In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the adoption of emerging sensing
technologies for instrumentation within a variety of structural systems. Wireless sensors and …

Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology for low-cost, unattended monitoring
of a wide range of environments. Their importance has been enforced by the recent delivery …

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Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for
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We consider the problem of choosing a set of k sensor measurements, from a set of m
possible or potential sensor measurements, that minimizes the error in estimating some …

Adequate coverage is very important for sensor networks to fulfill the issued sensing tasks.
In many working environments, it is necessary to make use of mobile sensors, which can …

This e-book is devoted to global optimization algorithms, which are methods to find optimal
solutions for given problems. It especially focuses on Evolutionary Computation by …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

The Definitive Volume on Cutting-Edge Exploratory Analysis of Massive Spatial and
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Gossip algorithms are attractive for in-network processing in sensor networks because they
do not require any specialized routing, there is no bottleneck or single point of failure, and …