The Aggregation Nets Project

The Aggregation Nets Project Goals Investigation of mobile agent-embodied dataflow networks (aggregation nets) as an adaptive mechanism for dynamic re-mapping of long-running network/service monitoring computations, aimed at reducing the costs of monitoring. Funding The project had been funded in parts by Telcordia, and by the British Government through an Overseas Research Students (ORS) award. Supervisors Michael Luck (in 1999-2003) Roland Wilson (in 2003-2004) Current status Final thesis version submitted to the library November 19, 2004. Tools UCB/LBNL/VINT Network Simulator (ns) The Tcl Library OTcl (MIT Object Tcl) GraphViz The Stanford GraphBase Network Weather Service METIS: Family of Multilevel Partitioning Algorithms Resources Agent Transfer Protocol -- ATP/0.1 (as defined for Aglets, forms the basis of the simulated Drifter transport and messaging protocols) The Dataflow Web Pages George Karypis et al. on graph partitioning Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) FAQ Reinforcement Learning FAQ Reinforcement Learning Repository GLU papers Mobile Code Bibliography COIN publications Publications S. Chamberlain, M. Little, A. Poylisher, A. Umar. Aggregation Networks: Efficient and Adaptive Data Acquisition For Dynamic Distributed Environments, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the Advanced Telecommunications and Information Distribution Research Program (US Army Research Laboratory), Adelphi, Maryland, USA, February 1999. R. Pinheiro, A. Poylisher, H. Caldwell. Mobile Agents for Aggregation of Network Management Data, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (ASA/MA'99), Palm Springs, California, USA, October 1999. A. Poylisher, M. Luck. Modelling and Simulation of Aggregation Nets, Proceedings of the AISB'01 Symposium on Software Mobility and Adaptive Behaviour, University of York, UK, March 2001. A. Poylisher, M. Luck. Modelling and Simulation of Aggregation Nets, Proceedings of the First International IEEE/ACM Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Brisbane, Australia, May 2001. Related work Distributed Process Networks (University of Adelaide)