Cyber Computing: From Plant Ecology to Cyber Ecology

With growth of internet and social network service based on web, the complexity and the diversity of the cyberspace is increasingly focused by researchers. In order to research dynamic social interactions relations in cyberspace, this paper present a novel ideas to study cyberspace from new viewpoint of ecology. We first discuss the motivation from plant ecology to cyber ecology and redefine cyber ecology, which is different to previous definition, and then we present cyber ecology and computing research issues from individual, group (community), cyberspace environment and representing cyber information and knowledge. Finally, this paper compares cyber computing with existing research, such as social computing, urban computing and pervasive computing..