Multiagent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks convergence for an intelligent waterway ambient (original) (raw)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT, 2008
Lately Maritime research areas have moved their interests from traditional ship studies and traffic systems to new areas that confer a more general character to them as, for example, environmental monitoring. BOYAS project is proposed including these new perspectives as well as more classical ones. Trying to get this integral character for the waterway ambient and its activities management, the confluence between two recent research areas is studied. The convergence of Multiagent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks constitutes a good framework and scenario in which this new research activities may be studied and develop.
A multiagent architecture for an underground river network of intelligent sensors
2002
Abstract–This paper deals with an application of multiagent systems to sensor network management. This wireless communication network will be applied to monitor an underground hydrographic network. We first present the ENVSYS project: its origin and its issue. We then recall the concepts of agent and multiagent systems. We sketch a multiagent system's architecture according to the AEIO method. This multiagent system consists of hybrid agents. We also introduce the ASTRO agent model.
A MultiAgent System for Monitoring Boats in Marine Reserves
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010
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Advanced Approach of Multiagent Based Buoy Communication
The Scientific World Journal, 2015
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A survey on sensor networks from a multiagent perspective
2011
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A Novel Paradigm for Underwater Monitoring Using Mobile Sensor Networks
Sensors
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Multi-Agent-Based Acoustic Sensor Node Deployment in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks
Journal of Information Technology Research, 2020
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2009
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Measurement, 2010
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An Agent-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Water Quality Data Collection
2012
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ANN-Based Control of a Multiboat Group for the Deployment of an Underwater Sensor Network
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2014
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Atlantis highlights in engineering, 2023
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