Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:42:59 GMT Server: Apache-SSL/0.4.3b Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:55:05 GMT UMCP Computer Science: The PLUS Group

Parallel Understanding Systems Group

Welcome to the PLUS Group's WWW Homepage!

The PLUS group is an Artificial Intelligence research group in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. It is also part of the High Performance Systems Software Lab. The PLUS group lab is room 3270 of the A.V. Williams Building.

Research

Some Current Research Areas

o Parallel Knowledge Representation (The PARKA system)
o High Performance Case-based Planning
o Hierarchical Task Network Planning: Formalization, Analysis, and Implementation
o Real-Time A.I. Systems
o Autonomous Mobile Robots
o Intelligent Tutoring System for Arabic and Spanish
o Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Systems
o Knowledge Representation on the World-Wide Web (SHOE)

People

Faculty

Photo Dr. James A. Hendler, Director
o Dr. Lee Spector

Affiliated Faculty

o Dr. Bonnie Dorr
o Dr. Dana Nau
o Dr. Joel Saltz
o Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian

Postdocs

o Dr. Kilian Stoffel

Research Programmer

o David Rager, M.S.

Graduate Students

o William Andersen
o Robert Kohout
o Sean Luke
o Carlos Lopes
o Vikram Manikonda
o Oliver Seeliger
o Merwyn Taylor
o Reiko Tsuneto

PLUS Alumni

o Dr. Kutluhan Erol (1995)
o Dr. Matthew Evett (1994)
o Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati (1989)
o Dr. Brian Kettler (1995)
o Barrie Migdalof, M.S. (1994)
o Dr. David Musliner (Postdoc)
o Dr. Eduardo Ostertag (1992)
o David Rager, M.S. (1995)
o Dr. Kathryn Sanders (Postdoc)
o Dr. Lee Spector (1992)
o Dr. Anne Wilson (1993)

Software Available for Public Use

Software for FTP

o UM Nonlin Planning System (a Common Lisp version of Tate's Nonlin planner)
o UM Translog Planning Domain (a transport logistics planning domain for developing and benchmarking A.I. planning systems)
o Mini-programs from Inside Computer Understanding and Inside Case-based Reasoning by Schank and Riesbeck.

o The PLUS group WWW pages are maintained by Dave Rager and Oliver Seeliger.
Send comments, etc. to rager@cs.umd.edu.