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Cyber physical systems technologies and applications
Future Generation Computer Systems 56 (2016) 436–437
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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 Korea
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Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden
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Department of Math, Computer Science and Information Systems, California University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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Article history: Available online 4 November 2015 Keywords: Cyber-Physical Society Cyber-Physical Systems Internet of Things Social Computing
abstract With the rapid progresses in ICT (Information Communication Technology), multidisciplinary research fields 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 not entirely 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
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Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Rho), [email protected] (A.V. Vasilakos), [email protected] (W. Chen). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.10.019 0167-739X/© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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 Neal N Xiong [4] is a survey for the concept 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 Capillary Devices with high usability based on Cyber-Physical System’’ by Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, M. Mazhar Rathore, and Hangbae Chang [6] proposes the concept of Smart Cyber Society and the virtual communication platform that is composed of six functional communication layers (Asset, Application, Accessibility, Findability, 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 domain (networked of various societies, i.e., hospitals and police station), 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 focusing on its three main features such as interconnection, intelligence, and greenness. They also address some open challenging issues in the field of Cybermatics. 3. Conclusion Finally, our special thanks go to Prof. Peter Sloot and all editorial staffs for their valuable supports throughout the preparation and publication 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. References [1] Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Smart world: Physical-cyber-social-thinking converged world, 2015 Smart World Congress, Beijing, China, August 10–14, 2015. [2] Hai Zhuge, Cyber-Physical Society — The science and engineering for future society, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 32 (2014) 180–186. Elsevier. [3] Jianqi Liu, Jiafu Wan, Qinruo Wang, Bi Zeng, Shaoliang Fang, A time-recordable cross-layer communication protocol for the positioning of vehicular cyberphysical systems, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 438–448.
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[4] Fei Hu, Yu Lu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qi Hao, Rui Ma, Yogendra Patil, Ting Zhang, Jiang Lu, Xin Li, Neal N. Xiong, Robust cyber-physical systems: Concept, models, and implementation, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 449–475. [5] Rasmeet S. Bali, Neeraj Kumar, Secure clustering for efficient data dissemination in vehicular cyber-physical systems, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 476–492. [6] Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, M. Mazhar Rathore, Hangbae Chang, Smart cyber society: Integration of capillary devices with high usability based on cyberphysical system, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 493–503. [7] Huansheng Ning, Hong Liu, Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Runhe Huang, Cybermatics: Cyber-physical-social-thinking hyperspace based science and technology, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 504–522.
Dr. Seungmin Rho received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Ajou University, Korea, in 2008. In 2008–2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Computer Music Lab of the School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009–2011, he had been working as a Research Professor at School of Electrical Engineering in Korea University. In 2012, he was an assistant professor at Division of Information and Communication in Baekseok University. Dr. Rho is currently a faculty of Department of Multimedia at Sungkyul University. He is an Editor-in-Chief at Journal of Platform Technology. His current research interests include database, big data analysis, music retrieval, multimedia systems, machine learning, knowledge management as well as computational intelligence. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved in more than 20 conferences and workshops as various chairs and more than 30 conferences/workshops as 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 journal special issues as a guest editor, such as Enterprise Information Systems, Multimedia Systems, Information Fusion, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Telecommunication Systems, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless.
Prof. Athanasios V. Vasilakos is recently Professor with the Luleå University of Technology. He served or is serving as an Editor for many technical journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service management; IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience; IEEE Transactions 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. Weifeng Chen is currently an associate professor in the department of Math, Computer Science and Information Systems at California University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MS from Chinese Academy of Sciences and BS from Beijing University, all in computer science. His research interests include Cyber Physical Systems, network security, privacy and protocol design.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Future Generation Computer Systems journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs
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 Korea
b
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden
c
Department of Math, Computer Science and Information Systems, California University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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info
Article history: Available online 4 November 2015 Keywords: Cyber-Physical Society Cyber-Physical Systems Internet of Things Social Computing
abstract With the rapid progresses in ICT (Information Communication Technology), multidisciplinary research fields 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 not entirely 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
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Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Rho), [email protected] (A.V. Vasilakos), [email protected] (W. Chen). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.10.019 0167-739X/© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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 Neal N Xiong [4] is a survey for the concept and strategies to build a resilient and integrated cyber-physical system (CPS). They
S. Rho et al. / Future Generation Computer Systems 56 (2016) 436–437
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 Capillary Devices with high usability based on Cyber-Physical System’’ by Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, M. Mazhar Rathore, and Hangbae Chang [6] proposes the concept of Smart Cyber Society and the virtual communication platform that is composed of six functional communication layers (Asset, Application, Accessibility, Findability, 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 domain (networked of various societies, i.e., hospitals and police station), 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 focusing on its three main features such as interconnection, intelligence, and greenness. They also address some open challenging issues in the field of Cybermatics. 3. Conclusion Finally, our special thanks go to Prof. Peter Sloot and all editorial staffs for their valuable supports throughout the preparation and publication 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. References [1] Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Smart world: Physical-cyber-social-thinking converged world, 2015 Smart World Congress, Beijing, China, August 10–14, 2015. [2] Hai Zhuge, Cyber-Physical Society — The science and engineering for future society, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 32 (2014) 180–186. Elsevier. [3] Jianqi Liu, Jiafu Wan, Qinruo Wang, Bi Zeng, Shaoliang Fang, A time-recordable cross-layer communication protocol for the positioning of vehicular cyberphysical systems, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 438–448.
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[4] Fei Hu, Yu Lu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qi Hao, Rui Ma, Yogendra Patil, Ting Zhang, Jiang Lu, Xin Li, Neal N. Xiong, Robust cyber-physical systems: Concept, models, and implementation, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 449–475. [5] Rasmeet S. Bali, Neeraj Kumar, Secure clustering for efficient data dissemination in vehicular cyber-physical systems, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 476–492. [6] Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, M. Mazhar Rathore, Hangbae Chang, Smart cyber society: Integration of capillary devices with high usability based on cyberphysical system, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 493–503. [7] Huansheng Ning, Hong Liu, Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Runhe Huang, Cybermatics: Cyber-physical-social-thinking hyperspace based science and technology, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 56 (2016) 504–522.
Dr. Seungmin Rho received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Ajou University, Korea, in 2008. In 2008–2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Computer Music Lab of the School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009–2011, he had been working as a Research Professor at School of Electrical Engineering in Korea University. In 2012, he was an assistant professor at Division of Information and Communication in Baekseok University. Dr. Rho is currently a faculty of Department of Multimedia at Sungkyul University. He is an Editor-in-Chief at Journal of Platform Technology. His current research interests include database, big data analysis, music retrieval, multimedia systems, machine learning, knowledge management as well as computational intelligence. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved in more than 20 conferences and workshops as various chairs and more than 30 conferences/workshops as 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 journal special issues as a guest editor, such as Enterprise Information Systems, Multimedia Systems, Information Fusion, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Telecommunication Systems, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless.
Prof. Athanasios V. Vasilakos is recently Professor with the Luleå University of Technology. He served or is serving as an Editor for many technical journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service management; IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience; IEEE Transactions 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. Weifeng Chen is currently an associate professor in the department of Math, Computer Science and Information Systems at California University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MS from Chinese Academy of Sciences and BS from Beijing University, all in computer science. His research interests include Cyber Physical Systems, network security, privacy and protocol design.