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March 2008 Calendar

CS Masters' Thesis Defense

Title: Madstar: A Re-Implementation of Madcat Using the Starcat Framework
Speaker: Joel Dennis Kaufman
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: GMCS 306
Thesis advisor: Dr Joseph Lewis

Abstract:
Madstar is an effort to move Madcat to the Starcat Framework -- whose design originates partially from Mitchell's Copycat. Madcat was an extension of Copycat to the robot navigation and mapping domain. Starcat is an effort to capture in one consistent framework all the other applications that followed the Copycat architecture -- whose components include a Slipnet, Workspace, and Coderack.

A chronological study of some Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts are discussed along with the shortcomings of each of these concepts. This background is intended to show where the concept for the Copycat architecture came from. Beyond this, there is a brief discussion of other applications with similar architecture including Madcat. This display of multiple applications with similar architecture is the driving force for Starcat which already has a set of published applications. Some of these published applications are re-implementations of their originals.

The conclusion of this thesis will show that porting Madstar to the Starcat Framework is feasible. There are three levels of effort that could happen beyond this work to make the Madstar application even better.
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