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                  <h1>Distributed Sensing and Coordination</h1>
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         </div><p>This activity involves coordinating a swarm of sensor nodes to achieve collaborative tasks. These include search-and-rescue
         exploration tasks using swarms of robots (e.g. UAVs), distributed traffic monitoring using vehicular networks, as well as
         active sensing and localisation in dynamically changing sensor networks.</p>
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         <h2>Selected Publications</h2>
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         <ul class="list-unbulleted list-unbulleted-spaced"><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            The Cougar Project: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress Report </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alan Demers&#x201a; Johannes Gehrke&#x201a; Rajmohan Rajaraman&#x201a; Niki Trigoni
            and Yong Yao.  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In <em>ACM SIGMOD Record</em>.
            
            Vol. 34.
            
            No. 4.
            December,
            2003.
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            href="/publications/publication3019-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> The Cougar Project: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress
            Report  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
            href="/publications/publication3019.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> The Cougar Project: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress
            Report  </em></span>   </a> 
            	    
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            href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/9871/%22The%20Cougar%20Project%20%20A%20Work%26%238722">Download
            		    
            		    
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            	    </li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Energy&#x2212;Efficient Data Management for Sensor Networks: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress Report </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alan Demers&#x201a; Johannes Gehrke&#x201a; Rajmohan Rajaraman&#x201a; Niki Trigoni
            and Yong Yao  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            2nd IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Sensor Networks</em>.
            2003.
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            href="/publications/publication3020-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Energy&#x2212;Efficient Data
            Management for Sensor Networks: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress Report  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
            href="/publications/publication3020.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Energy&#x2212;Efficient Data Management
            for Sensor Networks: A Work&#x2212;In&#x2212;Progress Report  </em></span>   </a> 
            	    
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            Report  </em></span>
            		    
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            	    </li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Hybrid Push&#x2212;Pull Query Processing for Sensor Networks </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Niki Trigoni&#x201a; Yong Yao&#x201a; Alan Demers&#x201a; Johannes Gehrke and Rajmohan
            Rajaraman  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            GI Workshop on Sensor Networks (WSN)</em>.
            2004.
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            href="/publications/publication3016-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Hybrid Push&#x2212;Pull Query
            Processing for Sensor Networks  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
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                           <a href="/projects/SUAAVE/">Sensing, Unmanned, Autonomous Aerial VEhicles</a>
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                           <a href="/projects/AASN4IP/">Acoustic Actuated Sensor Networks for Industrial Processes (AASN4IP)</a>
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                           <a href="/projects/TIME-EACM/">TIME-EACM</a>
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                           <a href="/projects/AgentExploration/">Agent-based Area Exploration and Event Detection in Emergency Scenarios</a>
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