Abstract:

With rapid development of the Internet and the Internet of Things, a new world, called `hyper world', is emerging by coupling and empowering humans in the social world, information/computers in the cyber world, and things in the physical world. The notion of `Wisdom Web of Things (W2T)' is a novel vision for computing and intelligence in the post-WWW era, recently put forward by a group of leading researchers from the fields of Web Intelligence (WI), Ubiquitous Intelligence (UI), Brian Informatics (BI), and Cyber Individual (CI). As inspired by the material cycle in the physical world, the W2T focuses on the data cycle, namely `from things to data, information, knowledge, wisdom, services, humans, and then back to things.' A W2T data cycle system is designed to implement such a cycle, which is, technologically speaking, a practical way to realize the harmonious symbiosis of humans, computers and things in the emerging hyper world. In this talk, we discuss fundamental issues, challenges and potential applications of such a W2T framework.