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Department of Computer Science 5752 Neville Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5752 Phone: 207-581-3909 E-mail: rmt@umcs.maine.edu |
Dr. Turner's research interests and publication areas include: adaptive planning and context-sensitive reasoning; intelligent control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); distributed artificial intelligence, in particular cooperative distributed problem solving (CDPS); AI in biology; cognitive science; and diagnostic reasoning.
He is a co-founder and co-director of the Maine Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group, the director of the Orca project (NSF grant BCS-9211914), and co-director of the MAUV/CoDA project (ONR grants N0001-14-96-1-5009 and N0001-14-98-1-0648). He maintains the Context in AI Web site for the context research community.
Dr. Turner is the author of over 40 publications, including a book on adaptive reasoning (Adaptive Reasoning for Real-World Problems: A Schema-Based Approach, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994). He is a member of AAAI, IEEE, ACM, the Cognitive Science Society, and Computists International.