@inproceedings{jiang:tactical,
    author = {Guofei Jiang and Wayne Chung and George Cybenko},
    title = {Semantic Agent Technologies for Tactical Sensor Networks},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Unattended Ground Sensor
Technologies and Applications~V},
    editor = {Edward~M. Carapezza},
    year = {2003},
    month = {September},
    volume = {5090},
    pages = {311--320},
    publisher = {SPIE},
    copyright = {SPIE},
    address = {Orlando, FL},
    group = {cmc,agents,coabs},
    url = {http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/jiang:tactical.pdf},
    abstract = {Recent advances in wireless communication and microelectronics
have enabled the development of low-cost sensor devices leading to interest
in large-scale sensor networks for military applications. Sensor networks
consist of large numbers of networked sensors that can be dynamically
deployed and used for tactical situational awareness. One critical challenge
is how to dynamically integrate these sensor networks with information fusion
processes to support real-time sensing, exploitation and decision-making in a
rich tactical environment. In this paper, we describe our work on an
extensible prototype to address the challenge. The prototype and its
constituent technologies provide a proof-of-concept that demonstrates several
fundamental new approaches for implementing next generation battlefield
information systems. Many cutting-edge technologies are used to implement
this system, including semantic web, web services, peer-to-peer network and
content-based routing. This prototype system is able to dynamically integrate
various distributed sensors and multi-level information fusion services into
new applications and run them across a distributed network to support
different mission goals. Agent technology plays a role in two fundamental
ways: resources are described, located and tasked using semantic descriptions
based on ontologies and semantic services; tracking, fusion and
decision-making logic is implemented using agent objects and semantic
descriptions as well.}
}