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Original Paper
Distributed intelligence in an astronomical Distributed Sensor Network
Article first published online: 4 MAR 2008
DOI: 10.1002/asna.200710956
Copyright © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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How to Cite
White, R.R., Davis, H., Vestrand, W.T. and Wozniak, P.R. (2008), Distributed intelligence in an astronomical Distributed Sensor Network. Astron. Nachr., 329: 278–279. doi: 10.1002/asna.200710956
Publication History
- Issue published online: 4 MAR 2008
- Article first published online: 4 MAR 2008
- Manuscript Accepted: 26 NOV 2007
- Manuscript Received: 17 OCT 2007
Funded by
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development program
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Keywords:
- astronomical databases: miscellaneous;
- methods: observational;
- methods: miscellaneous;
- telescopes
Abstract
The Telescope Alert Operations Network System (TALONS) was designed and developed in the year 2000, around the architectural principles of a distributed sensor network. This network supported the original Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response (RAPTOR) project goals; however, only with further development could TALONS meet the goals of the larger Thinking Telescope Project. The complex objectives of the Thinking Telescope project required a paradigm shift in the software architecture – the centralised intelligence merged into the TALONS network operations could no longer meet all of the new requirements. The intelligence needed to be divorced from the network operations and developed as a series of peripheral intelligent agents, distributing the decision making and analytical processes based on the temporal volatility of the data. This paper is presented as only one part of the poster from the workshop and in it we will explore the details of this architecture and how that merges with the current Thinking Telescope system to meet our project goals. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)