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Hierarchical Collective Agent Network (Hcan) For Efficient 3 Fusion And Management Of Multiple Networked Sensors, Qiuming Zhu, Stuart L. Aldridge, Tomas N. Resha

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Agent-based software systems and applications are constructed by integrating diverse sets of components that are intelligent, heterogeneous, distributed, and concurrent. This paper describes a multi-agent system to assure the operation efficiency and reliability in data fusion and management of a set of networked distributive sensors (NDS). We discuss the general concept and architecture of a Hierarchical Collective Agent Network (HCAN) and its functional components for learning and adaptive control of the NDS. Sophistication of a HCAN control environment and an anatomy of the agent modules for enabling intelligent data fusion and management are presented. An exemplar HCAN is configured to …