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Verifying the correctness of a digital twin provides a formal guarantee that the digital twin operates as intended. Digital twin verification is challenging due to the presence of uncertainties in the virtual representation, the physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Luwen Huang , Lav R. Varshney , Karen E. Willcox

Digital Twin technology is an emerging concept that has become the centre of attention for industry and, in more recent years, academia. The advancements in industry 4.0 concepts have facilitated its growth, particularly in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Aidan Fuller , Zhong Fan , Charles Day , Chris Barlow

In the era of 5G and beyond, the increasing complexity of wireless networks necessitates innovative frameworks for efficient management and deployment. Digital twins (DTs), embodying real-time monitoring, predictive configurations, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Xi Lin , Yuchen Liu

The convergence of digital twin technology and the emerging 6G network presents both challenges and numerous research opportunities. This article explores the potential synergies between digital twin and 6G, highlighting the key challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenshuai Liu , Yaru Fu , Zheng Shi , Hong Wang

Security and privacy are primary concerns in IoT management. Security breaches in IoT resources, such as smart sensors, can leak sensitive data and compromise the privacy of individuals. Effective IoT management requires a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mayra Samaniego , Ralph Deters

Digital twins (DTs) help improve real-time monitoring and decision-making in water distribution systems. However, their connectivity makes them easy targets for cyberattacks such as scanning, denial-of-service (DoS), and unauthorized…

The Digital Twins (DT) has quickly become a hot topic since it was proposed. It not only appears in all kinds of commercial propaganda, but also is widely quoted by academic circles. However, there are misstatements and misuse of the term…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jiehan Zhou , Shouhua Zhang , Mu Gu

We live in a world of exploding complexity driven by technical evolution as well as highly volatile socio-economic environments. Managing complexity is a key issue in everyday decision making such as providing safe, sustainable, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Dirk Hartmann

Digital Twins (DTs) are rapidly emerging as a fundamental brick of engineering cyber-physical systems, but their notion is still mostly bound to specific business domains (e.g. manufacturing), goals (e.g. product design), or application…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Stefano Mariani , Marco Picone , Alessandro Ricci

Digital twins are evolving into self-learning, autonomous systems that link models, data, and human interaction. Realizing their full potential depends on interoperability, standardization, and the integration of artificial intelligence and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Omer San , Adil Rasheed , Eda Bozdemir , Jun Deng

Digital network twins (DNTs), by representing a physical network using a virtual model, offer significant benefits such as streamlined network development, enhanced productivity, and cost reduction for next-generation (nextG) communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zifan Zhang , Zhiyuan Peng , Hanzhi Yu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

One of the challenges in twinned systems is ensuring the digital twin remains a valid representation of the system it twins. Depending on the type of twinning occurring, it is either trivial, such as in dashboarding/visualizations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Joost Mertens , Joachim Denil

Motivated by climate change, increasing industrialization and energy reliability concerns, the smart grid is set to revolutionize traditional power systems. Moreover, the exponential annual rise in number of grid-connected users and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Abdullah Othman , Georges Kaddoum , Joao V. C. Evangelista , Minh Au , Basile L. Agba

Over the recent years, the protection of the so-called `soft-targets', i.e. locations easily accessible by the general public with relatively low, though, security measures, has emerged as a rather challenging and increasingly important…

Digital Twin (DT) technologies promise to remove cyber-physical barriers in systems and services and provide seamless management of distributed resources effectively. Ideally, full-fledged instantiations of DT offer bi-directional features…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ricardo M. Czekster , Alexeis Garcia Perez , Manolya Kavakli-Thorne , Seif Allah El Mesloul Nasri , Siraj Shaikh

As a national critical infrastructure, the smart grid has attracted widespread attention for its cybersecurity issues. The development towards an intelligent, digital, and Internet-connected smart grid has attracted external adversaries for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tianming Zheng , Ping Yi , Yue Wu

Digital Twin (DT) technology revolutionizes industrial processes by enabling the representation of physical entities and their dynamics to enhance productivity and operational efficiency. It has emerged as a vital enabling technology in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eduardo Freitas , Assis T. de Oliveira Filho , Pedro R. X. do Carmo , Djamel Sadok , Judith Kelner

Synchronization is fundamental for mirroring real-world entities in real-time and supporting effective operations of Digital Twins (DTs). Such synchronization is enabled by the communication between the physical and virtual realms, and it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Lal Verda Cakir , Sarah Al-Shareeda , Sema F. Oktug , Mehmet Özdem , Matthew Broadbent , Berk Canberk

With rapid digitization and digitalization, drawing a fine line between the digital and the physical world has become nearly impossible. It has become essential more than ever to integrate all spheres of life into a single Digital Thread to…

The digital twin has emerged as a technology to predict the undesirables, and ensure desired performance of complex systems. Although digital twins have got attention in the manufacturing research spectrum, yet their industrial application…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Ali Ahmad Malik