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+BitTorrent Automatic Command and Analysis Infrastructure
+
+The BitTorrent Automatic Command and Analysis Infrastructure is to be
+used for automatic command of BitTorrent clients. BitTorrent clients
+will be automatically started, stopped, paused using current framework.
+
+Clients are instrumented in order to output status and verbose logging
+messages for subsequent analysis.
+
+Status messages and verbose messages are to be collected, parsed, stored
+and analysed. Our goal is to determine specific weaknesses and possible
+enhancements in BitTorrent implementation.
+
+We are currently focusing on libtorrent-raster[1] and Tribler[2].
+
+This work is part of the EU FP7 P2P-Next project[3].
+
+[1] http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/
+[2] http://www.tribler.org/trac
+[3] http://www.p2p-next.org/
+
+
+Contributions from:
+ * Adriana Drăghici, adriana008@gmail.com
+ * Marius Sandu-Popa, sandupopamarius@gmail.com
+ * Răzvan Deaconescu, razvan.deaconescu@cs.pub.ro
+
+
+autorun/
+       - scripts and Python programs for automatic deploy and run
+         of BitTorrent clients
+       - check autorun/README
+
+ppf/
+       - scripts, Python programs and SQL files for parsing, storing
+         and analysis of BitTorrent client status and verbose log
+         messages
+       - see ppf/README
+
+instrumentation/
+       - modified BitTorrent clients to be used in the current
+         infrastructure
+       - updates/modifications are usually geared towards enabling
+         verbose message output (BitTorrent protocol information) from
+         original client
+       - see instrumentation/README
+
+old/
+       - old scripts and programs from related work
+       - see old/README