Ontology for Resource Self-organisation in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs) are expected to be context-aware. Sharable contexts lie at the heart of the context-aware systems. Ontologies provide means to create sharable ontology-based context models. Such ontologies are referred to as context ontologies. Context is an ontology-based model specified for actual settings. 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. A case study from the area of proactive recommendation systems demonstrates the proposed approach.