This senior-level/graduate-level is the beginning course for AI offered at
UMaine. Junior-level students often take this course, even without the
prerequisite (COS
350); see the professor
for more information. Entering Ph.D. students should sign up for this
course as COS 570; see the professor for more information.
This
topics course covers multiagent systems (MAS) and distributed AI. It is
often run as a research seminar in which the entire class works together
on a publishable (or publishable-quality) paper.
Natural Language Processing (COS 570).
This course is
often taught as a research seminar in which the entire class works
together on a publishable (or publishable-quality) paper. For example, in
the Spring 1999 semester, the class wrote a paper (``Aspects of context
for understanding multi-modal communication''; E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner,
J. Phelps, C. Grunden, M. Neale, and J. Mailman) that appeared in the
Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling
and Using Context (CONTEXT'99).
Topics in AI (COS 570).
COS 570 is the course number currently used
for most graduate AI courses; this will change in the future. For now,
however, a COS 570 course will almost always be offered in the Spring
semester. Sometimes it will be one of the two above, and other times it
will be other advanced topics in AI.
COS 598 - Introduction to Expert Systems.
This course has only been
taught once. It could be taught again if there is sufficient student
interest.