Reconfiguration of Distributed Information Fusion System ? A case study

Information Fusion Systems are now widely used in different fusion contexts, like scientific processing, sensor networks, video and image processing. One of the current trends in this area is to cope with distributed systems. In this context, we have defined and implemented a Dynamic Distributed Information Fusion System runtime model. It allows us to cope with dynamic execution supports while trying to maintain the functionalities of a given Dynamic Distributed Information Fusion System. The paper presents our system, the reconfiguration problems we are faced with and our solutions.Comment: 6 pages - Preprint versio

Patterns for Agent-Based Information Systems: A Case Study in Transport

International audienceIntelligent Transport Information Systems may find benefit of using agent-based solutions. Actually, transport information systems require adaptability to varying changes in offers, and unexpected occurring events. Agents and multiagent systems provide such requirements. Unfortunately, agent-based information systems such as other distributed, asynchronous, loose coupling applications are difficult to design and implement due to lack of best practices to ease development. This paper describes an approach based on software pattern reuse that facilitates engineering of these systems. Some patterns have been specified for the analysis and design of such information systems and are described here. Implementation patterns for a specific platform are sketched in perspectives of this research

Patterns d'Analyse pour l'Ingénierie de Systèmes d'Information à base d'Agents : Une Application au Domaine du Transport

National audienceIntelligent Transport Information Systems may find benefit of using agent-based solutions. Actually, transport information systems require adaptability to varying changes in offers, and unexpected occurring events. Agents and multiagent systems provide such requirements. Unfortunately, agent-based information systems such as other distributed, asynchronous, loose-coupling applications are difficult to design and implement due to lack of best practices to ease development. This paper describes an approach based on software pattern reuse facilitating engineering of such systems. Patterns are generic solutions to frequently occurring problems. Metamodel represents and structures agent concepts. Fourteen analysis patterns have been specified from this metamodel and describe conceptual entities for the design of an agent-based IS application. Reuse support patterns help designers to reuse former patterns during the information system application engineering

Integrating OPC Data into GSN Infrastructures

This paper presents the design and the implementation of an interface software component between OLE for Process Control (OPC) formatted data and the Global Sensor Network (GSN) framework for management of data from sensors. This interface, named wrapper in the GSN context, communicates in Data Access mode with an OPC server and converts the received data to the internal GSN format, according to several temporal modes. This work is realized in the context of a Ph.D. Thesis about the control of distributed information fusion systems. The developed component allows the injection of OPC data, like measurements or industrial processes states information, into a distributed information fusion system deployed in a GSN framework. The component behaves as a client of the OPC server. Developed in Java and based on the Opensaca Utgard, it can be deployed on any computation node supporting a Java virtual machine. The experiments show the component conformity according to the Data Access 2.05a specification of the OPC standard and to the temporal modes

Video conference smart room: an information fusion system based on distributed sensors

International audienceThe needs for cross domain technologies called mecatronics have increased in the recent years and examples of mechanical tools directed by computers are now widely available. This paper gives an example of information fusion in the context of a video conference room and exposes two axes of the research. First it shows how to fuse information provided by several sources to locate a speaker. To do this, the system fuses data produced by video cameras and their associated image processing algorithm, with information resulting from signal processing algorithms applied on several micro-phones. Second, this article describes the distributed information fusion system (DIFS) used and the algorithm which decides where the speaker is located in order to allow focus on him. The whole application is managed by a new control system specifically developed for DIFSs. Some key points of the theoretical model on which the control is based are also given