.jav
a:158)
        at com.ibm.aglets.MessageImpl.handle(Unknown Source)
        at com.ibm.aglets.AgletThread.run(Unknown Source)
14-feb-2005 9.53.43 =
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnection pos
t
SEVERE: SAAJ0009: Message send failed
java.security.PrivilegedActionException: =
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptio
nImpl: Message send failed.......

.......

I've tryed to set the permission in the algets.policy file in this way =
but it still doesn't work:

grant codeBase "file://C:/Programmi/Aglets/-/" {


protection com.ibm.aglet.security.AgletProtection =
"*","dispatch,dispose,deactivate,activate,clone,retract";

protection com.ibm.aglet.security.MessageProtection "*", "*";

permission java.security.AllPermission "*", "*";

permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "setFactory";

};

What I have to do?

Tanks



Fabio Dago
via Perincioli 8
13017 Quarona (VC)

e-mail: fab...@po...

[Aglets-developer] User manual spellcheck patch

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Dear developers,

I ran the source of the manual through a spellchecker and accepted the 
replacements of which I was sure. While the language is more correct 
now, the manual should not yet be considered error-free.

I haven't just gone ahead and committed the changes myself into CVS 
because Luca is the manual's editor and he may have made changes 
himself, that are not yet committed. the spellchecking was an 
independent initiative of mine, I hadn't warned him about it.

Instead, I am attaching to this e-mail a patch file for applying the 
corrections to the manual (the revision from CVS). It is enough to 
save the attachment to the working directory of the 'docs' module 
(probably called 'docs/' on your system), change to that directory 
and run:
	patch < manual.patch

For reviewing the patch it might be difficult to just read the patch 
file. Many of the source lines are very long, so it's not 
straightforward to spot the difference in the line. I discovered that 
kdiff3 does a great job by highlighting the differences *inside the 
lines*, too. To use it, keep a copy of 'manual.tex' before patching, 
call it 'manual.tex.orig', then patch 'manual.tex' as shown above, 
then run:
	kdiff3 manual.tex manual.tex.orig

Before committing to a position about keeping 'manual.ps' and 
'manual.pdf' in the repository, I want to read "Open Source 
Development with CVS" next week, while I am on holiday. Then I will 
be even more capable of justifying any decision.

Thomas.
P.S.: In a previous e-mail I had misspelled the mailing list where 
commit messages and diffs are sent, the correct address is 
agl...@li...
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Re: [Aglets-developer] CVS commit error solved

[Luca F. <cat...@us...>]

On 18:25, gioved=EC 10 febbraio 2005 Thomas Herlea's cat walking on the key=
board =20
wrote:

> If the traffic turns out to be too heavy, don't unsubscribe, better
> let us know how to make it bearable again. The directories for which
> commits are reported can be tuned, the type of diff can also be
> chosen, plus we could hack syncmail itself to suit our needs, OK?

Well done,
thanks Thomas.

=2D-=20
Luca Ferrari
cat...@us...=20

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[Aglets-developer] CVS commit error solved

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 15:46, Thomas Herlea wrote:
> On an unrelated note, while checking in the updated modules file, I
> encountered following warning, but the operation succeeded:

OK, I tracked this down to a script used for notifying the 
aglet-commits list and the CVS 'helper' by e-mail of any commits.

This script is taken from another SourceForge project: cvs-syncmail. 
The error occurred because the revision of the script we were using 
(2 years, 9 months old) was not compatible any more with the version 
of the Python language used on the SourceForge CVS server.

I have tested the latest syncmail revision (5 weeks old), it passed 
the tests, so I have updated it for our project.

If you are subscribed to agl...@li... expect 
traffic proportional to the volume of activity. :-) For now, this 
will provide better visibility to the development work, something I 
feel was missing. Subscribers will know when they need to 'cvs 
update' their working directories.

If the traffic turns out to be too heavy, don't unsubscribe, better 
let us know how to make it bearable again. The directories for which 
commits are reported can be tuned, the type of diff can also be 
chosen, plus we could hack syncmail itself to suit our needs, OK?

