Understanding the Emergence and Importance of Blockchain-based Cyber-physical Social Machines: A Proposal

Cyber-physical Social Machines (CPSM) is a new socio-technical system, which has a dynamic network of various devices connected together through sensors and communicating devices embedded in them making humans interact using the networked digital technology through web applications. The main aim of the project is to understand the dynamics, emergence and importance of cyber-physical social machines (CPSMs) in terms of characterising emergent behaviours and analysing threats such as privacy, security, ethics, trust, reliability, usability, accessibility and acceptability by developing a decision-making framework. Though there are many advantages and benefits using CPSM there are several issues and challenges associated with them as well. We aim to identify all the threats, issues and challenges faced by the consumers in the CPSM and discuss the potential use of blockchain based solutions to overcome these threats, issues and challenges.