Looking ahead in pervasive computing: Challenges and opportunities in the era of cyber-physical convergence
By Marco Conti, Sajal K. Das, C. Bisdikian, Mohan J. Kumar, Lionel Ming-shuan Ni, Andrea Passarella, G. Roussos, Gerhard Tröster, Gene Tsudik, Franco Zambonelli. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2012
306 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The physical environment is becoming more and more saturated with computing and communication entities that interact among themselves, as well as with users: virtually everything will be enabled to source information and respond to appropriate stimuli. In this technology-rich scenario, real-world components interact with cyberspace via sensing, computing and communication elements, thus driving towards what is called the Cyber-Physical World (CPW) convergence. Information flows from the physical to the cyber world, and vice-versa, adapting the converged world to human behavior and social dynamics. Indeed humans are at the center of this converged world since information about the context in which they operate is the key element to adapt the CPW applications and services. Alongside, a new wave of (human) social networks and structures are emerging as important drivers for the development of novel communication and computing paradigms. In this article we present some of the research issues, challenges and opportunities in the convergence between the cyber and physical worlds. This article is not a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the CPW convergence. Instead, it presents some exciting research challenges and opportunities identified by members of the journal's editorial board with a goal to stimulate new research activities in the emerging areas of CPW convergence.
Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/26bef2b75560f48878fec4cc6e098c50d8240ab3
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Computer Networks and Communications
Citations in the corpus
- Design Techniques and Applications of Cyberphysical Systems: A Survey (2015, background): “CPSs are defined as the systems that offer integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes [2]–[5] or, in other words, as the systems where physical and software”
- Seven HCI Grand Challenges (2019, unknown): “Interactions in smart environments and ecosystems will become more implicit (Bibri, 2015), often concealed in the continuum between the physical and the digital (Conti et al., 2012).”