Thomas.
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Re: [Aglets-developer] Manual source available in module 'docs'

[Luca F. <cat...@us...>]

On 16:19, gioved=EC 10 febbraio 2005 Thomas Herlea's cat walking on the key=
board =20
wrote:

> Thanks, Luca!
>
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:42, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > I'm sorry for my late replying, but a few minutes ago I uploaded
> > the documentation (even the source) in a module called "docs", thus
> > now all the documentation is available for changes.
>
> It has taken a while for module 'docs' to become available through
> ViewCVS, the web interface, although it was immediately available for
> CVS clients. Does it usually take a while until changes propagate to
> ViewCVS? It may be good to take this into account in order to tell
> web users to be patient when we announce to the world the
> availability of some new cool feature in Aglets.
>

Depending on the sourceforge policy, web is not immediately update, thus it=
=20
takes a while to see all the content available. Typically updates are=20
performed twice a day.

> Luca, I need to mention something about two of files in the module:
> 'manual.pdf' and 'manual.ps'. I think they don't belong into CVS, but
> into the File Release System, because it should be possible to
> regenerate them from 'manual.tex'. Keeping them in CVS is redundant,
> and a bit wasteful if you want to keep them up to date in parallel
> with the source. They could accidentally get out of sync and it's
> unlikely that anyone will ever submit a patch for them. Even if they
> do, how do you update the TeX file? I am just quoting a CVS rule of
> thumb here and SourceForge seem to recommend it, too:
> https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D768&group_id=3D1#a=
ppropr
>iateusage
>

You're right, and this emphasizes that we have a good "helper" for the CVS=
=20
(and more in general for the development). However, I thought it could be=20
better to keep the "stable" manual in the release, and all the "development=
"=20
version on the cvs, even a pdf/ps for those who don't have a latex system.=
=20
However, feel free to remove them if you judge they are redundant.


> Having said that, I tried 'latex manual.tex' and after many errors it
> has produced a 'manual.dvi' which seems to work. What do you use to
> process the TeX file?
>

Well, I use both pdflatex and latex, since I develop under linux these=20
programs come in bundle. Maybe we can write instructions for windows users=
=20
(if there's any).

Thanks for your advices,
Luca


=2D-=20
Luca Ferrari
cat...@us...=20

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[Aglets-developer] Manual source available in module 'docs'

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Thanks, Luca!

On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:42, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> I'm sorry for my late replying, but a few minutes ago I uploaded
> the documentation (even the source) in a module called "docs", thus
> now all the documentation is available for changes.

It has taken a while for module 'docs' to become available through 
ViewCVS, the web interface, although it was immediately available for 
CVS clients. Does it usually take a while until changes propagate to 
ViewCVS? It may be good to take this into account in order to tell 
web users to be patient when we announce to the world the 
availability of some new cool feature in Aglets.

Luca, I need to mention something about two of files in the module: 
'manual.pdf' and 'manual.ps'. I think they don't belong into CVS, but 
into the File Release System, because it should be possible to 
regenerate them from 'manual.tex'. Keeping them in CVS is redundant, 
and a bit wasteful if you want to keep them up to date in parallel 
with the source. They could accidentally get out of sync and it's 
unlikely that anyone will ever submit a patch for them. Even if they 
do, how do you update the TeX file? I am just quoting a CVS rule of 
thumb here and SourceForge seem to recommend it, too:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=768&group_id=1#appropriateusage

Of course, we can keep the PDF and the PostScript files in CVS, too if 
you consider that the advantage are worth it. Otherwise, I suggest 
you 'cvs remove -f' them and instead add a README file with 
instructions for generating them again.

Having said that, I tried 'latex manual.tex' and after many errors it 
has produced a 'manual.dvi' which seems to work. What do you use to 
process the TeX file?

Regards,
Thomas.
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[Aglets-developer] CVS modules explicited

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Dear developers,

Given that there were no objections to my proposal of 2004-12-19 about 
expliciting the CVS modules of the project, I have implemented this 
feature.

