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Foreword

The purpose of this web site is to offer to the Internet Community selected resources developped in the Department of Computing Science and Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) of the "Université catholique de Louvain" (UCL), located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
UCL is a member university of the CLUSTER consortium.

These resources include open software and documents considered useful for at least a few members of the Internet Community. The allowed use and the kind of support provided are explained for each of these resources, in the respective subdirectories.

Our intention is to contribute to the free availability of good quality software usable on the platforms we consider important, for various reasons: by alphabetical order: LINUX, Macintosh, SOLARIS (x86 and sparc) and WINDOWS 2000. Some softwares may work on other platforms.

UCL is a french speaking university. Thus, some of the documents are only available in french.

Marc Lobelle

Contents

Available now:

• C-BGP: C-BGP is an efficient BGP decision process simulator, developped by Bruno Quoitin. It can be used to compute the interdomain routes of all the routers in a domain. It can also be used to evaluate traffic engineering methods on large Internet topologies."
• Cofale: COFALE is a Web-based open-source adaptive e-Learning platform supporting cognitive flexibility, one important facet of constructivist learning theories. COFALE is based on ATutor, an open-source learning content management system.
  Here are the main features of COFALE:
  (1) COFALE has inherited all features of the ATutor system,
  (2) COFALE provides students with many learning tools fostering cognitive flexibility,
  (3) COFALE provides teachers with guidelines and a set of easy-to-use authoring tools for the design and use of Web-based courses supporting cognitive flexibility,
  (4) COFALE also provides teachers with a set of learner modeling tools in order to implement adaptation support for different kinds of students.
• Ekiga: a videoconferencing software developped by Damien Dandras, using the OPEN H323 libraries and the gnome desktop environment. It runs currently on LINUX. Versions for SOLARIS X86 and Windows are in development.
• libGDS: is a library of functions and generic data structures. The library contains dynamic arrays, hash tables, radix trees, Patricia trees, tokenizers, FIFO queues, stacks, string management functions and memory management functions. libGDS is written in C, developped by Bruno Quoitin and Sébastien Tandel and is provided under the LGPL license.
• The Mozart Programming System: a full featured development platform for intelligent, distributed applications developped by DFKI, UdS, and SFB 378 (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Universität des Saarlandes) SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) UCL (Université catholique de Louvain).
  Mozart has advanced support for open distribution, fault-tolerance, constraint programming, and logic programming. The platform includes a full-fledged development environment with many tools and extensive documentation including tutorials. Applications developed include a tournament planner (Friar Tuck), a collaborative graphic editor (TransDraw), an extended version of ICQ (MIM), a corpus browser, a real-time bus scheduler, a configuration tool, and much more.
  Systems supported: Many Unix platforms, Windows 98/NT/2000
  
• FractaSketch 2.03 : a drawing tool for Macintosh developped by Peter Van Roy. FractaSketch allows you to quickly design and draw beautiful images of great complexity and subtle colorization. The full release is now available free of charge as a Stuffit 3.5 SEA (self-extracting) archive by clicking on the above link. The release contains the program and manual, both in English and French versions, and a wide variety of striking original drawings.
  I am looking for people to do ports to PowerMac (easy) and Windows (hard). Please contact me if you are interested.
  System supported: Macintosh.
• Netboard: Netboard is a graphical network management program for UNIX systems. It can be used to configure the network interfaces (including specific wireless parameters) and the routing table, as well as to store and switch between configuration profiles. Developped in 2005 by Johannes HOCK.
• Santiano: a relational database browser, developped by Michaël Meyts. Santiano is a web based software showing the contents of a database and allowing to navigate through it by hyperlinks on foreign keys. Also offers other functionalities like execution of SQL queries and hiding some fields from the view. Highly customizable by CSS and I18N. Oriented towards Java web based technologies such as JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, Struts framework, and taking advantage of standards like XML.
• A full RSIP protocol implementation for LINUX by Cédric de Launois.
  The implementations of the server and the client are intended to be in full conformity with RFC 3103 "RSIP protocol specification". Both RSA-IP and RSAP-IP are supported.
  RSIP has been designed as an alternative to NAT but with the additional requirement to preserve end-to-end packet integrity, a feature not provided by NAT. RSIP is based on the concept of granting a host (called RSIP host) of network A a presence in another network, B, by allowing it to use resources (e.g. addresses and other routing parameters) of network B.
• RSAIP-UCL:A RSIP based Soho router developped by Cédric de Launois, Geoffroy Fauveaux, and Jean Honlet. The computers behind these routers obtain automatically from the router leased public IP addresses. These addresses are obtained when needed by the router from a central RSIP server. The computers behind the routers can act as clients as well as servers for any internet application. They have permanent DNS names registered in a modified DNS server that initiates the allocation of a temporary public address to the DNS name it receives a query. Extensions for the RSIP protocol have been proposed for this application.
  Communications between computers in the SOHO network use private IP addresses. In order to save public IP addresses, computers in the SOHO network that do not need public addresses can use NAT when accessing the Internet.
  The router software runs currently on LINUX; the central servers (RSIP, DNS) run on LINUX and SOLARIS, the clients run on LINUX and SOLARIS. Clients for WINDOWS 2000 and BEOS are in development.
• GHITLE: A graphical tool, developped by Cédric de Launois, to generate hierarchical topologies of the Internet at the Autonomous system (AS) level. these topologies are intended to evaluate the impact of new architectures and/or protocols on the current or future internet.
• Solaris x86 utilities: A few locally contributed utilities for Solaris x86.
• DecomposeAlgo: Using a Tool Case for designing a reusable algorithms. Developped in 2006 by Dmitri Kozir .

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Dernière mise à jour: 7 novembre 2006
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Marc Lobelle <ml@info.ucl.ac.be>