The Interactive Computing Model for Cyber Physical Society

Abstract

With the permeation of information technology into the physical world and human society, we are on the way to a Cyber Physical Society (CPSocio). A CPSocio inter-connects the nature, the cyber space, and the society, so as to provide human beings with a better living and working environment. Researches on CPSocio will lead to a new revolution of information science and technology. In realizing CPSocio, semantics is the most fundamental problem. It is the foundation of all the intelligent activities such as communication, interaction, and cooperation in CPSocio. We are facing various scientific challenges to understand and clarify principles and models of the computing in CPSocio. In this paper we focus on the interactive computing model of Cyber Physical Society, discussing a possible architecture and computing model that enable future intelligent distributed services in CPSocio. The proposed model focuses on the interactive computation emerged from self-interpretation, self-organization and interactions of individual objects. Selfinterpretation enables objects to actively express their own semantic information to others. Interaction among objects will help achieving computing solutions in open, dynamic, limited and heterogeneous environments with partial available information and services. The model aims at providing a feasible framework for systematically tackling key problems and building intelligent services in CPSocio.