Roy M. Turner
Associate Professor
MaineSAIL

 


Department of Computer Science
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469 USA
Tel: 1.207.581.3909
E-mail: rmt@umcs.maine.edu
Last modified: Fri Jun 2 13:31:20 EDT 2000
Spring 2000 schedule:
    Office hours: WTh 1:30-3:00 or by appointment
    COS 570 (Multiagent Systems/DAI): TTh 9:30-10:45
    COS 490 (Computers, Ethics, and Society): W 5:30-8:45pm
Research
interests:
    My research area is artificial intelligence, and my interests include problem solving (planning, context-sensitive reasoning), cooperative distributed problem solving, intelligent control of autonomous underwater vehicles, software agents, and AI in biology and medicine.
Research
groups:
  • MaineSAIL: University of Maine Software Agents & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  • CDPS: Cooperative distributed problem solving; part of MaineSAIL
Institute
membership:
  • Agent Institute: University of Maine institute focusing on agents and agent-based systems research
  • AUSI: The Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
Research
projects:
  • Orca: Intelligent mission controller for autonomous underwater vehicles, other real-world agents, and multiagent systems
  • CoDA: Intelligent control, including self-organization and reorganization, of autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (AOSNs) and other multiagent systems
  • Context-sensitive reasoning: Enabling autonomous agents to respond quickly, automatically, and appropriately to their context; the context-mediated behavior approach to context-sensitive reasoning is part of the Orca project. For more information on context, see the Context Web Site.
  • Multi-modal interfaces: In collaboration with the UMaine Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
  • Biological modeling: Modeling complex biological systems, such as the nudibranch-hydroid predator-prey system that develops early in community succession in marine fouling communities (i.e., those that develop on cleared surfaces in the ocean).
Publications:
    See the MaineSAIL papers page or my vita.
Biographical &
personal
pages:
Short biographical sketch
Curriculum Vitae
Personal home page
Faculty
advisor for:
UMaine Circle K Service Club
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society
Links:
    UMaine Agent Institute UMaine Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group Context Web Site
 
     
 
     
 
    The Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute Shoals Marine Laboratory
 
     
 
    UM Circle K Club
 
     
 
     
 
 
     
 
     
 
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