Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems

We are interested in the physics of cyberspatial objects (events, agents, processes) whose behaviors unfold in cyberspace, a manifold where geospatial, infospatial and temporal indices are required to distinguish one object from another and, for a given object, one state from another. Consequently, we propose a cyberspace-time (CST) reference framework for describing the dynamics of cyberphysical systems (CPS). A CPS is an information system (object, intelligent agent or event) whose behavior is defined in geospatial, infospatial and temporal terms. A CPS is responsible, in whole or in part, for observing and possibly reacting to cyberphysical events. As such it may be an observer-controller of other CPS, in client-server (peer-peer) or parent-child (superior-subordinate) configurations. CST is the cyberspatial analog of the classical space-time reference frames found in Newtonian and relativistic physics.