Ebook: Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective

Distributed Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind to examine solutions to this problem using ideas taken from the field of multiagent systems. The field of multiagent systems has itself seen an exponential growth in the past decade, and has developed a variety of techniques for distributed resource allocation.
Distributed Sensor Networks contains contributions from leading, international researchers describing a variety of approaches to this problem based on examples of implemented systems taken from a common distributed sensor network application; each approach is motivated, demonstrated and tested by way of a common challenge problem. The book focuses on both practical systems and their theoretical analysis, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the common sensor network challenge problem; the second part explains the different technical approaches to the common challenge problem; and the third part provides results on the formal analysis of a number of approaches taken to address the challenge problem.

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Distributed Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind to examine solutions to this problem using ideas taken from the field of multiagent systems. The field of multiagent systems has itself seen an exponential growth in the past decade, and has developed a variety of techniques for distributed resource allocation.
Distributed Sensor Networks contains contributions from leading, international researchers describing a variety of approaches to this problem based on examples of implemented systems taken from a common distributed sensor network application; each approach is motivated, demonstrated and tested by way of a common challenge problem. The book focuses on both practical systems and their theoretical analysis, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the common sensor network challenge problem; the second part explains the different technical approaches to the common challenge problem; and the third part provides results on the formal analysis of a number of approaches taken to address the challenge problem.

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Distributed Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind to examine solutions to this problem using ideas taken from the field of multiagent systems. The field of multiagent systems has itself seen an exponential growth in the past decade, and has developed a variety of techniques for distributed resource allocation.
Distributed Sensor Networks contains contributions from leading, international researchers describing a variety of approaches to this problem based on examples of implemented systems taken from a common distributed sensor network application; each approach is motivated, demonstrated and tested by way of a common challenge problem. The book focuses on both practical systems and their theoretical analysis, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the common sensor network challenge problem; the second part explains the different technical approaches to the common challenge problem; and the third part provides results on the formal analysis of a number of approaches taken to address the challenge problem.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Distributed Sensor Networks: Introduction to a Multiagent Perspective....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Radsim Simulator....Pages 11-20
Challenge Problem Testbed....Pages 21-31
Visualization and Debugging Tools....Pages 33-42
Target Tracking with Bayesian Estimation....Pages 43-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Dynamic Resource-bounded Negotiation in Non-additive Domains....Pages 61-107
A Satisficing, Negotiated, and Learning Coalition Formation Architecture....Pages 109-138
Using Autonomy, Organizational Design and Negotiation in a Distributed Sensor Network....Pages 139-183
Scaling-Up Distributed Sensor Networks: Cooperative Large-Scale Mobile-Agent Organizations....Pages 185-217
Distributed Resource Allocation....Pages 219-256
Distributed Coordination through Anarchic Optimization....Pages 257-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Communication and Computation in Distributed CSP Algorithms....Pages 299-318
A Comparative Study of Distributed Constraint Algorithms....Pages 319-338
Analysis of Negotiation Protocols by Distributed Search....Pages 339-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-367

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Distributed Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind to examine solutions to this problem using ideas taken from the field of multiagent systems. The field of multiagent systems has itself seen an exponential growth in the past decade, and has developed a variety of techniques for distributed resource allocation.
Distributed Sensor Networks contains contributions from leading, international researchers describing a variety of approaches to this problem based on examples of implemented systems taken from a common distributed sensor network application; each approach is motivated, demonstrated and tested by way of a common challenge problem. The book focuses on both practical systems and their theoretical analysis, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the common sensor network challenge problem; the second part explains the different technical approaches to the common challenge problem; and the third part provides results on the formal analysis of a number of approaches taken to address the challenge problem.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Distributed Sensor Networks: Introduction to a Multiagent Perspective....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Radsim Simulator....Pages 11-20
Challenge Problem Testbed....Pages 21-31
Visualization and Debugging Tools....Pages 33-42
Target Tracking with Bayesian Estimation....Pages 43-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Dynamic Resource-bounded Negotiation in Non-additive Domains....Pages 61-107
A Satisficing, Negotiated, and Learning Coalition Formation Architecture....Pages 109-138
Using Autonomy, Organizational Design and Negotiation in a Distributed Sensor Network....Pages 139-183
Scaling-Up Distributed Sensor Networks: Cooperative Large-Scale Mobile-Agent Organizations....Pages 185-217
Distributed Resource Allocation....Pages 219-256
Distributed Coordination through Anarchic Optimization....Pages 257-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Communication and Computation in Distributed CSP Algorithms....Pages 299-318
A Comparative Study of Distributed Constraint Algorithms....Pages 319-338
Analysis of Negotiation Protocols by Distributed Search....Pages 339-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-367
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