Ontology for cyber-physical-social systems self-organisation

Abstract

Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs) integrate various resources from physical, cyber, and social worlds. Efficient interaction of these resources is essential for CPSSs operation. Ontologies do not only provide for semantic operability between different resources but also provide means to create sharable ontology-based context models specified for actual settings. Usage of the context supports situation-driven behavior of CPSSs resources and thus is an enabler for their self-organisation. The present research inherits the idea of context ontologies usage for modelling context in CPSSs. In this work, an upper level context ontology for CPSSs is proposed. This ontology is applied in the domain of self-organising resource network.