These are only some of the papers that the members of MaineSAIL have produced in the past few years. Others may be added later. Included are papers and technical reports available on-line here as well as references to publications that are not.
Foundations of Computer Science (working title) (Elise H. Turner, R.M. Turner). Textbook for the rigorous, non-programming introductory course for majors (COS 140) developed at the University of Maine.
Appropriate commitment planning for AUV control (E. Albert, E.H. Turner, and R.M. Turner). To appear in Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST'07), Durham, NH, Summer 2007.
Retaining majors through the introductory sequence (E.H. Turner, E.Albert, R.M. Turner, and L. Latour). In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'07), Covington, KY, March, 2007.
Appropriate commitment planning (Erik Albert, E. Turner, and R. Turner). Computer Science Technical Report, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, 2006.
Explicit representation and retrieval of contextual knowledge for real-world agents (R.M. Turner). In Modeling and Retrieval of Context: Papers from the AAAI Workshop (Third International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieving Context (MRC2006)), Technical Report WS-06-12, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI Press), Menlo Park, CA, July 16-17, 2006.
Placing newly-arising goals in the proper context (Elise H. Turner, Roy M. Turner, and Erik Albert). In workshop notes for the Cooperative Systems and Context workshop of the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'05), Paris, France, July 5, 2005.
Exploiting contextual knowledge in multiagent systems (R.M. Turner and E.H. Turner). Computer Science Technical Report 2005-01, University of Maine, October, 2005.
Proceedings of the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'05), Paris, France (A. Dey, B .Kokinov, D. Leake, and R. Turner (eds.)). Published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3554, A. Dey, B. Kokinov, D. Leake, and R. Turner (eds.), Springer, New York, 2005.
Teaching entering students to think like computer scientists (E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'05), February 24-27, 2005, Saint Louis, MO.
Selecting organizational structures for advanced multi-AUV systems (R. Turner and E.Turner). In the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST'05), Durham, NH, August, 2005.
A Rigorous Introduction to Computer Science without Programming: Three Women's Perspectives (Elise H. Turner, Cathy Emerton, Rebecca Ray, and Christina Logan). Technical Report No. UMCS-TR-2004-2, Computer Science Department, University of Maine.
Self-organization and reorganization of multi-AUV systems: CoDA project overview (R.M. Turner and E.H. Turner). In workshop notes for IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles 2004 (AUV'04): A Workshop on Multiple AUV Operations, held in Sebasco Estates, Maine, June 17-18, 2004.
Proceedings of the Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'03), Stanford, CA (P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R. Turner, and F. Giunchiglia (eds.)). Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2680: Modeling and Using Context. P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R. Turner, and F. Giunchiglia (eds.), Springer, New York, 2003.
Situation assessment for autonomous underwater vehicles using a priori contextual knowledge (Robert Arritt and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), Durham, NH, 2003.
Interfacing the CoDA and CADCON simulators: A multi-fidelity simulation testbed for autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (Erik Albert, Jonathan Bilodeau, and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), Durham, NH, 2003.
Context-specific weights for a neural network (Robert Arritt and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'03), pp. 29-39, Stanford, CA. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2680: Modeling and Using Context, P. Blackburn, C. Ghidini, R. Turner, and F. Giunchiglia (eds.), Springer, New York, 2003.)
A two-level, protocol-based approach to controlling autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (R.M. Turner and E.H. Turner). IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, special issue on autonomous ocean sampling networks, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 654-666, October, 2001.
Using explicit, a priori contextual knowledge in an intelligent Web search agent (R.M. Turner, E.H. Turner, T.A. Wagner, T.J. Wheeler, and N.E. Ogle). In Proceedings of the Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'01), pp. 343-352, Dundee, Scotland, July, 2001. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2116: Modeling and Using Context, V. Akman, P. Bouquet, R. Thomason, and R.A. Young (eds.), Springer, New York, 2001.)
Representing the graphics context to support understanding plural anaphora in multi-modal interfaces (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'01), pp. 330-342, Dundee, Scotland, July, 2001. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2116: Modeling and Using Context, V. Akman, P. Bouquet, R. Thomason, and R.A. Young (eds.), Springer, New York, 2001.)
