Dynamic Social Structure of Things: A Contextual Approach in CPSS

The emergence of cyber-physical social systems (CPSS) and context-aware technologies boost a growing interest in the building of adaptive smart services framework which hide heterogeneity in the infrastructure and support services visibility based on the seamless integration among cyber, physical and social worlds. However, this implies a big deal of computational and networking contextual complexity. In this article we propose a novel smart services framework in CPSS to boost sociality as well as narrow down the contextual complexity based on situational-awareness. That is, Dynamic Social Structure of Things (DSSoT) is proposed whereby within a given spatio-temporal situation and based on the individual goals and various other social aspects of users, relevant social objects and smart services are induced and structured in a temporal network of interactions. An application scenario utilizing DSSoT, namely Airport Dynamic Social, is additionally provided as a proof of concept.