Large Scale Complex Multiagent Systems : Control Methodologies and Information Architectures

未来的军事行动可能涉及增加无人驾驶飞行器的使用，无论是空中、水下还是陆地。在某些情况下，会有非常大的编队。这项研究将开发允许配置无人驾驶车辆编队的方法。同样的方法也适用于大规模传感器网络的建设和运行，一些评论员认为大规模传感器网络是21世纪最重要的技术之一。它们由大量低成本的网络传感器组成，将在安全、农业和环境监测中得到越来越多的应用。

Future military operations are likely to involve increasing use of unmanned vehicles, airborne, underwater or on land. In some cases there will be very large formations. This research will develop methodologies which allow formations of unmanned vehicles to be configured. Much of the same methodology is applicable to the construction and operation of large scale sensor networks, identified by some commentators as one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. They comprise large numbers of low cost networked sensors and will increasingly find application in security, agricultural and environmental monitoring.