Moore's Law states that computational power will roughly double every 18 months. To the semiconductor designer, this means the never-ending challenge of bringing increasingly larger and more complex ICs (Integrated Circuits) to market. It is well known that the principle…

This thesis explores the challenges involved in building autonomous exploration and monitoring systems, and makes contributions on four fronts: describing the semantic context of the collected data, summarizing this information, deciding where to collect this data, and making optimal online…