[CFP] Special Issue/Research Topic "Mobile Cyber-Physical Collectives"
on Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Key information
- SI title: Mobile Cyber-Physical Collectives
- SI venue: Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Scimago 2020 rank: Q2);
Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology > Software Technologies; Frontiers
in Neurorobotics
- SI web page:
<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/24380/mobile-cyber-physical-collectives>
- DEADLINE (for submission): 25 February 2022
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Current trends are pushing towards a vision of computational and
physical processes that seamlessly, continuously interact to provide
novel kinds of services, applications, and solutions. Such tightly
integrated processes are carried out by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs),
namely networks of “cyber” and “physical” components engineered by
emphasizing the three “C”s of communication, computation, and control.
It is expected that our environments (bodies, homes, buildings, cities)
will be increasingly filled with devices capable of situated action as
well as decision making through their computational counterparts (cf.
digital twins), which may be supported on-board or remotely. In many
cases, these CPSs are able to move about their environment making them
mobile CPS. The more devices get deployed, the more the emphasis moves
from what an individual cyber-physical device can provide to what an
entire collective of mobile cyber-physical devices can provide. Swarms
of robots, crowds of augmented people, ICT infrastructures, wireless
sensor and actuator networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart
grids, are all examples of Mobile Cyber-Physical Collectives (MCPCs),
namely collections of mobile cyber-physical elements sharing tasks or
aiming at global goals or “social benefits”.
While opportunities of emerging CPSs such as MCPCs arise, research is
devoted to addressing theoretical and practical challenges inherent to
distribution, coordination, control, and operational requirements. In
MCPCs, the collective nature adds more challenges related to collective
decision making, emergent behavior, and scalability, which fosters
decentralized architectures and solutions. Additionally, given the large
number of components involved in CPCs, heterogeneity would be
omnipresent and an element to be considered. This brings about different
space and time scales with which we need to deal. System-level
adaptation to environmental change is another prominent issue to be
addressed and studied in fields like self-organizing systems (SOSs) and
collective adaptive systems (CASs) engineering, where natural phenomena
and processes (cf. ant colonies, force fields, cellular systems,
chemical reactions) are often used as inspiration for devising novel
methods and mechanisms. Moreover, nowadays, ICT infrastructures are
getting more complex and intensely exploited, enabling multiple
possibilities for communication and computation across the
edge-fog-cloud continuum; this provides alternatives for deployment of
cyber elements and hence different guarantees and non-functional
outcomes for communication CPSs.
To address these challenges, this Research Topic invites original,
high-quality work presenting novel research on mobile Cyber-physical
Systems operating as collectives. Featured articles should present novel
strategies that address issues in different aspects of collective CPS
such as methods, architecture, design, validation, verification, and
application of cyber-physical collectives.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Digital twins for large-scale CPSs
• Bio-inspired distributed computing approaches
• Multi-disciplinary approaches to collective behaviour design
• Decentralised algorithms for collective decision-making
• Models and tools for heterogeneous socio-technical systems
• Architectures and patterns for CPC systems design
• Methodologies for CPC systems engineering
• Programming languages and non-conventional paradigms for collective
systems
• Techniques for soft or hard real-time coordination of collective activity
• Organisational paradigms for multi-agent systems
• Privacy and security in cyber-physical ecosystems
• Formal methods for analysis and prediction of emergent collective
behaviour
• Verification and validation approaches for cyber-physical CAS
(collective adaptive systems)
• Soft computing approaches to collective systems
• Mobility computing approaches to CPSs
• Approaches to crowds of augmented people and smart devices
• Approaches to swarm robotics
• Approaches to CI (collective intelligence)
• Case studies and applications involving CPCs (e.g., in context like
smart cities, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, security,
healthcare)
Topic editors
- Lukas Esterle, Aarhus University
- Roberto Casadei, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna
- Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa
- Paul Harvey, Rakuten Mobile
- Elizabeth F. Wanner, Aston University
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