Intelligent structural health monitoring systems are composed of sensor nodes capable of on-board processing and analysis of the sensor data. The information necessary to mathematically represent such structural health monitoring (SHM) systems is defined as “monitoring related-information”. Monitoring-related information includes, for example, information about the inherent, dynamic logics of i...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in distributed intelligent sensor networks [ 1121. This interest has been generated by the requirements of military surveillance systems and other civilian applications. An intelligent sensor network is a collection of units with sensing, computational, and communication ability. Thus one has a network of communicating processors with sensin...