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Future Generation Computer Systems
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Editorial
Cyber physical systems technologies and applications
Seungmin Rho a,∗, Athanasios V. Vasilakos b, Weifeng
Chen c
a Department of Multimedia, Sungkyul University, Anyang-si,
Republic of Koreab Department of Computer Science, Electrical and
Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-931 87
Skellefteå, Swedenc Department of Math, Computer Science and
Information Systems, California University of Pennsylvania, PA,
USA
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:Available online 4 November 2015
Keywords:
Cyber-Physical Society
Cyber-Physical Systems
Internet of Things
Social Computing
a b s t r a c t
With the rapid progresses in ICT (Information Communication
Technology), multidisciplinary researchfields such as Internet of
Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical System (CPS), and Social Computing
have been
widely explored in recent years. These research and application
have speeded up the formation of
cyberspace, which will further lead to a subversive change for
information science development as well
as human production and living (Ma and Yang, 2015). Cyberspace
is being linked to versatile individuals
in physical space and social space — Cyber-Physical Society
(CPSoc) (Zhuge, 2014). This special issue on
new technologies and research trends for cyber physical systems
technologies and application provides
high quality contributions addressing related theoretical and
practical aspects of CPS technologies and
their applications. We have selected five research papers whose
topics are strongly related to this special
issue.
© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
1. Introduction
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a rapidly emerging field,
which
will touch every aspect of life in the near future.
Semiconductor
and Internet revolutionized and transformed our lives on how
we
interact with information and lead to the growth of
information
technology. Now we are into a new paradigm of CPS that would
transform the way we interact with and manipulate the
physical
systems. As CPS represents a bold new generation of systems
that
integrates computing and communication capabilities with the
dynamics of physical and engineered systems. It has not been
realized how the CPS is going to impact economy and social
structure as vast major investments are being made worldwide
in
developing this technology. The physical world, however, is
notentirely predictable. So we have a wide area open to all
areas
of research to explore and exploit the challenges and
immense
research opportunities in this Cyber-Physical System arena
[1,2].
At this time we feel Future Generation Computer Systems
journal
as a professional entity address this challenge by
organizing
this special issue on Cyber-Physical Systems technologies
and
application. The scope of this issue will give due consideration
in
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.
Rho), [email protected]
(A.V. Vasilakos), [email protected] (W. Chen).
all areas of research that facilitate collaborations between CPS
and
future computer technologies.
Each manuscript was blindly reviewed by at least three
reviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers.
After
two review processes, 5 manuscripts were finally selected to
be
included in this special issue.
In Section 2, we briefly summarize these manuscripts. Section
3
presents a conclusion to this special issue and acknowledgment
to
the authors and reviewers.
2. Paper descriptions
The paper ‘‘A Time-recordable Cross-Layer Communication
Protocol for the Positioning of Vehicular Cyber-Physical
Systems’’by Jianqi Liu, Jiafu Wan, Qinruo Wang, Bi Zeng, and
Shaoliang
Fang [3] proposes a cross-layer communication
protocol to
enhance OSS-TWR (One-Sided Synchronous Two-Way Ranging)
by compensating for the impact of network collision. They
also
propose the time-recordable back-o algorithm which can
record
the total back-o time for a frame resend resulting from a
network
collision.
Next paper entitled ‘‘Robust Cyber-Physical Systems:
Concept,
Models, and Implementation’’ by Fei Hu, Yu Lu, Athanasios V.
Vasilakos, Qi Hao, Rui Ma, Yogendra Patil, Ting Zhang, Jiang Lu,
Xin
Li, and NealN Xiong [4] is a survey for theconcept and
strategies to
build a resilient and integrated cyber-physical system (CPS).
They
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describe the CPS modeling issues since they serve as the basics
of
3S design that is, stability, security, and systematicness.
