MONET - Multi Objective NETwork optimization platform
This repository contains two Java projects which build the essence of the platform: the controlserver and the worker. Keep in mind that this is a prototype and still needs some work to be used in a proper fashion.
MONET itself is a platform that allows comparison of algorithms (currently only in Java).
Most of the documentation is in the doc folder as markdown files with a number prefix. They are used by the running platform itself and is therefore not put into this document.
This platform (as well as some algorithms, parsers and a graph representation) have been created in a work group which is part of the studies at a university to complete the Master of Science degree at the "Technische Universität Dortmund". We decided to release this project under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3, 19 November 2007). Some interfaces are put under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3, 29 June 2007) so that you can even develop algorithms to compare on this platform if you are not allowed to disclose the source.
- http://www.mongodb.org/ - The database backend we chose for development.
- http://maven.apache.org/ - The build system that we chose.
The Controlserver is a Java web application that can be deployed on application servers. As of now it was only tested with the JBoss appliation server, but as we did not use any JBoss specific libraries or tools, it shoul run on other application servers as well.
Simple Java program that runs OSGi bundles which conform to the interfaces defined in the monet.interfaces package.
It is generally possible to write workers for other programming languages as mainly the network communication must be reimplemented which is relatively simple. And the control server must be taught to distinguish between java packages and non-java packages.
We are not interested in pushing this project into a production ready state, mainly because we do not have any need for it. But if you plan to do so, just tell me (woozletoff@gmail.com) and I will update this README to link to your fork of the project.