Cyber Physical Socio Ecology

Abstract Exploring the laws of the nature and the rules of human society is the grand challenge of sciences. The Internet, Web, various communication networks and digital devices are connecting each other to form an enormous cyber space. The cyber space gradually connects the natural physical space via various cyber‐physical interfaces to form Cyber Physical Systems. Interacting with humans, Cyber Physical Systems will connect human society to form a new world—Cyber Physical Society. Humans' daily life and work will become increasingly relying on the new world. Billions of years' evolution creates the most elegant and efficient natural ecosystem. It will be ideal if the Cyber Physical Society can be an ecosystem that harmoniously evolves with society, economy, culture, sciences and technologies. The natural ecosystem gives us inspiration to ensure the harmony of the Cyber Physical Society. From ecosystem point of view, this paper proposes the notion, method, scientific issues, general architecture and resource management of Cyber Physical Society. The study of the Cyber Physical Socio Ecology (CPSE) could lead to a new branch of sciences. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.