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A patient's digital twin is a computational model that describes the evolution of their health over time. Digital twins have the potential to revolutionize medicine by enabling individual-level computer simulations of human health, which…

The concept of digital twins has attracted significant attention across various domains, particularly within the built environment. However, there is a sheer volume of definitions and the terminological consensus remains out of reach. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Mahmoud Abdelrahman , Edgardo Macatulad , Binyu Lei , Matias Quintana , Clayton Miller , Filip Biljecki

Digital Twins hold great potential to personalize clinical patient care, provided the concept is translated to meet specific requirements emerging from established clinical workflows. We present a general and unspecialized Digital Twin…

Digital twin (DT) systems aim to create virtual replicas of physical objects that are updated in real time with their physical counterparts and evolve alongside the physical assets throughout its lifecycle. Transportation systems are poised…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Muhammad Sami Irfan , Sagar Dasgupta , Mizanur Rahman

The growing complexity of healthcare systems requires advanced computational models for real-time monitoring, secure data exchange, and intelligent decision-making. Digital Twins (DTs) provide virtual representations of physical healthcare…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Asma Taheri Monfared , Andrea Bombarda , Angelo Gargantini , Majid Haghparast

The trend in industrial automation is towards networking, intelligence and autonomy. Digital Twins, which serve as virtual representations, are becoming increasingly important in this context. The Digital Twin of a modular production system…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Daniel Dittler , Peter Lierhammer , Dominik Braun , Timo Müller , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

Digital Twins have been described as beneficial in many areas, such as virtual commissioning, fault prediction or reconfiguration planning. Equipping Digital Twins with artificial intelligence functionalities can greatly expand those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Maschler , Dominik Braun , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

Digital twins belong to ten of the strategic technology trends according to the Gartner list from 2019, and have encountered a big expansion, especially with the introduction of Industry 4.0. Sport, on the other hand, has become a constant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tilen Hliš , Iztok Fister , Iztok Fister

Training effective artificial intelligence models for telecommunications is challenging due to the scarcity of deployment-specific data. Real data collection is expensive, and available datasets often fail to capture the unique operational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Clement Ruah , Houssem Sifaou , Osvaldo Simeone , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

The rapid evolution toward 6G and beyond communication systems is accelerating the convergence of digital twins and world models at the network edge. Traditional digital twins provide high-fidelity representations of physical systems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jie Zheng , Dusit Niyato , Changyuan Zhao , Jiawen Kang , Jiacheng Wang

The biopharmaceutical industry is increasingly developing digital twins to digitalize and automate the manufacturing process in response to the growing market demands. However, this shift presents significant challenges for human operators,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mohammed Aatif Shahab , Francesco Destro , Richard D. Braatz

The Digital Twins offer promising solutions for smart grid challenges related to the optimal operation, management, and control of energy assets, for safe and reliable distribution of energy. These challenges are more pressing nowadays than…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Tudor Cioara , Ionut Anghel , Marcel Antal , Ioan Salomie , Claudia Antal , Arcas Gabriel Ioan

Digital twins (DT) of industrial processes have become increasingly important. They aim to digitally represent the physical world to help evaluate, optimize, and predict physical processes and behaviors. Therefore, DT is a vital tool to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yunpeng Ma , Khalil Younis , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Andreas Kassler , Pavel Krakhmalev , Andreas Thore , Hans Lindback

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive critical overview on how entities and their interactions in Complex Networked Systems (CNS) are modelled across disciplines as they approach their ultimate goal of creating a Digital Twin (DT) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Jiaqi Wen , Bogdan Gabrys , Katarzyna Musial

Digital twins are models of real-world systems that can simulate their dynamics in response to potential actions. In complex settings, the state and action variables, and available data and knowledge relevant to a system can constantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Harry Amad , Nicolás Astorga , Mihaela van der Schaar

Virtual patients and digital patients/twins are two similar concepts gaining increasing attention in health care with goals to accelerate drug development and improve patients' survival, but with their own limitations. Although methods have…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-25 Hanwen Wang , Theinmozhi Arulraj , Alberto Ippolito , Aleksander S. Popel

The adoption of Digital Twin technologies is rapidly expanding in diverse industrial, economic, and societal domains. Over the past decade, a multitude of studies, surveys, and investigations have been conducted, examining the nature,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Philipp Zech , Yanis Mair , Michael Vierhauser , Pablo Oliveira Antonino , Frank Schnicke , Tony Clark

Optimizing modern wireless networks is exceptionally challenging due to their high dynamism and complexity. While the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) powered by reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising solution, its practical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Zhenyu Tao , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

While the concept of a digital twin to support maritime operations is gaining attention for predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, control, and overall process optimization, clarity on its implementation is missing in the literature.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Federico Zocco , Hsueh-Cheng Wang , Mien Van

The use of Digital Twins in the industry has become a growing trend in recent years, allowing to improve the lifecycle of any process by taking advantage of the relationship between the physical and the virtual world. Existing literature…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Javier Conde , Andrés Munoz-Arcentales , Álvaro Alonso , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Joaquín Salvachúa