A multi-agent system for meteorological radar data management and decision support

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1264-1273

  Athanasiadis, Ioannis N ^a   Milis, Marios ^b   Mitkas, Pericles A ^c   Michaelides, Silas C ^d  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^b SIGNALGENERIX LTD   (Cyprus)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Assessment and reporting; Distributed decision support; Doppler radar data monitoring; Environmental management and decision support systems; Meteorology software applications

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; AGENT REASONING; AGENT SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING; CONTINUOUS PROCESSING; CUSTOMIZABLE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISTRIBUTED DECISION SUPPORT; DOPPLER RADAR DATA MONITORING; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; LARGE PARTS; LOGICAL RULES; RADAR DATA; REAL WORLD DATA; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RADAR; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGY; RADAR IMAGERY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 67651030057     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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