Building Social Life Networks

The availability of enormous volumes of heterogeneous Cyber-Physical-Social (CPS) data streams allow design and implementation of networks to connect people with essential life resources. We call these networks Social Life Networks (SLNs). We are developing concepts, technology, and infrastructure to design and build these networks. SLNs will be helpful in addressing several essential societal problems in everyday life as well as during abnormal situations. A person needs to be connected to appropriate resources under the given situations and her own persona and context. Situations should be detected by using heterogeneous data streams. We are building a software framework for situation recognition and determining persona and personal context to connect people to resources efficiently, effectively, and promptly. We present our research in situation recognition, EventShop, persona building, and making connections using a few example scenarios.