Intelligent Agents in Sensor Networks and Sensor Web 2009

Wireless sensor networks are potentially the most important technology of this century. The advancement of Internet technology and abundance sensor deployment has enabled to gather real-time information from anywhere. Since the need of the information varies from user to user, querying and publishing relevant information from heterogeneous data sources across various spatio-temporal scales is a challenging task. This is one of the hindrances for macro scale sensing. Sensor Web is a concept that supports macroscale sensing with web-enabled heterogeneous sensors. The agent paradigm may play a key role to scale the localised wireless sensor network to the sensor web. However, there are some challenges that need to be addressed from both the wireless sensor networks and sensor web perspective to make it a reality. Researchers and practitioners have identified applications like environmental monitoring, health monitoring and urban scale pollution control as key applications for sensor web, we have yet to see the promise of interoperable applications to really make intelligent sensor web a reality.

 IASNW 2009 is the international workshop on advances in theory, systems, and applications of agent techniques in sensor networks to make sensor web a reality. It is a full day workshop  run in conjunction with the 2009 International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009) in Nagoya, Japan. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring together world-wide researchers from academia, industry and government agencies with an interest to apply agent technology in wireless sensor networks and sensor web.

Topics of the workshop

  The workshop is interdisciplinary in nature, and will address but is not limited to the following major topics:

• Use of intelligent agents in sensor webs
• Agent-based architecture for wireless sensor networks
• Interoperability issues using an agent paradigm
• Agent paradigm for managing sensor data in a sensor web
• Agent based context and situation awareness systems
• Agent-based middleware for sensor networks
• Agent based resource management and energy efficient design
• Agent framework for intelligent decision support system

Paper submission

 Authors are invited to submit papers that are original and unpublished in areas of agent technologies to enable sensor web.  The paper should be written in English and format should comply with PRIMA 2009 submission guidelines. The paper should be submitted electronically through EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iasnw2009). Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers and feedback will be provided for all the submitted papers. Accepted papers will be published in the post-proceedings of PRIMA09 workshops, studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) book series, Springer.

important dates

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2009

Acceptance notification: 16 October 2009

Camera ready papers: 2 November 2009

Early registration deadline: 16 November 2009

Registration Deadline: 1 December 2009

Workshop day: 13 December, 2009

Workshop program

Joint Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM) and Intelligent Agents in Sensor Networks and Sensor Web (IASNW)

December 13^th 2009

Building 2, Room: W, 2^nd floor

Nagoya Institute of Technology

9:00 Welcome

Session 1
9:30 Tomohisa Yamashita, Shunsuke Shunsuke and Itsuki Noda. Evaluation of Time Delay of Coping Behaviors with Evacuation Simulator
10:00 Mihnea Scafes and Costin Badica. Conceptual Framework for Design of Service Negotiation in Disaster Management Applications
10:30 Mohammad Goodarzi, Ashkan Radmand and Eslam Nazemi. An Optimized Solution for Multi-Agent Coordination Using Integrated GA-Fuzzy Approach in Rescue Simulation Environment
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Kei Sato and Tomoichi Takahashi. A Study of Map Data Influence on Disaster and Rescue Simulation’s Results
12:00 Ales Horak, Miroslav Prymek and Adam Rambousek. Multi-agent System for Blackout Prevention by means of Computer Simulations
12:30 Lunch
Session 2
14:00 Serge Stinckwich, Noury Bouraqadi, Van Tuan Le and Arnaud Doniec. Dynamic Role Assignment for Large-scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
14:30 Breelyn Kane, Prasanna Velagapudi and Paul Scerri. Asking for Help through Adjustable Autonomy in Robotic Search and Rescue
Session 3
15:00 Tokihiro Fukatsu, Masayuki Hirafuji and Takuji Kiura  Web-based Sensor Network with Flexible Management by an Agent System
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Masayuki Hirafuji Sensor Network Architecture Based on Web and Agent for Long-term Sustainable Observation in Open Fields
16:30 Quan Bai, Siddeswara Mayura Guru, Daniel Smith, Qing Liu, Andrew Terhorst A Multi-Agent view of the Sensor Web

17:00 Discussion: interaction between the two workshops, future

Workshop related events are available here

workshop organisation

Workshop Chairs

Andrew Terhorst, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, andrew.terhorst@csiro.au

Siddeswara Guru, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, siddeswara.guru@csiro.au

Program Committee

Anwar Vahed, CSIR, South Africa

Bruce Moulton, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Daniel Smith, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Holger Neuhaus, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Ingo Simonis, International Geospatial Services Institute

Malka Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia

Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia

Qing Liu, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Quan Bai, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Rick McMullen, University of Kansas, USA

Suhinthan Maheswararajah, University of Melbourne, Australia

Wei Peng, RMIT University, Australia

Yanfeng Shu, CSIRO, Australia 

Please contact the workshop chairs for further queries and information.