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Towards a smart world and ubiquitous intelligence: A walkthrough from smart things to smart hyperspaces and UbicKids

Jianhua Ma (Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo 184‐8584, Japan)
Laurence T. Yang (Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada)
Bernady O. Apduhan (Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka 813‐8503, Japan)
Runhe Huang (Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo 184‐8584, Japan)
Leonard Barolli (Department of Information & Communication Eng., Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka 811‐0295, Japan)
Mokoto Takizawa (Department of Computers & Systems Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Saitama 350‐0394, Japan)

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

ISSN: 1742-7371

Article publication date: 1 February 2005

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Abstract

A cyber world (CW) is a digitized world created on cyberspaces inside computers interconnected by networks including the Internet. Following ubiquitous computers, sensors, e‐tags, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both cyberspaces and real spaces. It is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence or computational intelligence pervasion in the physical world filled with smart things. In recent years, many novel and imaginative researches have been conducted to try and experiment a variety of smart things including characteristic smart objects and specific smart spaces or environments as well as smart systems. The next research phase to emerge, we believe, is to coordinate these diverse smart objects and integrate these isolated smart spaces together into a higher level of spaces known as smart hyperspace or hyper‐environments, and eventually create the smart world. In this paper, we discuss the potential trends and related challenges toward the smart world and ubiquitous intelligence from smart things to smart spaces and then to smart hyperspaces. Likewise, we show our efforts in developing a smart hyperspace of ubiquitous care for kids, called UbicKids.

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Ma, J., Yang, L.T., Apduhan, B.O., Huang, R., Barolli, L. and Takizawa, M. (2005), "Towards a smart world and ubiquitous intelligence: A walkthrough from smart things to smart hyperspaces and UbicKids", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1108/17427370580000113

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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