A Cloud-Based Architecture with embedded Pragmatics Renderer for Ubiquitous and Cloud Manufacturing

The paper presents a Cloud-based architecture for Ubiquitous and Cloud Manufacturing as a multilayer communicational designated as the Communicational Architecture. It is characterised as (a) rich client interfaces (Rich Internet) with sufficient interaction to allow user agility and competence, (b) multimodal, for multiple client device support and (c) communicational to allow pragmatics, where human-to-human real interaction is completely. The main innovative part of this architecture is sustained by a semiotic framework organised on three main levels: (a) device level, which allows the user ‘to use’ pragmatics with the system, (b) application level which results a set of tools which allows users pragmatics-based interaction and (c) application server level that implements the renderer, a pragmatics supporting engine that supports all pragmatics services. The Pragmatics renderer works as communication enabler, and consists of a set of integrated collaboration technology that makes the bridge between the/devices and the ‘system’. A federated or community cloud is developed using a particular cloud RESTful Application Interface that supports (cloud) services registration, composition and governance (pragmatics services as SaaS in the cloud).