Maurice Pagnucco

Room 412D, Building K17
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
NSW, 2052, AUSTRALIA

Telephone: +61 2 9385 6925
Facsimile: +61 2 9385 5995/4936
Email: morri@cse.unsw.edu.au
WWW: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~morri/

I am currently an associate professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales.

Research Interests

My Ph.D. dissertation is entitled The Role of Abductive Reasoning within the Process of Belief Revision (click on this link to view the abstract and, if you wish, download a gzip'ed postscript version). It deals mainly with the belief revision framework developed by Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson (AGM) and uses this theory to investigate various abductive belief revision operators. My broader research interests involve general approaches to belief revision and to reasoning about actions, including computational aspects, and approaches to abduction/explanation and their applications. I am also interested in the areas of theory revision and scientific theory formation.

My main research interests lie in:

• Cognitive Robotics
• Belief Change
• Reasoning About Actions

Publications

You may also like to try Legolog. This is a Prolog-based system developed to allow experimentation with and demonstration of Cognitive Robotics research on the LEGO® MINDSTORMS^TM Robotics Invention System (RIS)^TM (in particular Golog).

Teaching

• Current teaching:
  • COMP1921: Data Structures and Algorithms (Session 2)
  • COMP4411: Experimental Robotics (Sessions 1 & 2)
  • COMP4418: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Session 2)
  • Australian Logic Summer School
• Past teaching:
  • COMP1021: Computing 1B
  • COMP2041: Software Construction
  • COMP9414: Artificial Intelligence
  • ENGG1811: Computing for Engineers
  • GENE8000: Spreadsheet and Database Applications

Honours Projects

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