CPS 2013 - 3rd Track on Cyber Physical Society with SOA, BPM and Sensor Networks

Along with the stronger capability of computing devices and the cheaper and faster communication networks, computing will be embedded in all types of physical resources, and applications with big societal impact and economic benefit will be created in time and across space. The tight conjoining of, and coordination between, computational (or cyber) and physical resources for achieving this kind of applications are the objectives of cyber physical systems. Generally, cyber physical systems feature a tight integration between computation, communication, and control in their operation and interactions with the task environment in which they are deployed. Beyond the cyber physical systems, the cyber physical society concerns not only the cyber space and the physical space but also humans, knowledge, society and culture. It is a future coordination and collaboration environment that connects nature, cyber space and society under certain rules. Research on cyber physical society will lead to the extension of information science and technology.
While the cyber physical society describes the future environment of collaboration, nowadays, service oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) are coined to specify how the computational resources can coordinate and collaborate, and (wireless) sensor networks (SNs) provide means to sensing the physical resources and interconnecting physical and cyber resources. Leveraging existing techniques (SOA, BPM, and SNs etc) for achieving the vision of cyber physical society is promising. The core scientific problems include the scalability, heterogeneity, integration, security, and the dynamics of the underlying infrastructures. The data management, as well as the semantic interoperability, in the cyber physical society is also posing a great challenge. This track aims to provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing research, development, and deployment efforts in achieving the vision of cyber physical society by means of current techniques.