Up until now, when someone new wanted to get aglets from CVS, the 
SourceForge page gave them instructions on how to do it, but stopped 
short of providing the module names to be used. For finding out what 
module names there existed, one had to go to "Browse CVS Repository" 
and deduce module names from the top level directories of the 
project.

Now the module names can be queried by CVS clients, informing the 
users of their choices in terms of modules. This opens the 
possibility for our project to use more expert concepts, such as 
alias modules and ampersand modules besides regular modules, if the 
need arises. That doesn't seem to be the case in the near future.

It is also possible to move modules out of the spotlight by removing 
them from the explicit list if they are outdated or strictly 
administrative. Right now all modules are in there, but we could 
discuss whether to remove a few.

With command line cvs, you can list the explicited modules in the 
following way:
cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/aglets co -c
	or
cvs -d:ext:DEV...@cv...:/cvsroot/aglets co -c
They will print a list of modules on standard output. Each line shows 
the name of the module, followed by the directory corresponding to 
the module.

In order to use this feature with Cervisia you should have the aglets 
repository defined first. You can do that through menu option 
'Repository > Repositories...', then clicking on the 'Add...' button 
and supplying either 
':pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/aglets' or 
':ext:DEV...@cv...:/cvsroot/aglets' in the 
'Repository' field.

When you use the checkout dialog (menu option 'Repository > 
Checkout...'), choose the aglets repository from the drop-down list 
and then click on the 'Fetch List' button. You will be asked for your 
password if you're using the ':ext:' form of the repository. Once the 
operation completes, the drop down list corresponding to 'Module' 
will be populated with the project's explicit modules and you will be 
able to choose one for checkout.

On an unrelated note, while checking in the updated modules file, I 
encountered following warning, but the operation succeeded:

----------
Checking in modules;
/cvsroot/aglets/CVSROOT/modules,v  <--  modules
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
done
Mailing kbd...@us......
Generating notification message...
Generating notification message... done.
cvs commit: Rebuilding administrative file database
Mailing kbd...@us......
Generating notification message...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/cvsroot/aglets/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 322, in ?
    main()
  File "/cvsroot/aglets/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 315, in main
    blast_mail(subject, people, specs[1:], contextlines, fromhost)
  File "/cvsroot/aglets/CVSROOT/syncmail", line 221, in blast_mail
    conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/smtplib.py", line 276, in connect
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
----------

Has any of you encountered it before? It seems that the attempt to 
notify the former project owner of the checkin fails. I will 
investigate and hopefully remedy the problem.

Yours,
Thomas.
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[Aglets-developer] new developer acceptance speech :)

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Dear Luca and developers,

On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:42, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> I'll be glad if you will take care of our cvs, and I've added
> yourself in the team granting CVS access (welcome). Please tell if
> you don't want to do this job, as well as waht you'll do (or have
> done) on the cvs.

Thanks for including me among the developers of the Aglets project.

Since this is the first project hosted at SourceForge for which I am a 
developer, there are aspects of SourceForge which open up for me only 
now. I will study the documentation in order to be as effective as 
possible.

In general I will try to work as openly as possible, using this 
mailing list to share with you my ideas and receive feedback. For all 
but the smallest and most obvious actions I intend to leave a trace 
here, too. For the major decisions I will ask for feedback here 
before taking action, in order to avoid mistakes which could have 
been noticed by someone here.

I gladly accept the task of looking after our CVS system. I envisage 
it consisting, among others, of:
- providing advice about how we organize our repository
- publishing from time to time CVS tips and tricks 
- researching ways for take advantage better of the power of CVS

Although I have write access now to the repository, when I have 
bugfixes/improvements, I will publish patches here on the list, so 
they can be reviewed before eventual inclusion.

For helping the agleteers community, my ideas are not very concrete at 
the moment, but I will share them as they crystallize. I would like 
to see the entrance barrier lowered for newcomers, which probably 
involves more accessible documentation, more examples, maybe 
tutorials... In the area of quality control, I hope to see the bug 
tracking system at SourceForge used closer to its potential. Also, I 
will continue to answer questions on the mailing lists.