Determining the usefulness of information from its use during problem solving (Elise H. Turner and John Phelps). In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), pp. 207-208.
Determining the Usefulness of Information from Its Use During Problem Solving (Elise H. Turner and John Phelps). Technical Report No. 99-02, Computer Science Department, University of Maine.
Selecting task decompositions for constrained heuristic search (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). In the workshop notes for the AAAI 2000 Workshop on Constraints and Planning, Austin, TX.
Life history of a hydroid/nudibranch association: A discrete-event simulation (C.M. Chester, R.M. Turner, M.D. Carle, and L.G. Harris). hiThe Veliger, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 338-348, 2000.
Simulating an autonomous oceanographic sampling network: A multi-fidelity approach to simulating systems of systems (R.M. Turner and E.H. Turner). In Proceedings of the Conference of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OCEANS'2000), Providence, RI, September, 2000.
The need for context in multi-modal interfaces (E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner, C. Grunden, J. Mailman, M. Neale, and J.Phelps). In Workshop Notes for the 1999 AAAI Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications P. Brézillon and R.M. Turner (eds.), AAAI Technical Report WS-99-14, AAAI Press (Menlo Park, CA), Orlando, FL, July, 1999.
Context-mediated behavior: An approach to explicitly representing contexts and contextual knowledge for AI applications (R.M. Turner). In Workshop Notes for the 1999 AAAI Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications P. Brézillon and R.M. Turner (eds.), AAAI Technical Report WS-99-14, AAAI Press (Menlo Park, CA), Orlando, FL, July, 1999.
A constraint-based approach to assigning system components to tasks (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). hiInternational Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 10, no. 2/3, pp. 155-172, 1999.
Workshop Notes of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Reasoning in Context for AI Applications (W16) (P. Brézillon, R.M. Turner, J.-Ch. Pomerol, and E.H. Turner (eds.)). Technical Report WS-99-14, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.
Interfacing the Orca AUV controller to the NPS UVW and to a land robot (R.M. Turner and J.Mailman). In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), Durham, NH, August, 1999.
Aspects of context for understanding multi-modal communication (E.H. Turner, R.M. Turner, J. Phelps, C. Grunden, M. Neale, and J. Mailman). In Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CONTEXT'99), Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 1999. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1688: Modeling and Using Context, P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, P. Brézillon, M. Benerecetti, F. Castellani (eds.), Springer, New York, 1999.)
A unified long-term memory system (J.H. Lawton, R.M. Turner, and E.H. Turner). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'99), Monastery Seeon, Munich, Germany, July, 1999.
A model of explicit context representation and use for intelligent agents (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CONTEXT'99), Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 1999. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1688: Modeling and Using Context, P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, P. Brézillon, M. Benerecetti, F. Castellani (eds.), Springer, New York, 1999.)
Understanding pronominal references to quantified expressions (Elise H. Turner and Collette M. Matthias). Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 4(4), pp. 345-361.
Selecting task decompositions for constrained heuristic search (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). Technical Report No. 98-01, Computer Science Department, University of Maine, September, 1998.
Context-mediated behavior for intelligent agents (R.M. Turner). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, special issue on ``Using context in applications'', volume 48, number 3, March, 1998, pp. 307-330.
Organization and reorganization of autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (R.M. Turner and E.H. Turner). In Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-98), Leuven, Belgium, May, 1998, pp. 2060-2067.
Context-mediated behavior (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA-98-AIE), Benicàssim, Spain, June, 1998.). Vol. I, pp. 538-547. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1415: Methodology and Tools in Knowledge-Based Systems, J. Mira, A.P. del Pobil, and M. Ali (eds.), Springer, New York, 1998.)
A constraint-based approach to assigning system components to tasks (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA-98-AIE), Benicàssim, Spain, June, 1998.). Vol. I, pp. 312-320. (Proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1415: Methodology and Tools in Knowledge-Based Systems, J. Mira, A.P. del Pobil, and M. Ali (eds.), Springer, New York, 1998.)
