Madhukar's MSE portfolio

MART is a multi-agent system (implemented in Java) that helps a researcher/author in writing an article by automatically searching and dynamically generating links while an article is being typed in Microsoft Word.

Major Professor: Dr Scott DeLoach
Committee Members:
Dr Daniel Andresen
Dr Virg Wallentine

Timelog for Fall 2003

Date	Start	Stop	Interrupt	Delta	Task	Comments
09/02/03	13:00	13:20	0	20 min	Meeting with Dr DeLoach	Dr DeLoach asked me to explore multicasting for automatic discovery of Sleuth agents
09/05/03	21:20	23:00	10 min	90 min	Researching multicasting	Read articles on the web on how to multicast in Java
09/06/03	21:00	0:10	10	180 min	Coding.	Added a multicasting feature to AgentGoogle, AgentTeoma and AgentManager
09/09/03	13:00	13:20	0 min	20 min	Meeting Dr DeLoach	Discussed the implementation of multicasting and found out that it was not working on Linuix machines
09/09/03	13:30	14:50	0	80 min	Troubleshooting	Realized that multicasting was not working because the Linux machines at CIS has been configured to quietly drop all multicasting packets.
10/09/03	21:00	22:00	0 min	60 min	Coding	Made AgentManager.MulticastReceiver discover running Sleuth agents automatically and store the information in a new class called RunningAgents.java
11/09/03	21:30	23:00	0 min	90 min	Coding	Based on the information about all the Sleuth agents running at a given time, the AgentManager dynamically creates the conversation initiators.
12/09/03	21:00	21:20	0 min	20 min	Coding	Wrote two methods of AgentKey class
14/09/03	22:00	22:40	0 min	40 min	Coding	Wrote one method of AgentKey class
09/16/03	9:00	9:30	0 min	30 min	Meeting with Dr DeLoach	Showed multicasting demo
09/21/03	21:00	0:30	20 min	170 min	Coding	Wrote AgentKey. It now reads the user inputted article and makes KeyObjects for each word, ranks them and sends back a vector of KeyObject to the AgentManager
09/22/03	9:00	9:20	0 min	20 min	Meeting with Dr DeLoach	Told Dr DeLoach about the progress.
09/23/03	21:30	23:04	0 min	94 min	Coding	Wrote a parser method that reads an HTML file and extracts only relevant results.
09/24/03	22:05	23:50	0 min	105 min	Coding	AgentProducer now gets a vector of RawResults and it returns the html code wrapped in a RawResult object back to Manager..
09/25/03	20:50	22:00	0 min	70 min	Coding	Manager extracts result sent by AgentProducer and writes to an HTML file
09/27/03	21:30	23:40	0 min	130 min	Coding	Wrote UserPref and connected it to word. This takes user inputted preferences and fires off AgentManager from MS Word.
09/28/03	10:30	13:50	20 min	180 min	Coding	Search is now based on the Id of the Agents and Producer only extracts certain number of results based on the id number of Agents who sent the raw result
10/03/03	15:03	16:27	0 min	104 min	Documentation	Wrote six pages of UserManual
10/07/03	9:00	9:20	0 min	20 min	Meeting Dr DeLoach	Showed the project demonstration
10/08/03	21:07	21:52	0 min	45 min	Documentation	Refined Project Evaluation document
10/09/03	12:07	2:47	0 min	100 min	Documentation	Refined Assessment Evaluation document
10/09/03	21:33	22:27	0 min	116 min	Documentation	Refined User Manual document
10/09/03	23:00	23:20	0 min	20 min	Updating webpages and timelogs	Updated website
10/11/03	21:00	22:10	0 min	70 min	Documentation	Making class and sequence diagrams in Rational Rose
10/18/03	16:00	18:07	0 min	127 min	Documentation	Making class and sequence diagrams in Rational Rose
10/18/03	21:00	00:37	0 min	217 min	Documentation	Documenting methods and generating html pages through Doxygen
10/19/03	15:50	16:05	0 min	15 min	Updating webpages and timelogs	Updated website
10/21/03	9:00	9:20	0 min	20 min	Meeting Dr DeLoach	All documentation approved for final presentation
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MSE Portfolio of Madhukar Kumar

Fall 2003

Phase 3 documents

Phase 2 documents

Phase 1 documents