Ok, that should be all the papers I have been a co-author on to date. Expect a few coming down the pipe: I am working on a journal version of the thesis. Robin and Kimon are working up some feedback -- I probably have one more review cycle before it is ready to submit. I will also be working up a dissertation proposal. I will post that once it is baked.
A preview: The thesis was focused on a distributed architecture for heterogeneous robots. It used Jini as the middleware layer, and was almost entirely written in Java. As such Jini service entries carried generic information about robot state. Or rather they were posted into the registrar to enable capability-based search for services. We were also able to hook KAoS from IHMC in to provide some software-agent services. But this was done mostly in an ad-hoc way. I want to extend this to use a more complete ontology for the domain and then define policies in KAoS that would affect task execution on the robots in the system through constraints, obligations and authorizations. So that is the general idea -- just need to figure out the angle of attack and how to place this relative to other work.



