"CNAS (Collaborative Network for Atmospheric Sensing) is an agent-based, power-aware sensor network for ground-level atmospheric monitoring."
sound familiar?
http://dancorkill.com/pubs/CNAS-ATSN08.pdf
http://dancorkill.com/pubs
Stumbled across while I was looking into an ancient idea that a friend of mine referenced: blackboard systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system
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