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August 15, 2007: Because of the fact that the current project leader Jan Peters leaves the Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, the SeMoA project has been transfered to SourceForge.net. In this context, the proprietary license model has been transformed into the "Lesser GNU Public License" (LPGL).
August 15, 2007: The book "Sicherheit und Rechtsverbindlichkeit mobiler Agenten" presenting agent-related research results of project MAP has been published. See SeMoA publications.
June 26, 2006: A new SeMoA distribution is available with a bunch of new features, improvements and bugfixes. The interoperability framework for JADE (v3.4) has been included into the current distribution, yet. Support for OSGi will follow. For further information refer to Changelog.
May 1, 2006: The old CVS mirror containing the latest version of SeMoA for has been replaced by a Subversion repository. For further information refer to SVN mirror.
December 22, 2005: The legal implications of mobile agent technology have been re-evaluated in a study based on the new security mechanisms for agent migration (cf. theses Transaction Security for the Migration of Mobile Agents [ english abstract] and Secure Partial Results [ english abstract]). The study is part of the research project VESUV and took place on December 21, 2005 in Darmstadt, Germany. The provet group around Prof. Alexander Roßnagel at University of Kassel, Germany has been involved as partner. The results of the study will be published in a book in 2006.
August 12, 2005: A new SeMoA distribution is available with a couple of new features. The Web Service Engine which is part of the distribution integrates mobile agents and web services in a seamless, bidirectional, and fully automated manner. New example applications have been added, and some bugs have been fixed. For further information refer to Changelog.
April 08, 2005: A new SeMoA distribution is now available: This distribution provides an advanced agent programming model which builds on hierarchical state machines based on the Diploma thesis "About the component-oriented design of mobile agents and their behavior" [ english abstract] by Jan Haevecker. Further the general SeMoA package prefix for Fraunhofer-IGD has been renamed from 'DE.FhG.IGD' to 'de.fhg.igd' due to problems on Windows systems when having packages with both prefixes 'de.' and 'DE.'. For further information refer to Changelog.
October 11, 2004: A new SeMoA distribution is available with several changes and bugfixes, for further information refer to Changelog.
July 6, 2004: A new SeMoA distribution is available: Beside several bugfixes and improvements, this distribution provides a new example agent TicTacToe, the well known game. From now on, distributions are released quarterly.
March 4, 2004: A new SeMoA distribution is available: From now on, all necessary third party libraries as well as the corresponding licenses are included in one ZIP file. Additionally, the SeMoA distribution can be downloaded separately: The core-Package, 3rd-party libraries, the JavaDoc manual.
March 1, 2004: Visit the SeMoA team at CeBIT 2004 (March 18-24). Location: "Secure Mobile Environments", Fraunhofer-IGD, Hall 11, Stand A24, Hannover, Germany.
July 24, 2003: A web page and a tutorial about CODEC have been added. CODEC is a Java package for encoding and decoding ASN.1 data structures which is part the SeMoA distribution (see CODEC).
June 23, 2003: A new SeMoA distribution is available: Beside several bugfixes, this distribution provides a more comfortable way to start SeMoA, which has been tested with SunOS, Linux, and Window 98/NT/2K (see SeMoA-Starter).
April 11, 2003: The first SeMoA-Net servers are online and accessible to the public (see SeMoA-Net).
March 31, 2003: LDAP/ATLAS server has been replaced: semoaext.igd.fhg.de is online, again!
March 18, 2003: Despite semoaext.igd.fhg.de is not available at the moment, the current SeMoA distribution allows starting a server with following adjustments of the configuration file semoa/etc/rc.global: set LDAP to disable; set ATLAS_CLIENT to disable; set ATLAS_TRACER to disable.
March 18, 2003: Due to hardware problems our LDAP and ATLAS server semoaext.igd.fhg.de is currently unavailable. That's why certificate exchange as well as agent tracking is not provided, right now. We will replace this server as soon as possible.
March 12, 2003: CeBIT 2003 has started in Hannover: first pictures of the Fraunhofer stand are available.
February 17, 2003: We changed the default password in the demo keystores shipped with the SeMoA distribution. Please use semoa.org as new password.
January 1, 2003: Happy new year! Visit the SeMoA team at CeBIT 2003! March 12-19, 2003. Hall 11, A24. Hannover, Germany.
December 9, 2002: Restructured migration protocol via raw socket connection. The new protocol uses now SHIP (simple host information protocol) for looking up the raw ingate's server port.
November 8, 2002: Finished SHIP service. The acronym SHIP stands for simple host information protocol and allows remote queries about current server configuration. This is important e.g. for quering the actual communication port or the maximum size for an agent that is accepted at a specific ingate.
September 15, 2002: Corrected bug in CVS mirroring. The daily update of SeMoA sources is at your service again. Please refer the download area for details.
August 8, 2002: SeMoA got a new policy syntax which enables to state role-based security policies. Check out source code or JavaDoc of class de.fhg.igd.semoa.security.PolicyParser.
May 1, 2002: SeMoA was used for a study with focus on legal implications of mobile agent technology. The study is part of the research project MAP and took place on April 29-30, 2002 in Darmstadt, Germany. Involved partners are Siemens and the provet group around Prof. Alexander Roßnagel at University of Kassel, Germany. Check out our press release (German language).