Cyberworld modeling - integrating cyberworlds, the real world and conceptual worlds

摘要

The globalization of the real world we live has been almost exploding in its speed and scale spatiotemporally in all the key aspects including business, economy, industry, education and culture, making it hard for human beings to cognize what's going on and deal with them . Thus the links between the real world and conceptual world is getting weaker. The globalization is mainly driven by the Web-based activities in their cyberspaces creating cyberworlds as seen in e-business, e-commerce, e-manufacturing and cultural heritages through the Web and on the Web. Thus the links between the real world and cyberworlds are ever becoming tighter nonlinearly in time and space. It is now crucial to find a way to automatically integrate the dynamically changing worlds, namely the real world, cyberworlds and conceptual worlds, fast enough to cope with the rapid changes. It is a hard task owing to the vast complexity of the worlds to be integrated, and it requires an advanced abstraction modeling. This is an interim progress report on it, presenting the outline based on the previous works on the abstraction hierarchy modeling of cyberworlds to realize an incrementally modular hierarchical modeling of cyberworlds via attaching spaces as quotient spaces and attaching maps. Attaching spaces are also for unique integration of the worlds that are real, cyber, and/or conceptual. They also guarantee liner interoperability of the integrated worlds to eliminate the combinatorial explosion of the computing in their complexity.