Multi-agent system information fusion for environment monitoring

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1774-1779

  Abielmona, Rami ^a   Petriu, Emil M ^a   Whalen, Thorn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information and sensor fusion; Multi agent systems; Sensor entropy

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; SENSOR ENTROPY;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 36048998774     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2006.235365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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