In parallel with this "agenda", I will work the scratch-an-itch way, 
as often done in open source development. Currently, the "itches" I 
feel include making replies go to the list by default and handling 
the spam on the mailing lists (which, I have to admit, has decreased 
recently).

I will accept with an open mind suggestions and arguments that prove 
me wrong. I expect the tone of the dialogue to stay civilized as 
until now on this mailing list.

Yours, truly,
Thomas.
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Re: [Aglets-developer] CVS modules

[Luca F. <cat...@us...>]

On 22:47, luned=EC 7 febbraio 2005 Thomas Herlea's cat walking on the keybo=
ard =20
wrote:

> I would like to reiterate my request for the source code of the User
> Manual to become available, so we can convert it to our favourite
> document format and contribute to it by "correcting mistakes, adding
> images or code samples, etc" (quote from the Introduction of the
> User's Manual). :-)
>

I'm sorry for my late replying, but a few minutes ago I uploaded the=20
documentation (even the source) in a module called "docs", thus now all the=
=20
documentation is available for changes.

> It is not necessary for me to become a member of the development team,
> as Luca Ferrari offered, in order to be able to contribute. In
> connection with my last suggestion about making the project modules
> explicit in CVS, I have attached a patch for the CVSROOT/modules file
> which does what I was suggesting.
>

I'll be glad if you will take care of our cvs, and I've added yourself in t=
he=20
team granting CVS access (welcome). Please tell if you don't want to do thi=
s=20
job, as well as waht you'll do (or have done) on the cvs.

Luca


=2D-=20
Luca Ferrari
cat...@us...=20

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[Aglets-developer] CFP: IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

[IEEE A. Security/S. <iee...@ww...>]

Dear Colleague:

We are writing to inform you about the Second IEEE Symposium on
Multi-Agent Security and Survivability to be held in Philadelphia,
on August 30-31, 2005.  Co-located with this event will be the
OpenCougaar 2005 which will be held August 29, 2005.

We are contacting you directly by email because either:

(1) We obtained your name from citation indices (citeseer, ACM, IEEE
    eXplore, NSF award abstracts) indicating that you have recent
    publications in research areas relevant to security and
    survivability in multi-agent systems, secure mobile agents,
    trusted agents or related areas.

(2) You have been involved in past workshops and meetings (sponsored by
    ACM, DARPA or IEEE) related to multi-agent systems, secure mobile
    code, secure agents or agent survivability.

(3) You are a student or co-author of someone in category (1) or (2).

The Organizing Committee welcomes submission of papers describing your
current research in areas relevant to the conference themes.  Papers
are due on March 1.
All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed, with exceptional papers
being selected for inclusion in a subsequent journal special issue.

The conference will consist of plenary sessions, keynote
speakers and a panel session.  Additional information is available at
the conference web site, http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005, and in the
official "Call For Papers" appended below.

Questions can be addressed to iee...@ww....

Thank you for your interest.  Our apologies if you get more than one
copy of this message.  Please feel free to circulate this message to
other interested colleagues.

The IEEE MASS05 Organizing Committee


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			   Call for Papers

The Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability

Call For Papers

IEEE MAS&S 2005

Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 30-31, 2005
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005

Co-located with OpenCougaar 2005
August 29, 2005
http://www.cougaar.org/opencougaar05/

Building on the success of the first symposium in 2004, the Second IEEE 
Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MAS&S) is scheduled again 
for Philadelphia on August 30-31, 2005 with the third symposium slated for 
2006 in Washington, DC.  The First Symposium consisted of 14 technical papers, 
two keynote talks (V.S. Subrahmanian and Joseph Halpern) and a panel session.  
These papers covered topics ranging from attacking agent-based systems, 
inter-agent trust, control-theoretic techniques for managing agent populations 
and agent anonymity.


