The Cyber-Physical Society
Speaker:
Prof. Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences
Host:
Prof. Alexander Wolf (a.wolf@imperial.ac.uk) Sponsored in part by the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program
Abstract:
Natural physical space provides material basis for the generation and evolution of human beings and civilization. The progress of human society has created the cyber space. With the rapid development of information technology, the cyber space is connecting the physical space, social space and mental space to form a new space — Cyber-Physical Society. Beyond the scope of the Cyber-Physical Systems and Web of Things, the Cyber-Physical Society concerns not only the cyber space and the physical space but also humans, knowledge, society and culture. It is a new environment that connects nature, cyber space and society under certain rules. The cyber-physical society is a multi-dimensional complex space that generates and evolves diverse subspaces to contain different types of individuals interacting with, reflecting or influencing each other directly or through the cyber, physical, socio and mental subspaces. Versatile individuals and socio roles coexist harmoniously yet evolve, provide appropriate on-demand information, knowledge and services for each other, transform from one form into another, interact with each other through various links, and self-organize according to socio value chains. It ensures healthy and meaningful life of individuals, and maintains a reasonable rate of expansion of individuals in light of overall capacity and the material, knowledge, and service flow cycles. Human beings will live and develop in the Cyber-Physical Society in the near future. Exploring the Cyber-Physical Society concerns multiple disciplines and will go beyond Bush’s and Turing’s ideals since traditional machines and the cyber space are limited in ability to implement it. Research objects and conditions of many disciplines will be changed. Methodologies in respective disciplines are not suitable for researching and developing the environment. Multi-disciplinary study will lead to breakthrough in sciences, technologies, engineering and philosophy. This lecture introduces the architecture, distinguished characteristics, scientific issues, principles, super-links, semantics, computing model, and closed loops of the Cyber-Physical Society. The relevant philosophical issues will be discussed.
Bio:
Hai Zhuge is a professor at the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the Chief Scientist of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice Chairman of its Academic Committee. He is a Committee Member of IFIP International Task Force on Web Semantics, and an Associate Editors of the IEEE Intelligent Systems and the Knowledge and Information Systems.
He joined the current institute as a Hundred-Talent-Plan Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000, and then became an Excellent Hundred-Talent-Plan Professor in 2004. He was the Chief Scientist of the National Semantic and Knowledge Grid project from 2004 to 2009, a research project of the prestige Basic Research Program of China. He was the Director of the Key Laboratory and an Associate Editor and Area Editor of many international journals such as Future Generation Computer Systems and Journal of Systems and Software. He is a pioneer of Knowledge Grid research area, and makes systematic contribution to the area by establishing its methodology, Resource Space Model, Semantic Link Network model, and Knowledge Flow Network model. He has established a systematic adaptive complex semantic space model and a set of scalable distributed semantic networking platforms for dynamic knowledge sharing. He initiated the Cyber-Physical Society research direction (www.knowledgegrid.net/~H.Zhuge/CPS.htm), opened scientific issues, and has conducted fundamental research.