Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Behavior Assignment in Sensor Networks

The realm of applications for sensor networks is diverse including military, commercial and environmental monitoring. The behavior of these distributed systems of sensors is highly application-specific. The behavior of the sensing system must be tailored in order to meet the demands of the given application. Prioritizing such system behavior for a given application should greatly improve the performance of achieving the desired task. In this paper, we demonstrate the concept of multi-criteria decision making in a system-of-systems application (mobile robotic system and system of sensors) and how the decision making problem can be generalized to adapt the operational behavior of large-scale autonomous system of sensors.