Computational Mechanism Design for Information Fusion within Sensor Networks
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Author(s)
Rogers, Alex
Dash, Rajdeep K
Jennings, NR
Reece, Steve
Roberts, Stephen
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Conventional centralised information fusion and control architectures will be challenged by developments in sensor networks that allow sophisticated autonomous sensors, owned by different stakeholders with individual goals, to interact and share information. Given this, we advocate the use of tools and techniques from computational mechanism design (CMD), a field at the intersection of computer science, game theory and economics, to address the challenges posed by these networks. In particular, CMD allows us to engineer networks with desirable system-wide properties, in which sensors act as rational selfish agents, each attempting to fulfill their own individuals goals through the exchange of observations and information. In this paper, we present our work developing such networks. Specifically, we discuss our development of a generic and principled information valuation metric for sensor networks and we report our experiences applying it within a real world information fusion sensor network scenario.
Date Issued
2006
Citation
Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Florence, Italy, 2006
Journal / Book Title
Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Florence, Italy
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262247/
Source
Ninth International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2006)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
sensor network
information economy
multiagent system
computational mechanism design
data fusion
Notes
Event Dates: July 2006
Publication Status
Unpublished