steve@otto.bf.rmit.oz (Steve Iatropoulos) (09/13/89)
I am currently involved in a project of which one of the components
is an 'activity manager' or 'project tracker'.
I would be very interested in coming into contact with people
who have had experience with tools of this kind, or even
any reference to current research in that area will be great.
I have come across one such system, called GENESIS (A. Ramamourthy
(excuse the spelling as I am recalling the author's name from
memory) et al.) from UC Berkeley. Has anyone had experience with this
system?
I can be contacted via email at the address below.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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Steve Iatropoulos, ACSnet: steve@otto.bf.rmit.oz
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..............................................................................aprakash@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Atul Prakash) (09/22/89)
In article <505@otto.bf.rmit.oz> steve@otto.bf.rmit.oz (Steve Iatropoulos) writes: > > I am currently involved in a project of which one of the components > is an 'activity manager' or 'project tracker'. > I have come across one such system, called GENESIS (A. Ramamourthy > (excuse the spelling as I am recalling the author's name from > memory) et al.) from UC Berkeley. Has anyone had experience with this > system? > Steve I was at Berkeley previously and partially involved in the Genesis project. As it stands now, The project really consists of several software subprojects including program abstraction and restructuring and activity management. In resource and activity management, the group mainly proposed and tested out individual ideas through prototypes rather than build a comprehensive system. As far as full usable implementations are concerned, the group has been concentrating on two systems. the first one is the C Information Abstraction System (which has since last year also been taken by AT&T who are trying to turn it into a product). The other system, the Network Event Manager, is a rule-based service for monitoring and responding to events in a network environment. The NEM has a similar structure to that proposed in the Activity Manager. However, the events that it detects are at much higher level of granularity than what is required in the Activity Manager (NEM detects events such as status of machines, people logging on and off, etc. while AM requires detection of operations such as opening of files for editing, etc.). Both the C Information Abstractor and NEM have now been running on UNIX for several years. The group has thought about extending NEM to an Activity Manager but that is yet to be done. In summary, I think that an implementation that puts all the features of an AM together in a nice framework is still something that remains to be done. The system that comes the closest in terms of an implementation may be the DSEE system which runs on Apollos. It is configuration management tool that also provides many useful activity management-like features, although not with the full generality of rules. Reference to it is the paper by David Leblang and Robert Chase in SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 19, 5, pp. 104-113. -- Atul Prakash Dept. of EECS U. of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122.