Task assignment in AOSNs: A constraint-based approach ( Elise H. Turner). Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST-97), pp. 353-361
Integrating partial-order planning into the Orca schema-based mission controller (P. Ramakrishnan and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), September, 1997, pp. 416-425.
Determining the context-dependent meaning of fuzzy subsets (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the First International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro, February 4-6, 1997, pp. 233-242.
Cooperative behavior in an autonomous oceanographic sampling network: MAUV Project update (S.G. Chappell, R.M. Turner, E.H. Turner, and C.M. Grunden). In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), September, 1997, pp. 375-384.
Organization and reorganization of autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (R.M. Turner, E.H. Turner, and D.R. Blidberg). In Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology (AUV'96), Monterey, CA, June, 1996, pp. 407-413.
A hierarchy for AUV communication ( Elise H. Turner). Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Unmanned, Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST-95), pp. 386-394
Conceptual Communication for Multi-vehicle Systems ( Elise H. Turner and Steven G. Chappell). Technical Report No. 95-08, Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire.
Using contextual knowledge in autonomous real-world systems (R.M. Turner). In Working Notes of the 1995 IJCAI Workshop on Modelling Context in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Montreal, August, 1995.
Orca: Intelligent adaptive reasoning for autonomous underwater vehicle control (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS-95) at the FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference, Melbourne, Florida, April, 1995, pp. 52-62.
Intelligent control of autonomous underwater vehicles: The Orca project (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, October, 1995.
Context-sensitive, adaptive reasoning for intelligent AUV control: Orca project update (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, Durham, NH, September, 1995, pp. 426-435.
Exploiting problem solving to select information to include in dialogues between cooperating agents (Elise H. Turner). The Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 882-886.
Responding to unanticipated goals when planning travel for autonomous underwater vehicles (Elise H. Turner and Terri L. Briggs). Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (CAIA-94), pp. 493-494
COLA: A language to support communication between multiple cooperating vehicles ( Elise H. Turner, Steven G. Chappell, Scott A. Valcourt and Martin J. Dempsey). Proceedings of the Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology (AUV-94), pp. 309-316
Selecting information to communicate ( Elise H. Turner). Working notes (and AAAI technical report) for the AAAI Workshop on Planning for Interagent Communication, pp. 47-52
Rating the Usefulness of Information to Communicate ( H. Turner and Collette M. Matthias). Technical Report No. 94-22, Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire.
Handling unanticipated events during collaboration (R.M. Turner and P.S. Eaton). In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Atlanta, GA, 1994, pp. 887-892.
Adaptive Reasoning for Real-World Problems: A Schema-Based Approach (R.M. Turner). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ, 1994.
Rating the usefulness of information to communicate (E.H. Turner and C.M. Matthias). Technical Report 94-22, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Controlling long-range, intelligent autonomous underwater vehicles for ocean science research (R.M. Turner). In Workshop Notes of the 1994 AAAI Workshop on AI Technologies for Environmental Applications, Seattle, Washington, August, 1994, pp. 24-30.
Handling unanticipated events in single and multiple AUV systems (R.M. Turner, P.S. Eaton, and M.J. Dempsey). hil'Onde Electrique, (Revue de la Société des Electriciens et des Electroniciens), vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 36-42, September/October, 1994.
Handling unanticipated events in single and multiple AUV systems (R.M. Turner, P.S. Eaton, and M.J. Dempsey). In Proceedings of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Conference (OCEANS '94 OSATES), pp. II-125-130, Brest, France, 1994. (Also invited for publication in the journal l'Onde Electrique.)
Exploiting predictions to organize goals in real-world domains (Elise H. Turner). AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Foundations of Automatic Planning: The Classical Approach and Beyond, pp. 142-145
Responding to Unanticipated Goals when Planning Travel for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Elise H. Turner and Terri L. Briggs). Technical Report No. 93-16, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire.
The tragedy of the commons and distributed AI systems (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Hidden Valley, PA, May, 1993, pp. 379-390. Also available as Technical* Report 93-01, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824.
