Cyber-physical systems are being deployed in a wide variety of applications, creating a highly-capable infrastructure of networked “smart” systems that utilize coordinated computational and physical resources to perform complicated tasks either autonomously or in cooperation with humans. The design and testing of these systems using current methods, while time-consuming and costly, is not neces...

We present our vision of a new group collaboration infrastructure, the Networked Semantic Desktop, drawing from co-evolving research in the Semantic Web, Peer-toPeer (P2P) Networks, and Online Social Networking.

Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collaboration and the sharing of information, computation and human resources. They need an infrastructure that would ensure the interoperability of their information systems while maintaining the privacy of their data, rap...