On the use of collaborative intelligence in an agent-based environmental monitoring and analysis system

The paper introduces the architecture of a multiagent system for environmental monitoring and analysis, and focuses on the use of collaborative intelligence between the environmental agents (the agents that monitor and analyze the evolution of specific environment pollutants concentrations in different locations) and meteorological agents (that provide information about all meteorological parameters that can influence the degree of environmental pollution: temperature, speed of wind, humidity etc). The collaboration between agents is facilitated by asynchronous messaging and a common ontology (that is shared by all agents, environmental and meteorological). Some experimental results obtained for different scenarios of the multi-agent system simulation are also discussed in this paper.