Abstract All effective agents are context-sensitive. This is true for biological agents, and it must also be true for artificial agents if they are to succeed. Context-mediated behavior (CMB) is one approach to endowing artificial agents with context-sensitive, context- appropriate behavior. It relies on explicitly representing contexts—important classes of situations—as contextual schemas and associating with […]
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This paper explores an alternative vision for upper ontologies which is more effective at facilitating the sharability and reusability of ontologies. The notion of generic ontologies is characterized through the formalization of ontological commitments and choices. Ontology repositories are used to modularize ontologies so that any particular upper ontology is equivalent to the union of […]
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Stacy Doore will defend her PhD dissertation Thursday April 27 at 12 in room 336 Boardman Hall. All are invited to attend. Abstract: SPATIAL RELATIONS AND NATURAL-LANGUAGE SEMANTICS FOR INDOOR SCENES Over the past 15 years, there have been increased efforts to represent and communicate spatial information about entities within indoor environments. Automated annotation of […]
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COS498 Advanced Video Game Programming with Unity Team Members: Al Bakir, Arabatzis, Butler, Caron, Christman, Dignan, Guo,m Herrschaft, Norman, O’Brien, Owen, Owens, Palmeter, Pettegrow, Rasmussen, Scontras, Segee, Segee, Shin, Thacker, Vanidestine, Zhao Will demonstrate their games 3:30 – 5:00 PM, Thursday, May 4th in Room 120 Neville Hall Games include: Several VR games, Real-Time Strategy […]
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Kate Beard has been selected as the 25th UCGIS Fellow. Congratulations, Kate! http://www.ucgis.org/kate-beard
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From UMaine to a Global Law Practice: Finding Opportunity in a Changing World Jeff Johnson, BS ’93, MS ’95 April 28, 2017 at 12 noon at the Foster Center for Student Innovation Jeff Johnson (BS ’93, MS ’95) is Co-Chair of the Technology Transactions and Licensing practice at WilmerHale, a global law firm with ~1000 attorneys worldwide. […]
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SEEKING DIRECTOR FOR SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Position Title: Director of the School of Computing and Information Science (id:40004) Department: School of Computing and Information Sciences Bargaining Unit: Nonrep Faculty # of Months: 9 Purpose: The University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science seeks applicants for a senior faculty position as […]
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Chris Dorr successfully defended his Ph.D thesis last Friday. Congrats Dr. Dorr! In his thesis work he demonstrated that the OPRA theory which his advisor Dr. Reinhard Moratz developed in the last decade is sufficient to successfully attack the notoriously difficult problem of shape similarity.
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One team representing University of Maine, participated in the biggest annual computer programming contest in the world. They finished with the second highest ranking of all teams in the north-eastern part of the U.S., including Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. This UMaine team, named RedZeppelin, consists of Graham Van Goffrier […]
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Mohamed Makhlouf (Electrical Engineering, class of 1975) will be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Francis Crowe Society at the fall induction on December 9, 4:30pm in the Hill Auditorium. The Francis Crowe Society recognizes new UMaine engineering graduates as well as distinguished alumni. Mohamed is originally from Palestine. His family moved to Egypt […]
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