FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
UNCERTAINTY REASONING AND MULTI-AGENT
SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR NETWORKS
(URMASSN'11)
Sensor networks are increasingly seen as a solution to the problem of
performing wide-area monitoring and surveillance within urban,
environmental, security and defensive scenarios. Sensors distributed
over a wide area, communicate through the network to ensure monitoring
and control of the area covered. Multiple sensors observe the
environment and then exchange their probability estimates (for the
occurrence of an event) with each other. Sensors are able to fuse the
evidence in such received messages, and compute the probability of
occurrence of the relevant event. Negotiation processes enable
agreement on the nature of the event.
On the one hand, the distributed nature of these networks, and the
increasing expectation of autonomous behaviour from the sensors leads
naturally to a multi-agent approach to analysis, design and
development of sensor networks. Further technical challenges include
decentralised control, co-ordination, resource allocation, which are
mainstream research within the agent community. On the other hand,
the nature of sensor networks leads to possible failures of
interactions and noisy communication, which calls for uncertainty
reasoning and data and knowledge fusion approaches to information
exchange and decision making in sensor networks. Furthermore, the
increasing availability of sensor network data, and the need to make
use of it in real-time for informed decision making, requires the
development of intelligent agents that can autonomously acquire
knowledge from these networks, and perform information processing
tasks such as fusion, inference and prediction.
This workshop aims to explore the synergy of agent technologies,
data and knowledge fusion and uncertainty reasoning for design and
implementation of sensor networks and also for the processing of
sensor network data and decision support.
Program
| 9:00 | Registration and welcome |
| 9:30 | Session 1:
- Managing Multiple Hypotheses with Agents to Handle Incomplete and Uncertain Data -
Benoit Vettier, Laure Amate, Catherine Garbay, Julie Fontecave-Jallon and Pierre Baconnier, [paper]
- Reasoning with Information Reported by Imperfect agents - Laurence Cholvy and Jocelyn Chauvet-Paz, [paper]
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| 10:30 | Coffe Break |
| 11:00 | Session 2:
- Understanding what is going on, or how to make sense of situations -
Philippe Chassy, Didier Dubois and Henri Prade, [paper]
- Representation of interaction among criteria and bipolarity in multi-criteria decision making -
Christophe Labreuche, [paper]
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| 12:00 | Demos at ECIT |
| 12:30 | Lunch and visit to Titanic docks (Titanic: 13:30-14:00) |
| 14:15 | Invited talk: Nick Jennings [abstract] |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Session 3:
- Multi-Agent Architecture for Event Generation Based on Event Reasoning -
Neil Montgomery, Weiru Liu, Virginia Dignum and Paul Miller, [paper]
- Virtual Visual Sensors and Their Application in Structural Health Monitoring -
Yi-Zhe Song, Chris Bowen, Alicia Kim, Aydin Nassehi, Julian Padget and Nick Gathercole, [paper]
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| 17:00 | Closing discussion (end 17:30) |
Topics of interest include:
- Agent-based architectures for sensor networks
- Agent-based simulation of sensor networks
- Organization structures for sensor networks
- Sensor network management (including game theory, negotiation and market approaches).
- Reasoning with uncertainty and failure in sensor networks
- Reliable communication in sensor networks
- Coordination and planning
- Adaptive and learning agents for sensor networks
- Emergent behaviour
- Data and knowledge fusion and aggregation within sensor networks
- Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information
- Security and trust in sensor networks
- Applications and real-world deployments of sensor networks
- Reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance
Invited Speaker
Nick Jennings, Southampton University: Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications
[abstract]
Organisers
Virginia Dignum, TU Delft
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University
Frances Brazier, TU Delft
Paul Miller, Queen University Belfast
Han la Poutré, Utrecht University and CWI
Martijn Warnier, TU Delft
Programme Committee
Salem Benferhat (Lens, France)
Laurence Cholvy (Onera, France)
Jurriaan van Diggelen (TNO, NL)
Zhi Jin (Institute of Mathematics, Beijng, China
Jérôme Lang (IRIT, France)
Churn-Jung Liau (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Weiru Liu (Queen University Belfast, UK)
José Manuel Molina López (Univ. Carlos III, Spain)
Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Henri Prade (IRIT, France)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez (IIIA, CSIC, Spain)
Rainer Unland (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
(not yet complete)
Important dates
Submission deadline: 29 April 2011
Notifications: 13 May 2011
Camera Ready: 27 May 2011
Workshop: 28 June 2011
Paper preparation and submission
Papers must not exceed 12 pages in length in the standard LNCS/LNAI conference proceedings format and must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair submission system.
Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer review on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Post publication
special issue in the Journal of Multi Agent and Grid Systems (MAGS, IOS Press)
Location
The workshop is hosted at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)
Registration Info
Information about registration can be found here
Excursion
During the lunch break of the workshop there will be an excursion to the Titanic's Dock
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