Internet of Everything
Laurence Tianruo Yang, Beniamino Di Martino, Qingchen Zhang · Mobile Information Systems · 2017
Due to recent advancements in big data, connection technologies, and smart devices, our environment is transforming into an "Internet of Everything" (IoE).The Internet of Everything has become a catch-all phrase to describe adding connectivity and intelligence to just about every device in order to give them special functions.However, this can be quite reductive, as IoE provides links among not only things, but also data, people, and (business) processes.Evolution of current sensor and device networks, with strong interaction with people and social environments, will have a dramatic impact on everything from city planning, first responders, military, and health.Several Internet and connection-based paradigms fall under the IoE umbrella, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of People (IoP), and Industrial Internet (II).While such areas cover many aspects of today's life, there is still the strong requirement to contextualize and integrate data and information coming from different networks and frameworks.Indeed, there is a need to provide a common ground for integrating information coming from heterogeneous sources.Such a shared ecosystem would allow for the interaction among data, sensor inputs, and heterogeneous systems.Therefore, it is high time to call for contributions to further stimulate the continuing efforts to enable such an integrated framework; some fundamental issues are required to be addressed to provide the necessary bridge between different data representations and to solve terminology incongruence.This special issue attracted numerous submissions, out of which twenty papers have been accepted to be published.These accepted papers are expected to highlight