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Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical entities and are poised to transform personalized medicine through the real-time simulation and prediction of human physiology. Translating this paradigm from engineering to biomedicine…

Digital twins (DT) are often defined as a pairing of a physical entity and a corresponding virtual entity (VE), mimicking certain aspects of the former depending on the use-case. In recent years, this concept has facilitated numerous…

Services for Cyber-Physical Systems based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning require a virtual representation of the physical. To reduce modeling efforts and to synchronize results, for each system, a common and unique virtual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Oliver Niggemann , Alexander Diedrich , Christian Kuehnert , Erik Pfannstiel , Joshua Schraven

In this paper we introduce Y, a new-generation digital twin designed to replicate an online social media platform. Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems that allow for advanced analyses and experimentation. In the case of…

This short paper represents a systematic literature review that sets the basis for the future development of a framework for digital twin-based decision support in the public sector, specifically for the smart city domain. The final aim of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Lucy Temple , Gabriela Viale Pereira , Lukas Daniel Klausner

Smart ecosystems are the drivers of modern society. They control infrastructures of socio-techno-economic importance, ensuring their stable and sustainable operation. Smart ecosystems are governed by digital twins -- real-time virtual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Judith Michael , Istvan David , Dominik Bork

Network Digital Twins represent a key technology in future networks, expected to provide the capability to perform accurate analysis and predictions about the behaviour of 6G mobile networks. However, despite the availability of several…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Cristina Emilia Costa , Tatenda Horiro Zhou , Fabrizio Granelli

A Digital Twin is a virtual system that can fully describe a physical one. It constantly receives data from its counterpart's sensors, consults external sources, and obtains manual inputs from its stakeholders. The DT uses all this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Laura Bragante Corssac , Juliano Araujo Wickboldt

Human Digital Twins (HDTs) are a fast-emerging technology with significant potential in fields ranging from healthcare to sports. HDTs extend the traditional understanding of Digital Twins by representing humans as the underlying physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Martin Wolfgang Lauer-Schmaltz , Philip Cash , John Paulin Hansen , Anja Maier

Digital twins (DTs) are redefining healthcare by paving the way for more personalized, proactive, and intelligent medical interventions. As the shift toward personalized care intensifies, there is a growing need for an individual's virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Melvin Mokhtari

Modern organizations necessitate continuous business processes improvement to maintain efficiency, adaptability, and competitiveness. In the last few years, the Internet of Things, via the deployment of sensors and actuators, has heavily…

Digital twins have emerged as a powerful technology for modeling and simulating complex systems across various domains (Fuller et al., 2020; Tao et al., 2019). As virtual representations of physical assets, processes, or systems, digital…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gabriella Waters

The adoption process of innovative software-intensive technologies leverages complex trust concerns in different forms and shapes. Perceived safety plays a fundamental role in technology adoption, being especially crucial in the case of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Danish Iqbal , Barbora Buhnova , Emilia Cioroaica

With the accelerating availability of multimodal surgical data and real-time computation, Surgical Digital Twins (SDTs) have emerged as virtual counterparts that mirror, predict, and inform decisions across pre-, intra-, and postoperative…

Power systems are inherently multi-timescale systems, with different physical phenomena and decision-making processes spanning multiple timescales, time horizons, and geographic scopes. I envision power systems digital twins (DTs) as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Pedro P. Vergara

Digital twin, which enables emulation, evaluation, and optimization of physical entities through synchronized digital replicas, has gained increasing attention as a promising technology for intricate wireless networks. For 6G, numerous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zhenyu Tao , Wei Xu , Yongming Huang , Xiaoyun Wang , Xiaohu You

This chapter provides an introduction to the foundations of digital twins and makes the case for employing them in smart grids. As engineered systems become more complex and autonomous, digital twin technology gains importance as the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaoran Liu , Istvan David

A human body digital twin (DT) is a virtual representation of an individual's physiological state, created using real-time data from sensors and medical test devices, with the purpose of simulating, predicting, and optimizing health…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Chenyu Tang , Wentian Yi , Edoardo Occhipinti , Yanning Dai , Shuo Gao , Luigi G. Occhipinti

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

In the way towards Industry 4.0, the complexity of the industrial systems increases due to the presence of multiple agents, Cyber-Physical Systems, distributed sensing, and big data introducing unknown dynamics that affect the production…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Jairo Viola , YangQuan Chen