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Although Digital Twin is actively deployed in manufacturing, its human-centric counterpart - Human Digital Twin (HDT) is understudied, especially in job-shop production with high task variability and manual labor. HDT applications like…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Samiran Sardar , Nasif Morshed , Shezan Ahmed

Central to the digital transformation of the process industry are Digital Twins (DTs), virtual replicas of physical manufacturing systems that combine sensor data with sophisticated data-based or physics-based models, or a combination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Michael Mayr , Georgios C. Chasparis , Josef Küng

The idea of a systematic digital representation of the entire known human pathophysiology, which we could call the Virtual Human Twin, has been around for decades. To date, most research groups focused instead on developing highly…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marco Viceconti , Maarten De Vos , Sabato Mellone , Liesbet Geris

The development of Digital Twins (DTs) represents a transformative advance for simulating and optimizing complex systems in a controlled digital space. Despite their potential, the challenge of constructing DTs that accurately replicate and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Longfei Ma , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jiong Chen , Yinjun Gao , Dongxiao Zhang , Jun-Jie Zhang

Human digital twin (HDT) is an emerging paradigm that bridges physical twins (PTs) with powerful virtual twins (VTs) for assisting complex task executions in human-centric services. In this paper, we study a two-timescale online…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yuye Yang , You Shi , Changyan Yi , Jun Cai , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin , Shen

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…

Digital Twins (DT) are essentially dynamic data-driven models that serve as real-time symbiotic "virtual replicas" of real-world systems. DT can leverage fundamentals of Dynamic Data-Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) bidirectional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Nan Zhang , Rami Bahsoon , Nikos Tziritas , Georgios Theodoropoulos

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

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…

Urban traffic attributed to commercial and industrial transportation is observed to largely affect living standards in cities due to external effects pertaining to pollution and congestion. In order to counter this, smart cities deploy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Abdo Abouelrous , Laurens Bliek , Yingqian Zhang

This paper explores the opportunities of using a digital twin to address the complexities of collaborative production systems through an industrial case and a demonstrator. A digital twin, as a virtual counterpart of a physical human-robot…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ali Ahmad Malik , Alexander Brem

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

Digital Twin (DT) technology is far from being comprehensive and mature, resulting in their piecemeal implementation in practice where some functions are automated by DTs, and others are still performed by humans. This piecemeal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ashwin Agrawal , Robert Thiel , Pooja Jain , Vishal Singh , Martin Fischer

Digital twin networks (DTNs) are real-time replicas of physical networks. They are emerging as a powerful technology for design, diagnosis, simulation, what-if-analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xingqin Lin , Lopamudra Kundu , Chris Dick , Emeka Obiodu , Todd Mostak

Deliberative democracy depends on carefully designed institutional frameworks, such as participant selection, facilitation methods, and decision-making mechanisms, that shape how deliberation performs. However, identifying optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Claudio Novelli , Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo , Dirk Helbing , Antonino Rotolo , Luciano Floridi

Despite the Digital Twin (DT) concept being in the industry for a long time, it remains ambiguous, unable to differentiate itself from information models, general computing, and simulation technologies. Part of this confusion stems from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ashwin Agrawal , Vishal Singh , Martin Fischer

Network digital twin (NDT) models are virtual models that replicate the behavior of physical communication networks and are considered a key technology component to enable novel features and capabilities in future 6G networks. In this work,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Christos Mavridis , Fernando S. Barbosa , Hamed Farhadi , Karl H. Johansson

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 promise a better understanding and use of complex systems. To this end, they represent these systems at their runtime and may interact with them to control their processes. Software engineering is a wicked challenge in which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Robin Kimmel , Judith Michael , Andreas Wortmann , Jingxi Zhang

The transformation to Industry 4.0 also transforms the processes of how we develop intelligent manufacturing production systems. To advance the software development of these new (embedded) software systems, digital twins may be employed.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Alexander Barbie , Wilhelm Hasselbring