Progress Report 2 Abstract This project consists of

Progress Report #2 Abstract This project consists of building a software agent to assist in the project selection for the infrastructure budgeting plan. The finance and administration department sets criteria for project selection each year. The city consists of different divisions: Water, Sewer, Transportation and Drainage (there are more but we are only working with these division for this project). Each division proposes a set of projects each year. The proposed software agent will help automate and streamline the project selection process for the budget plan. We propose a By Wafa Elgarah multi-plane agent to achieve such a purpose. CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 1

Project Selection System GUI The project selection system consists of a web server, a database and a GUI interface. There are two GUI interfaces; one for the finance and administration to enter the criteria for project selection and the second one is for the departments to enter and submit their projects. The multi-plane agent is hosted on a web server and communicate with a database where the information is stored. The following slides explain CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 2

Control plane The control plane goal is to look whethere any projects in the database that have not been evaluated. If the result is affirmative the evaluation process starts. Otherwise it is goes into the wait state. CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 3

Project Submission plane CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 4

Project Submission plane details The project submission plane consists on the following states: Ø init. Project. Submission: this display the interface where users can input data abou the project. This data consists of project. ID, Description, Budget (cost of the project) Neighborhood (the area where the project is to take place), Division (to indicate which department is submitting the project), estimated_duration (how long does it take to finish the project), Priority (high, medium, low), status (default is false whether it has been evaluated or not). ØVerifycontrols: once the user enters the data and hit the submit button, the strategy at this state verifies the data for integrity and errors to assure correct data is entered. ØConfirm. Verify: displays the data entered to the user along with a message “is the information you entered correct, press submit to confirm” ØSubmit: the strategy of this state writes the data to the database. ØConfirmmessage: displays a message to the user confirming that the project was added successfully. And prompts them to add another project (if they want). Ø Error. Message: display an error in case of failure. CPA 5937 Dr. D. message C. Marinescu 5

Criteria Submission plane CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 6

Criteria Submission plane details The criteria submission plane consists on the following states: Ø init. Criteria. Submission: this displays the interface where users can input data about the criteria for selecting projects. These criteria consists of the total budget amounts for each division, the neighborhoods with highest priority. ØVerifycontrols: once the user enters the data and hit the submit button, the strategy at this state verifies the data for integrity and errors to assure correct data is entered. ØConfirm. Verify: displays the data entered to the user along with a message “is the information you entered correct, press submit to confirm” ØSubmit: the strategy of this state writes the data to the database. ØConfirmmessage: displays a message to the user confirming that the criteria was added successfully. CPA 5937 Dr. error D. C. Marinescu Ø Error. Message: display an message in case of failure. 7

Project evaluation plane CPA 5937 Dr. D. C. Marinescu 8

Project Selection plane details The project selection plane consists on the following states: Ø initselection: the strategy of this state checks the database to see if there any projects that has not been evaluated. If the status of the project is false then it moves to the next state ØGetproject: This strategy reads the data for the project with status false and puts it in a recordset. ØGetcriteria: This strategy read the criteria from the database and gets the first criterion. Øevaluate: the strategy checks whether the project fits the selected criterion. Ønextcriteria: Gets the next criterion from the database. If end of file then move to next state else go back to Gecriteria state. Ø Writeevaluation: writes the results of the evaluation in the database CPA 5937 D. C. state Marinescu and then goes back to the. Dr. initial to evaluate next project. 9