Interagent Communication Research at UMaine

Interagent communication research in the Department of Computer Science takes place with the Maine Software Agent & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MaineSAIL). Current and past projects include:

• Informativeness: Selecting what to say during problem solving based on the usefulness of the information
• Multimodal interfaces: Joint project with the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering/National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis focusing on interfaces using both text and graphics to obtain information from a user
• CoCo: Discourse-level control of natural language conversations with problem-solving systems
• COLA: Interagent communication language for low-bandwidth situations, e.g., for communication between autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)