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This page contains links to documents authored by project members, to software programs and components developed by the project, and to other tools we've found useful and collected here for your convenience.

Each entry has a title, a summary, a list of authors, a date of publication or when it was last updated, a distribution designation, and links to the material in various formats. Each entry also has its bookmark noted, to help authors making links to it from other web pages.


Documents

File Repository Transfer Protocol

The initial design document for the File Repository Transfer Protocol, which is a core component of the project's software.

By:           Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         February, 1995
Distribution: External
Publication:  Technical Report no. 95-21
Formats:      .ps, HTML (abstract)
Bookmark:     FileRepository

Secure Communication in FRTP

Realization of authentication and privacy in the File Repository Transfer Protocol.

By:           Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         February, 1995
Distribution: External
Publication:  Technical Report no. 95-20
Formats:      .ps, HTML (abstract)
Bookmark:     FileRepository

Some Hints on the Theory and Practice of Authentication in Distributed Systems

The report explains some details in Lampson et al.s "Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice."

By:           Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         November, 1995
Distribution: External
Publication:  Technical Report no. 96-24
Formats:      .ps, HTML (abstract)
Bookmark:     FileRepository

The Virtual Secretary Architecture for Secure Software Agents

The paper presents the Virtual Secretary Architecture (ViSe1).

By:           Hartvigsen, Gunnar; Johansen, Stig; Helme, Arne;
	      Widding, Roy A.; Bellika, Gustav; Cao, Wen
Date:         August, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  In Proceeding of the First International Conference 
	      on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents 
	      and Multi-Agent Technology (April 22-24, London).
Formats:      .ps
Bookmark:     FileRepository

Cooperator-Base + Task-Base for Agent Modeling: the Virtual Secretary Approach

The paper presents a model for cooperation in a multiagent system (ViSe2).

By:           Cao, Wen; Bian, Cheng-Gang; Hartvigsen, Gunnar
Date:         August, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  In Proceeding of the Agent Modeling Workshop, 13th National Conference on 
	      Artificial Intelligence - AAAI'96, August 4-8, Portland, Oregon, USA
Formats:      .ps
Bookmark:     FileRepository

Security in the PASTA project

The report presents the system model for the work on security in the project.

By:           Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         October, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  Technical Report no. 96-27
Formats:      .ps, HTML (abstract)
Bookmark:     FileRepository

Off-line Delegation in a File Repository

A minimal syntax and semantics for delegation tokens in a distributed file repository.

By:           Helme, Arne; Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         October, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  1996 DIMACS Workshop on Trust Management in Distributed 
              Systems, Rutgers University, October, 1996
Formats:      .ps (45 k)
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

Security Functions for a File Repository

The paper discusses a two-step process for authentication and authorization in a distributed file repository.

By:           Helme, Arne; Stabell-Kulø, Tage
Date:         November, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  Submitted
Formats:      .ps (61 k)
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

A File Repository Based Distributed Diary in a Mobile Environment

 

By:           Olsen, Dag-Frode
Date:         December, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  M.Eng. thesis (sivilingeniør)
Formats:      .ps (3.96 Mb)
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

The Software Network: Providing Continous Network Connectivity for Multihoming Mobile Computers

 

By:           Brattli, Dag
Date:         December, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  M.Eng. thesis (sivilingeniør)
Formats:      .ps 
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

XXX

 

By:           Hellemo, Ingeborg Østrem
Date:         December, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  M.Eng. thesis (sivilingeniør)
Formats:      .ps (3.96 Mb)
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

XXXX

 

By:           Grenersen, Tor Andre
Date:         December, 1996
Distribution: External
Publication:  M.Eng. thesis (sivilingeniør)
Formats:      .ps (3.96 Mb)
Bookmark:     MainControllerDesign

 

Achieving Efficient Cooperation in a Multi-Agent System: the Twin-Base Modeling

Experimental results of the Twin-Base Modelling.

By:           Cao, Wen, and Bian, Cheng-Gang, and Hartvigsen, Gunnar
Date:         Februar, 1997
Distribution: External
Publication:  In Proceeding of Cooperative Information Agents - DAI 
	      meets Database Systems (CIA'97), forthcoming.
Formats:      .ps
Bookmark:     FileRepository
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Software

FRTP

Project output for 1st year deliverables.

By:           Project
Date:         March 17, 1995
Distribution: Internal
Formats:      .zip (628 k)
Bookmark:     FeasibilityPrototype

Software network

Project output for 2nd year deliverables.

By:           Project
Date:         December 15, 1996
Distribution: Internal
Formats:      .zip (628 k)
Bookmark:     FeasibilityPrototype

 

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Tools

PKZIP

File compression and decompression utilities for creating archives under Windows.

By:           PKWare
Date:         March 17, 1995
Distribution: External, Shareware
Formats:      .exe (725 k)
Bookmark:     PKZIP
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Distribution Designations

Internal
May only be viewed by people inside the project.
External
May be viewed by people outside the project.
Published
Has already appeared in an external publication.
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Document Format Definitions

HTML    web page (HyperText Markup Language)
.ps     PostScript
.doc    Microsoft Word
.fm	FrameMaker
.rtf    Rich Text
.zip    archive file for Windows
.tar    archive file for UNIX
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Last updated: January 21, 1997.