A Self-adaptive Multi-Agent System for Abnormal Behavior Detection in Maritime Surveillance

Nicolas Brax (1, 2) , Éric Andonoff (1, 3) , Marie-Pierre Gleizes (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SMAC - Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole

This paper presents a MAS dedicated to abnormal behaviors detection and alerts triggering in the maritime surveillance area. This MAS uses anomalies issued from an experienced Rule Engine implementing maritime regulation. It evaluates ships behavior cumulating the importance of related anomalies and triggers relevant alerts towards human operators involved in maritime surveillance. These human operators evaluate triggered alerts and confirm or invalidate them. Invalidated alerts are sent back to the MAS for a learning step since it self-adapts anomalies values to be consistent with human operators feedbacks. This MAS is implemented in the context of the project I2C, an EU funded project dedicated to abnormal ships behavior detection and early identification of threats such as oil slick, illegal fishing, or lucrative criminal activities (e.g. goods, drugs, or weapons smuggling).

Mots clés: Maritime Surveillance; Alert; Learning; Adaptive MAS

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Nicolas Brax, Éric Andonoff, Marie-Pierre Gleizes. A Self-adaptive Multi-Agent System for Abnormal Behavior Detection in Maritime Surveillance. 6th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2012), Jun 2012, Dubrovnick, Croatia. pp.174-185, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-30947-2_21⟩. ⟨hal-03792685⟩