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Digital twins, as precise digital representations of physical systems, have evolved from passive simulation tools into intelligent and autonomous entities through the integration of artificial intelligence technologies. This paper presents…

Digital Twins (DTs) are becoming increasingly vital for future industrial applications, enhancing monitoring, control, and optimization of physical assets. This enhancement is made possible by integrating various Digital Models (DMs) within…

The design and operation of systems are conventionally viewed as a sequential decision-making process that is informed by data from physical experiments and simulations. However, the integration of these high-dimensional and heterogeneous…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-04 Anton van Beek , Vispi Karkaria , Wei Chen

The Digital Twins (DT) has quickly become a hot topic since it was proposed. It not only appears in all kinds of commercial propaganda, but also is widely quoted by academic circles. However, there are misstatements and misuse of the term…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jiehan Zhou , Shouhua Zhang , Mu Gu

Digital Twins (DTs) are a conventional and well-known concept, proposed in 70s, that are popular in a broad spectrum of sciences, industry innovations, and consortium alliances. However, in the last few years, the growth of digital assets…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Saeed Banaeian Far , Azadeh Imani Rad

Digital Twin (DT) technology revolutionizes industrial processes by enabling the representation of physical entities and their dynamics to enhance productivity and operational efficiency. It has emerged as a vital enabling technology in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Eduardo Freitas , Assis T. de Oliveira Filho , Pedro R. X. do Carmo , Djamel Sadok , Judith Kelner

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

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

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

Complex systems are not entirely decomposable, hence interdependences arise at the interfaces in complex projects. When changes occur, significant risks arise at these interfaces as it is hard to identify, manage and visualise the systemic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Jennifer Whyte , Ranjith Soman , Rafael Sacks , Neda Mohammadi , Nader Naderpajouh , Wei-Ting Hong , Ghang Lee

The recent advancement of information and communication technology makes digitalisation of an entire manufacturing shop-floor possible where physical processes are tightly intertwined with their cyber counterparts. This led to an emergence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Heejong Park , Arvind Easwaran , Sidharta Andalam

The concept of a digital twin has exploded in popularity over the past decade, yet confusion around its plurality of definitions, its novelty as a new technology, and its practical applicability still exists, all despite numerous reviews,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Brian Kunzer , Mario Berges , Artur Dubrawski

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…

The Digital Twins concept in science has a long history that goes back to the beginnings of now widely accepted modelling. The ever-expanding amount of digital data accompanying modelling could not but cause a qualitative transition from…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-01 Elena F. Sheka

As an emerging technology in the era of Industry 4.0, digital twin is gaining unprecedented attention because of its promise to further optimize process design, quality control, health monitoring, decision and policy making, and more, by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam Thelen , Xiaoge Zhang , Olga Fink , Yan Lu , Sayan Ghosh , Byeng D. Youn , Michael D. Todd , Sankaran Mahadevan , Chao Hu , Zhen Hu

As a bridge from virtuality to reality, Digital Twin has increased in popularity since proposed. Ideas have been proposed theoretical and practical for digital twins. From theoretical perspective, digital twin is fusion of data mapping…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Lu Jingyu

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

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

Cognitive Twins (CT) are proposed as Digital Twins (DT) with augmented semantic capabilities for identifying the dynamics of virtual model evolution, promoting the understanding of interrelationships between virtual models and enhancing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Jinzhi Lu , Xiaochen Zheng , Ali Gharaei , Kostas Kalaboukas , Dimitris Kiritsis

The potential of digital twin technology is yet to be fully realized due to its diversity and untapped potential. Digital twins enable systems' analysis, design, optimization, and evolution to be performed digitally or in conjunction with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 MohammadHossein Homaei , Oscar Mogollon Gutierrez , Jose Carlos Sancho Nunez , Mar Avila Vegas , Andres Caro Lindo