ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a new approach for the design of resilient sensor networks using a knowledge representation (KR) formalism that will facilitate reasoning and collaboration among sensors. The developed approach can be used to design resilient sensor networks that can assist the power management, control, and monitoring systems in inferring and predicting the system state, as well as determining the health of all components, including sensors. KR is the key to the design of an intelligent sensor management system because it provides the basic cognitive structure of reasoning and machine learning. The chapter provides an algebra for reasoning by analogy by defining a concept similar to a path called a facet chain. The development of technologies presents an opportunity to develop a new intelligent control paradigm based on reasoning by analogy with the goal of improving the capability of systems.
