TY - JOUR KW - Wireless Sensor Networks KW - Real-Time Locating Systems KW - Multi-Agent Systems KW - Maritime Piracy AU - Óscar García AU - Ricardo Alonso AU - Dante Tapia AU - Fabio Guevara AB - There is a wide range of military and civil applications where Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) can be used for providing context-awareness for troops and special corps. On the one hand, WSNs comprise an ideal technology to develop Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLSs) aimed at indoor environments, where existing global navigation satellite systems do not work properly. On the other hand, agent-based architectures allow building autonomous and robust systems that are capable of working on highly dynamic scenarios. This paper presents two piracy scenarios where the n-Core platform can be applied. n-Core is a hardware and software platform intended for developing and deploying easily and quickly a wide variety of WSNs applications based on the ZigBee standard. In the first scenario a RTLS is deployed to support boarding and rescue operations. In the second scenario a multi-agent system is proposed to detect the unloading of illegal traffic of merchandise at ports. IS - Special Issue on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence M1 - 5 N2 - There is a wide range of military and civil applications where Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) can be used for providing context-awareness for troops and special corps. On the one hand, WSNs comprise an ideal technology to develop Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLSs) aimed at indoor environments, where existing global navigation satellite systems do not work properly. On the other hand, agent-based architectures allow building autonomous and robust systems that are capable of working on highly dynamic scenarios. This paper presents two piracy scenarios where the n-Core platform can be applied. n-Core is a hardware and software platform intended for developing and deploying easily and quickly a wide variety of WSNs applications based on the ZigBee standard. In the first scenario a RTLS is deployed to support boarding and rescue operations. In the second scenario a multi-agent system is proposed to detect the unloading of illegal traffic of merchandise at ports. PY - 2012 SP - 14 EP - 21 T2 - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence TI - Wireless Sensor Networks and Real-Time Locating Systems to Fight against Maritime Piracy UR - http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI20121_5_2.pdf VL - 1 SN - 1989-1660 ER -