Context-sensitive reasoning for autonomous agents and cooperative distributed problem solving (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the 1993 IJCAI Workshop on Using Knowledge in Its Context, Chambéry, France, August, 1993.
Generic behaviors: An approach to modularity in intelligent systems control (R.M. Turner, D. R. Blidberg, S. G. Chappell, and J. C. Jalbert). In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, 1993, pp. 106-117.
Organizing dialogue from an incoherent stream of goals (Elise H. Turner). Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-92), pp. 338-344
A view of diagnostic reasoning as a memory-directed task (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, July, 1992.
Mission planning (D.R. Blidberg and R.M. Turner). In Underwater Robotic Vehicles, J. Yuh (ed.), Chapter 5, TSI Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1995, pp. 129-144.
MEDIC (R.M. Turner). In Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, second edition, S.C. Shapiro (ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992.
An approach to reference in communication between cooperating autonomous systems (Elise H. Turner, Brent W. Benson and Kathleen P. Herold). Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 1435-1440.
A language for cooperating AUVs (Elise H. Turner and Cathy L. Steffen). Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Unmanned, Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST-91), pp. 489-498
Discourse structure as predictions to organize discourse (Elise H. Turner). AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Discourse in Natural Language Understanding and Generation, pp. 120-121
An overview of autonomous underwater vehicle technology for ocean scientists (staff of UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory). MSEL Report No. 91-10, September, 1991, Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, Durham, NH. (Now available from the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute, Lee, NH.)
Orca: An adaptive, context-sensitive reasoner for controlling AUVs (R.M. Turner and R. A. Stevenson). In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Underwater Submersible Technology (AUV '91), Durham, New Hampshire, September, 1991, pp. 423-432.
Multiple autonomous vehicle imaging system (MAVIS) (R.M. Turner, J.S. Fox, E.H. Turner, and D.R. Blidberg). In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Underwater Submersible Technology (AUV '91), Durham, New Hampshire, September, 1991, pp. 526-536.
A schema-based approach to cooperative problem solving with autonomous underwater vehicles (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Conference (OCEANS '91), Honolulu, October, 1991, pp. 167-1074.
A schema-based approach to cooperative behavior (E.H. Turner and R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, August, 1991, pp. 928-932.
Planning Conversation: A MOP-based Approach (Elise H. Turner). Technical Report No. 90-67, Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire.
Integrating Intention and Convention to Organize Problem Solving Dialogues (Elise H. Turner). Technical Report No. GIT-ICS-90/02, School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology.
The EAVE AUV program at the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (D.R. Blidberg, S. Chappell, J. Jalbert, R.M. Turner, G. Sedor, and P. Eaton). In Proceedings of the IARP First Workshop on Mobile Robots for Subsea Environments, Monterey, CA, Oct. 23-26, 1990.
Systems/subsystems investigation for a multi-sensor autonomous underwater vehicle search system (Staff of UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory). MSEL Technical Report #90-01, Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, 1990. (Also published as Navy EOD Technical Center Technical Report TR-301, and now available from the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute, Lee, NH.)
Autonomous control logic proposal review and recommendations (R.M. Turner and D.R. Blidberg). MSEL Technical Report #90-04, Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, 1990. (Now available from the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute, Lee, NH.)
An investigation of the impact of communication strategies on the cooperative behavior of multiple, cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles: Phase I final report (D.R. Blidberg and R.M. Turner). MSEL Technical Report #90-08, Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, 1990. (Now available from the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute, Lee, NH.)
A mechanism for context-sensitive reasoning (R.M. Turner). Technical Report No. 90-64, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 03824, 1990.
Using conversation MOPs in natural language interfaces (Elise H. Turner and Richard E. Cullingford). Discourse Processes, 12, pp. 63-90
Making conversation flexible (Elise H. Turner and Richard E. Cullingford). Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 932-939.
Using dynamic memory to interpret indirect speech acts (Elise H. Turner). Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Case-based Reasoning, pp. 338-340
When reactive planning is not enough: Using contextual schemas to react appropriately to environmental change (R.M. Turner). In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1989, pp. 940-947.