Guest Editorial on Advances in Tools and Techniques for Enabling Cyber–Physical–Social Systems—Part I

The papers in this special section (Part I) are devoted to the topic of cyberphysical social systems (CPSS). These systems integrate computational physical elements (seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components) capable of interacting with, reflecting and influencing each other as well as the complicated system and information exhibited by human?s social behavior. Rapid advances in mobile cloud computing, man?machine, machine?machine communications,smart phone networks will cause a new paradigm shift in CPSS design, applications, and operations by bringing improvements not only to the quality of service (QoS) but also to quality of experiment (QoE) and quality of protection (QoP) in terms of the cost efficiency, reliability, security, and energy efficiency from the human perspective of view. The integration of cyber?physical systems and social networks also provides a novel platform to addresses challenges in cyber?physical?social interactions and human-centric technologies development by using powerful tools such as social computing, social cooperation, and social sensing. Application examples of employing mobile computing in CPSS include traffic accidents detection in smart transportation, energy management in smart grid, health monitoring and evaluation.