Welcome Preface

Dear friends,

We believe that the frontier information science are basically characterized by not only catching up with the human intelligence (e.g. intelligent sensing, making decision and control, etc), but also learn much from the nature-inspired attributes (e.g., dynamics, self-adaptability, energy saving). Among such research areas, a newly-emerged interdisciplinary, Cybermatics (i.e., cyber technology) as we called here, includes three main aspects: Internet of Things (IoT), cyber, physical and social computing, and green computing and communications. Therefore, we have launched three international conferences according to the three aspects.

Cybermatics is characterized by mapping the physical and social spaces into the cyber space to achieve the convergence of the three spaces, i.e., physical, social, and cyber. In the cyber space, ubiquitous entities are greatly independent from the space-time constraints which exist in the physical space. However, could the thinking space be directly mapped into the cyber space? The answer may be a YES, but it is probably an ultimate limit state, i.e., Internet of Thinking (IoTk) which is a collaborative wisdom and thinking beyond the space-time constraints. Thanks to the development of the computer and Internet, Cybermatics has been growing well at its initial stage, which will last for a period of time.

It is predicted that Cybermatics will lead industrialization and IT application to a new level and profoundly change the way of production, living, and even thinking of the mankind.

We look forward to seeing researchers, engineers, and managers from academia, industry, education, and government at the 2013 IEEE World Cybermatics Congress to jointly promote the further development of Cybermatics.

Huansheng Ning, IEEE Senior Member
Beihang University, China

Joint Executive Chair on behalf of
the Organizing and Program Committee