A Knowledge-Based Multi-agent Geo-simulation Framework: Application to Intelligent Sensor Web Deployment

Sensor Web deployment is by nature a spatial problem since nodes are highly constrained by the geographic characteristics of the environment. Therefore, there is a need for an efficient modelling paradigm to address the issue of SW deployment taking into consideration the constraints of the geographic space. In this paper we propose a knowledge-based multi-agent geo-simulation framework to support the simulation of SW deployments in Informed Virtual Geographic Environments. This framework builds on our previous works on Informed Virtual Geographic Environments generation, on spatially reasoning agents and on qualitative reasoning about geo-simulation results. We illustrate the framework with a scenario of a sensor web deployment for weather monitoring purposes.