Stoyanov, StanimirStoyanova-Doycheva, AsyaGlushkova, TodorksaDoychev, EmilTodorov, Jordan2025-04-222018978-619-7126-57-0http://research.bfu.bg:4000/handle/123456789/2194Summing up the experience of building Virtual Education Space, this paper presents a reference architecture known as Virtual Physical Space (ViPS). ViPS is being developed as a Cyber-Physical-Social-Space. Our goal is for the reference architecture to be adaptable for a variety of Internet of Things ecosystems in different domains such as smart cities, smart environment and agriculture, and intelligent medicine. This paper presents the first version of ViPS's general reference architecture and its core components.bgCyber-Physical and Cyber-Physical-Social SpacesInternet of ThingsIntelligent AgentsReference ArchitecturesVirtual Physical Space.Article