Third International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN-09)

Third International Workshop on

Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN-09)

A workshop of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-09)

12th May, Budapest, Hungary

Sensor networks are increasingly seen as a solution to the problem of performing wide-area monitoring and surveillance within environmental, security and military scenarios. Such networks consist of multiple sensors, deployed over a wide area, connected through a communication network (wired or otherwise). To ensure minimal human intervention the sensors within these networks should be able to self-organise, autonomously manage their own resources, and co-ordinate their behaviour to achieve system wide goals. The distributed nature of these networks, and the autonomous behaviour expected of them, naturally lend themselves to a multi-agent methodology, and many of the technical challenges posed by these systems (e.g. decentralised control, co-ordination, resource allocation) form the basis of main- stream research within the agent community. However, such systems pose many additional challenges, not least how to manage limited computation and energy resources, constrained communication, and unreliable or fault prone network components within a dynamic and uncertain environment.

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 data from these networks, and perform information processing tasks such as fusion, inference and prediction.

Thus, the goals of this workshop are to explore the use of agent technologies, both within the networks themselves (where agents represent the actual sensors), and also for the collection and processing of sensor network data. As such, topics of interest include:

❖Agent based management of sensor networks
❖Novel paradigms for sensor network management (e.g. game theoretic and market-oriented programming approaches).
❖Co-ordination and planning
❖Adaptive and learning agents for sensor networks
❖Energy and resource aware sensor networks
❖Emergent behaviour
❖Computational issues
❖Data 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
❖Agent-based architectures for sensor networks
❖Agent-based simulation of sensor networks
❖Reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance

Publication

The Computer Journal --- the journal of the British Computer Society --- are organising a special issue on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks. The best papers from the workshop will be selected to appear in this issue.

A full list of accepted papers can be found and downloaded on the programme and proceedings page.

Registration

Participants must register for the workshop by completing the registration process for the main AAMAS conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.

Organising Committee

Dr. W. T. Luke Teacy (University of Southampton, UK)

Dr. Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)

Dr. Daniel Corkhill (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Dr. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Prof. Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)

Programme Committee

Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)

Dr. Dimitris K. Tasoulis (Imperial College London, UK)

Prof. Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Dr. Steve Reece (University of Oxford, UK)

Prof. Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)