An agent-based approach to multisensor coordination

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 648-662

  Hodge, Lovell ^a   Kamel, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Camera placement; Case based knowledge; Coordination; Intelligent agent; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERA LENSES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER VISION; INSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

CAMERA PLACEMENT; CASED BASED KNOWLEDGE; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; KNOWLEDGE QUERY MANIPULATION LANGUAGE; MULTISENSOR COORDINATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0344961671     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.817397     Document Type: Letter

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