Mobile agents in adaptive hierarchical Bayesian networks for global awareness

Author

Ross, Kenneth N. ; Chaney, Ronald D. ; Cybenko, George V. ; Burroughs, Daniel J. ; Willsky, Alan S.

Author_Institution

Alphatech Inc., Burlington, MA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

11-14 Oct 1998

Firstpage

2207

Abstract

In order to be efficient and robust, distributed computing applications must accommodate new data sources and alter their computational structure automatically. We demonstrate the utility of mobile agents for addressing such challenges in a distributed, real-time application. We describe our implementation of a distributed information fusion system based on Bayesian networks using the D´Agent mobile agent system. The Bayesian networks infer identity for clusters of vehicles using information from distributed sensors and databases

Keywords

belief networks; distributed databases; distributed sensors; inference mechanisms; military computing; real-time systems; software agents; D´Agent system; adaptive hierarchical Bayesian networks; battlespace situation awareness; computational structure; data sources; distributed computing applications; distributed databases; distributed information fusion system; distributed real-time application; distributed sensors; global awareness; inference; mobile agents; vehicles; Adaptive systems; Bayesian methods; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Information processing; Intelligent networks; Military computing; Mobile agents; Robustness; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4778-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1998.724983

Filename

724983