Sensors: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Ravi Tiwari, My T. Thai (auth.), Vladimir L. Boginski, Clayton W. Commander, Panos M. Pardalos, Yinyu Ye (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications 61
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, technological advances have resulted in the rapid development of a new exciting research direction --- the interdisciplinary use of sensors for data collection, systems analysis, and monitoring. Application areas include environmental monitoring, military surveillance, computational neuroscience, seismic detection, and many more. Among the research areas considered, sensor networks represent a very active area, as well as work on problems such as sensor networks, sensor network localization, and network design. They are also related to optimization problems that have multiple applications and require interdisciplinary techniques from several fields. Additionally, neuroscientists use sensors to collect data during tests which record brain activity. These highly calibrated sensors require precision engineering techniques play an important role in analyzing and integrating large datasets.

The purpose of this book is to bring together recent developments of both theoreticians and practitioners representing various fields from engineering, computer science, biomedicine, and the military, share knowledge, ideas, and techniques regarding the state-of-the-art sensor research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On Enhancing Fault Tolerance of Virtual Backbone in a Wireless Sensor Network with Unidirectional Links....Pages 3-18
Constrained Node Placement and Assignment in Mobile Backbone Networks....Pages 19-35
Canonical Dual Solutions to Sum of Fourth-Order Polynomials Minimization Problems with Applications to Sensor Network Localization....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Optimal Estimation of Multidimensional Data with Limited Measurements....Pages 57-82
Information Patterns in Discrete-Time Linear-Quadratic Dynamic Games....Pages 83-117
The Design of Dynamical Inquiring Systems: A Certainty Equivalent Formalization....Pages 119-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Sensors in Transportation and Logistics Networks....Pages 145-163
Study of Mobile Mixed Sensing Networks in an Automotive Context....Pages 165-198
Navigation in Difficult Environments: Multi-Sensor Fusion Techniques....Pages 199-229
A Spectral Clustering Approach for Modeling Connectivity Patterns in Electroencephalogram Sensor Networks....Pages 231-242

✦ Subjects

Optimization; Circuits and Systems; Algorithms; Communications Engineering, Networks; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation