Abstract Because of the wide variety possible application fields and spread smart devices, research wireless sensor networks has become an increasingly important area in last decade. During design these networks, several aspects have to be considered, for example lifetime network, expected battery usage, or robustness installed system. In this paper a simulation environment is introduced that e...

The ever increasing capabilities and complexity of sensor networks have led to an increased interest in sensor placement and observation planning problems. Many sensor placement and planning problems, however, lead to instances of the intractable classical planning problems or (similarly intractable) partially observable Markov decision processes. We consider the problem of planning sensor acti...

Water distribution systems are vulnerable to intentional, along with accidental, contamination of the water supply. Contamination warning systems have been developed with the goal of providing an early detection of contamination. A network of water quality sensors deployed in a system can alert an operator of a potential contamination event, but these sensors must be placed in locations that ma...