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By interacting, synchronizing, and cooperating with its physical counterpart in real time, digital twin is promised to promote an intelligent, predictive, and optimized modern city. Via interconnecting massive physical entities and their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Shaolong Guo , Minghui Dai , Tom H. Luan , Yiliang Liu

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

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

In Industry 4.0, the digital twin is one of the emerging technologies, offering simulation abilities to predict, refine, and interpret conditions and operations, where it is crucial to emphasize a heightened concentration on the associated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Alexander D. Zemskov , Yao Fu , Runchao Li , Xufei Wang , Vispi Karkaria , Ying-Kuan Tsai , Wei Chen , Jianjing Zhang , Robert Gao , Jian Cao , Kenneth A. Loparo , Pan Li

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

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

Despite best efforts, various challenges remain in the creation and maintenance processes of digital twins (DTs). One of those primary challenges is the constant, continuous and omnipresent evolution of systems, their user's needs and their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Joost Mertens , Stefan Klikovits , Francis Bordeleau , Joachim Denil , Øystein Haugen

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) rely on advanced communication and control technologies to efficiently manage devices and the flow of information in the system. However, a wide variety of potential security challenges has emerged due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Nandha Kumar Kandasamy , Sarad Venugopalan , Tin Kit Wong , Leu Junming Nicholas

Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly deployed across application domains, yet the treatment of trust-related issues remains unevenly addressed. To examine whether and how trust is discussed in the current landscape, we conducted a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chi Fai David Lam , Aad van Moorsel , Zoya Pourmirza

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

Digitalisation is one of the main drivers of most economic sectors nowadays and the digital twin, as a reification of digitalisation for complex systems has attracted much attention from both academics and industry. There have been studies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Guanyu Xiong , Yan Gao , Haijiang Li

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

Digital Twins (DTs) are set to become a key enabling technology in future wireless networks, with their use in network management increasing significantly. We developed a DT framework that leverages the heterogeneity of network access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Roberto Morabito , Bivek Pandey , Paulius Daubaris , Yasith R Wanigarathna , Sasu Tarkoma

Cyber defense is reactive and slow. On average, the time-to-remedy is hundreds of times larger than the time-to-compromise. In response to the expanding ever-more-complex threat landscape, Digital Twins (DTs) and particularly Human Digital…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Tam N. Nguyen

Resilience in cyber-physical systems (CPS) is the fundamental ability to maintain safety and critical functionality despite adverse "perturbations," which includes security attacks, environmental disruptions, and hardware or software…

Security and safety are of paramount importance to human-robot interaction, either for autonomous robots or human-robot collaborative manufacturing. The intertwined relationship between security and safety has imposed new challenges on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Christopher Carr , Shenglin Wang , Peng Wang , Liangxiu Han

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of distributed engineered environments where the monitoring and surveillance tasks are governed by tightly integrated computing, communication and control technologies. CPS are omnipresent in our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Michel Barbeau , Georg Carle , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro , Vicenç Torra

Digital twins are becoming increasingly relevant in the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, enhancing the capabilities and quality of various applications. However, the concept of \dts lacks a unified definition and faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alexander Barbie , Wilhelm Hasselbring

The future of wireless network generations is revolving toward unlocking the opportunities offered by virtualization and digitization services, with the aim to realize improved quality-of-experience (QoE) and bring several advantages to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lina Bariah , Hikmet Sari , Merouane Debbah

To facilitate an effective, efficient, transparent, and timely decision-making process as well as to provide guidelines for industry planning and public policy development, a conceptual framework of digital twins (DTs) for logistics and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Tho V. Le , Ruoling Fan