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Digital twins are sophisticated software systems for the representation, monitoring, and control of cyber-physical systems, including automotive, avionics, smart manufacturing, and many more. Existing definitions and reference models of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jerome Pfeiffer , Jingxi Zhang , Benoit Combemale , Judith Michael , Bernhard Rumpe , Manuel Wimmer , Andreas Wortmann

Digital twins, which are a new concept in industrial control systems (ICS), play a key role in realizing the vision of a smart factory, and they can have different effective use cases. With digital twins, we have virtual replicas of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Fatemeh Akbarian , Emma Fitzgerald , Maria Kihl

Human digital twins (HDTs) are dynamic, data-driven virtual representations of individuals, continuously updated with multimodal data to simulate, monitor, and predict health trajectories. By integrating clinical, physiological, behavioral,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rong Pan , Hongyue Sun , Xiaoyu Chen , Giulia Pedrielli , Jiapeng Huang

Background and Objective: Precise preoperative planning and effective physician training for coronary interventions are increasingly important. Despite advances in medical imaging technologies, transforming static or limited dynamic imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shuo Wang , Tong Ren , Nan Cheng , Rong Wang , Li Zhang

A digital health twin can be defined as a virtual model of a physical person, in this specific case, a patient. This virtual model is constituted by multidimensional data that can host from clinical, molecular and therapeutic parameters to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Manuel Cossio

Digital Twin (DT) has gained great interest as an innovative technology in Industry 4.0 that enables advanced modeling, simulation, and optimization of service and manufacturing systems. This article provides an extensive review of the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Sarow Saeedi

With healthcare demand rising worldwide, hospital services are increasingly needed. Hospitals' performance is tightly linked to their surgical suite performance, which makes it necessary for surgical suites to be efficient. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Leah Rifi , Canan Pehlivan , Cléa Martinez , Maria Di Mascolo , Franck Fontanili

Digital Twin was introduced over a decade ago, as an innovative all-encompassing tool, with perceived benefits including real-time monitoring, simulation and forecasting. However, the theoretical framework and practical implementations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Angira Sharma , Edward Kosasih , Jie Zhang , Alexandra Brintrup , Anisoara Calinescu

Objective: A digital twin of a patient can be a valuable tool for enhancing clinical tasks such as workflow automation, patient-specific X-ray dose optimization, markerless tracking, positioning, and navigation assistance in image-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Karthik Shetty , Annette Birkhold , Srikrishna Jaganathan , Norbert Strobel , Bernhard Egger , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier

After Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the subject of Digital Twins has emerged as another promising technology, advocated, built, and sold by various IT companies. The approach aims to produce highly realistic models of real…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-11 Dirk Helbing , Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo

Digital twin (DT) enables smart manufacturing by leveraging real-time data, AI models, and intelligent control systems. This paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis on the emerging field of DTs in the context of milling. The critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Wenyi Liu , R. Sharma , W. "Grace" Guo , J. Yi , Y. B. Guo

Digital Twins (DTs), optimize operations and monitor performance in Smart Critical Systems (SCS) domains like smart grids and manufacturing. DT-based cybersecurity solutions are in their infancy, lacking a unified strategy to overcome…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ahmad Mohsin , Helge Janicke , Surya Nepal , David Holmes

This article presents a vision where \textit{real-time} digital twins of the physical wireless environments are continuously updated using multi-modal sensing data from the distributed infrastructure and user devices, and are used to make…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Shuaifeng Jiang , Gouranga Charan

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…

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

The complexity of cyberattacks in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) calls for a mechanism that can evaluate critical infrastructures' operational behaviour and security without affecting the operation of live systems. In this regard, Digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Sabah Suhail , Saif Ur Rehman Malik , Raja Jurdak , Rasheed Hussain , Raimundas Matulevičius , Davor Svetinovic

Digital Twins (DTs) are virtual representations of physical objects or processes that can collect information from the real environment to represent, validate, and replicate the physical twin's present and future behavior. The DTs are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-26 S M Mostaq Hossain , Sohag Kumar Saha , Shampa Banik , Trapa Banik

Digital Twins are part of the vision of Industry 4.0 to represent, control, predict, and optimize the behavior of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs). These CPPSs are long-living complex systems deployed to and configured for diverse…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Tim Bolender , Gereon Bürvenich , Manuela Dalibor , Bernhard Rumpe , Andreas Wortmann

Digital twins have become popular for their ability to monitor and optimize a process or a machine, ideally through its complete life cycle using simulations and sensor data. In this paper, we focus on the challenge of accurate and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Karim Cherifi , Philipp Schulze , Volker Mehrmann , Leo Goßlau , Pascal Lünnemann

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