Agents are enabling data interoperability, migration of legacy systems, 
real-time decision making, control of autonomous and robotic systems, and 
intelligent data processing in applications for financial, telecommunications, 
homeland security, and defense domains. MAS&S focuses on the techniques 
required to support security and survivability of multi-agent systems, as well 
as the use of multi-agent systems to support security and survivability of 
other systems.  Papers are solicited on the following topics:

Protecting agents and agent infrastructure from attack;
Stability, control and scalability of multi-agent systems;
Information assurance for/in agent-based systems;
Trusted agents, reputation mechanisms, secure agent communication;
Multi-level and cross domain security for agents;
Design of robust, error tolerant agents and agent applications;
Tradeoffs between security, survivability and performance of MAS;
Mobile agent safety;
Software engineering environments for secure agents;
Modeling, simulation and validation of agent societies;
Survivable agent infrastructures, physical security for agents; and
Applications, testbeds and fielded systems.

MAS&S welcomes submissions describing theory, implementation, work in 
progress, innovative ideas, field studies, experimental results in real 
environments as well as discussions of completed projects.  All submissions 
will be peer reviewed and exceptional papers will be accepted for presentation 
at the Symposium.  Acceptance rate for the 2004 Symposium was competitive, at 
less than 30%.

All papers must be 10 pages or less in IEEE two-column conference format. 
Details and templates for MS Word and LaTeX are posted at 
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005. A submission to MAS&S 2005 implies that no 
strongly similar paper is accepted or submitted to any other conference or 
journal prior to the notification of acceptance date for MAS&S 2005. At least 
one author of each accepted paper must present the paper at the conference.  
All papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Relevant Dates
The tentative dates related to this event are:
1 March 2005: Paper submissions due
18 April 2005: Author notifications sent
16 May 2005: Camera ready copy due
29 August 2005: OpenCougaar 2005
30-31 August 2005: MAS&S 2005


Conference Organizers

General Chairs:
Suzanne Barber (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)

Program Chairs:
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)
Bill Regli (Drexel University)

Conference Steering Committee:
George Cybenko (Dartmouth)
Mark Greaves (DARPA)
Anil Nerode (Cornell University)
Moshe Kam (Drexel University)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland)

Program Committee:
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Jeffrey Bloom (Sarnoff Corporation)
Jeffrey Bradshaw (IHMC)
Marshall Brinn (BBN Technologies)
Fred Chang (Univ of Texas at Austin)
Vince Cicirello (Drexel University)
Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Grit Denker (SRI)
Thomas Eiter (Technical Univ of Vienna)
Tim Finin (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool)
Yolanda Gil (Univ of Southern California)
Robert Gray (BAE Systems)
Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University)
Soundar Kumara (Penn State University)
Martin Hofmann (Lockheed Martin)
Victor Lesser (Univ of Massachusetts)
Rebecca Montanari (Univ of Bologna)
Marian Nodine (Telcordia)
Sue Rho (Cougaar Software)
Volker Roth (OGM Laboratory)
Kent Seamons (Brigham Young Univ)
Victoria Stavridou-Coleman (Intel)
Niranjan Suri (IHMC)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon Univ)
Giovanni Vigna (Univ of Calif, Santa Barbara)
Jan Vitek (Purdue University)

[Aglets-developer] CVS modules

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Hello, developers,

Hopefully the design, coding, testing, debugging are going well and 
soon we will have the promised release 2.1.0 of aglets in our hands 
to play with and try out. I have confidence that I am not causing a 
big distraction from that work with my renewed requests, but that 
they will bring improvements *in parallel* with the development of 
release 2.1.0.

I would like to reiterate my request for the source code of the User 
Manual to become available, so we can convert it to our favourite 
document format and contribute to it by "correcting mistakes, adding 
images or code samples, etc" (quote from the Introduction of the 
User's Manual). :-)

It is not necessary for me to become a member of the development team, 
as Luca Ferrari offered, in order to be able to contribute. In 
connection with my last suggestion about making the project modules 
explicit in CVS, I have attached a patch for the CVSROOT/modules file 
which does what I was suggesting.

And one of the developers should issue a "cvs tag v2_0_2" to mark the 
revisions that were used to produce Aglets 2.0.2. Aglets 2.0.0 and 
2.0.1 are marked, but for 2.0.2 that tag is missing.

Best wishes,
Thomas.
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