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Announcements
- AAAI'96 Workshop on Agent
Modeling
- The workshop will take place Aug. 4; accepted papers will be on-line.
- Slides for AUV96 now available
- These are the slides used for the presentation of our paper at AUV'96
on the MAUV (multi-AUV) project.
- Ideas for student projects
- A page describing a set of possible student projects has been added to
the server. These projects are tied to the CDPS group's work and are
the areas of AI, DAI, graphics, graphical user interface, simulation,
and networks. Note: This page is available only from CS
department machines. Visitors from off-campus who are interested
should send us mail.
- New paper
- An abstract
for the paper "Organization and Reorganization of Autonomous Oceanographic
Sampling Networks", by R.M. Turner, E.H. Turner, and D.R. Blidberg, is
now available on-line; the full paper is
available to the CDPS group for fair-use purposes (due to IEEE
copyright restrictions). The paper will appear in the Proceedings
of the 1996 IEEE
Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology.
The Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maine (in collaboration with Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of Northeastern University) focuses on the problem
of getting autonomous, intelligent agents to cooperate with one another to
solve complicated problems. CDPS is a subfield of distributed artificial
intelligence, which is itself a subfield of artificial intelligence.
Our primary domain is cooperative problem solving by groups of autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs). Aside from an interesting and challenging domain in which to
develop and test CDPS methods, AUVs in general and cooperative systems of AUVs
in particular have immense potential for science and industry as well.
We
have ongoing research projects in intelligent AUV control, communication
between autonomous agents, and coordination of problem solving by groups of
autonomous agents.
The CDPS Research Group was founded in 1990 at the University of New
Hampshire. In the fall of 1995, the group moved to the University of Maine.
The group involves both undergraduate and graduate students in AI research.
There are usually between five and seven students in our group. Of the seven
undergraduates that have participated in our group for more than one semester,
four have gone on to graduate school, two have co-authored research papers,
and one is currently working in industry in artificial intelligence.
What's New
Other information about us:
Other CDPS and DAI pages:
Information about AUVs and ocean science:
Other WWW pages at the University of Maine:
Other places of interest:
Usage
statistics.
Direct questions to Prof.
Roy Turner , rmt@unh.edu, or Prof. Elise Turner, eht@unh.edu
Our primary domain is cooperative problem solving by groups of autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs). Aside from an interesting and challenging domain in which to
develop and test CDPS methods, AUVs in general and cooperative systems of AUVs
in particular have immense potential for science and industry as well.