Another paper entitled ‘‘Secure Clustering For Efficient
Data
Dissemination in Vehicular Cyber-physical Systems’’ by
Rasmeet
S. Bali and Neeraj Kumar [5] addresses the security issue
which
is one of the major concerns as devices communicate with
one another using different protocols. For this, they propose
a
novel secure clustering for efficient data dissemination
between
different devices in VCPS (Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems)
environment. They also defined a new trust metric based on
dynamically varying transmission characteristics of vehicles
for
trust computation among the different devices.
Next paper entitled ‘‘Smart Cyber Society: Integration of
Capil-
lary Devices with high usability based on Cyber-Physical
System’’
by Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, M. Mazhar Rathore, and Hangbae
Chang [6] proposes theconcept of Smart Cyber Society and the
vir-
tual communication platform that is composed of six
functional
communication layers (Asset, Application, Accessibility,
Findabil-
ity, Sharing, and Composition), which provides a common
medium
for communication. They also propose a system architecture
for
smart cyber society which consists of three networked
domains,
such as cyber home domain (networked-home), cyber society
do-
main (networked of various societies, i.e., hospitals and police
sta-tion), and cyber mobile domain (networked of vehicles).
The paper entitled ‘‘Cybermatics: Cyber–physical–social–
thinking hyperspace based science and technology’’ by
Huansheng
Ning, Hong Liu, Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, and Runhe Huang
[7]
defines a concept called ‘‘Cybermatics’’ and
cyber–physical–social–
thinking (CPST) hyperspace. They present a preliminary study
fo-
cusing on its three main features such as interconnection,
intel-
ligence, and greenness. They also address some open
challenging
issues in the field of Cybermatics.
3. Conclusion
Finally, ourspecial thanks go to Prof. Peter Sloot and
alleditorial
staffs for their valuable supports throughout the preparation
andpublication of this special issue. We would like to thank all
authors
for their contributions to this special issue. We also extend
our
thanks to the external reviewers for their time and efforts
in
reviewing the manuscripts.
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Dr. Seungmin Rho received his PhD degree in Com-puter
Science from Ajou University, Korea, in 2008. In2008–2009, he was a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at theComputer Music Lab of the School
of Computer Sciencein Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009–2011, he
had beenworking as a Research Professor at School of Electrical
En-gineeringin Korea University.In 2012, he wasan
assistantprofessor at Division of Information and Communicationin
Baekseok University. Dr. Rho is currently a faculty
of Department of Multimedia at Sungkyul University. He isan
Editor-in-Chief at Journal of Platform Technology. His
current research interests include database, big data analysis,
music retrieval, mul-timedia systems, machine learning, knowledge
management as well as computa-tionalintelligence. He haspublished
more than 200papers in refereed journals and
conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved in
more than 20 con-ferencesand workshops as variouschairs andmore
than30 conferences/workshopsas a program committee member. He has
been appointed as an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Platform Technology since 2013. He has edited a number of
international journalspecial issuesas a guest editor, such as
EnterpriseInformation Systems,Mul-timedia Systems, Information
Fusion, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing, Journal of
Real-Time Image Processing,Future Generation Computer Systems,
Engi-neering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,New Review of
Hypermedia and Mul-timedia, Multimedia Tools and Applications,
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing,Telecommunication Systems, Ad Hoc
& Sensor Wireless.
Prof. Athanasios V. Vasilakos is recently Professor
withtheLuleå University of Technology. Heserved or is servingas an
Editor for many technical journals, such as the IEEETransactions on
Network and Service management; IEEETransactions on Cloud
Computing, IEEE Transactions onInformation Forensics and Security,
IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience;
IEEETransactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine;ACM
Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems;the IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications.He is also General Chair of the
European Alliances for
Innovation (http://www.eai.eu).
Dr.WeifengChen is currentlyan associateprofessor in
thedepartment of Math, Computer Science and InformationSystems at
California University of Pennsylvania. Hereceived his Ph.D. from
University of Massachusetts atAmherst, MS from Chinese Academy of
Sciences andBS from Beijing University, all in computer science.His
research interests include Cyber Physical Systems,network security,
privacy and protocol design.
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