Norman Carver

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1990

Computer Science Department

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

mailcode 4511

Carbondale, IL 62901

(618) 453-6048 (office)

(618) 453-6044 (fax)
carver@cs.siu.edu
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Current Courses (Spring 2008)

• CS 306, Linux/UNIX Programming
• CS 406, Linux System Administration

General Research Interests

• multi-agent systems and cooperative distributed problem solving;
• distributed sensor interpretation and situation assessment;
• architectures for knowledge-intensive control of AI systems
  (reactive and opportunistic planners, and blackboard-based systems);
• reasoning under uncertainty and abductive inference.

Current Research Projects

Distributed Interpretation in a Communication-Limited Environment
(funded by NSF Digital Society & Technologies program, 2005-2008)

A Simulation-Based Framework for Studying CDPS-Based Distributed Sensor Interpretation and Distributed Diagnosis

Other Research

Formalizing Distributed Search in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving Systems
(funded by NSF, ended 2004)

A Generic Agent Architecture for Real-Time Distributed Situation Assessment

Formal Analysis of the FA/C Distributed Problem-Solving Paradigm

The DRESUN Testbed for Distributed Situation Assessment

The RESUN Sensor Interpretation Framework

Blackboard Systems and Knowledge-Intensive Control

Publications

Recent Publications and Manuscripts

More Complete Publications List

Last updated August 13, 2005.