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Digital Twins technology is revolutionizing decision-making in scientific research by integrating models and simulations with real-time data. Unlike traditional Structural Health Monitoring methods, which rely on computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji

As digital twins (DTs) evolve to become more agentic through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), they acquire capabilities that extend beyond dynamic representation of their target systems. This paper presents a taxonomy of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Christopher Burr , Mark Enzer , Jason Shepherd , David Wagg

Digital Twin (DT) technology has become rather popular in recent years, promising to optimize production processes, manage the operation of cyber-physical systems, with an impact spanning across multiple application domains (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Mirgita Frasheri , Prasad Talasila , Vanessa Scherma

Digital twin (DT), refers to a promising technique to digitally and accurately represent actual physical entities. One typical advantage of DT is that it can be used to not only virtually replicate a system's detailed operations but also…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiayuan Chen , Changyan Yi , Samuel D. Okegbile , Jun Cai , Xuemin , Shen

The emergence of beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks underscores the critical role of advanced computer-aided tools, such as network digital twins (DTs), in fostering autonomous networks and ubiquitous intelligence. Existing solutions in the DT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Caglar Tunc , Kubra Duran , Buse Bilgin , Gokhan Kalem , Berk Canberk

Digital twin (DT) technology enables real-time simulation, prediction, and optimization of physical systems, but practical deployment faces challenges from high data requirements, proprietary data constraints, and limited adaptability to…

Digital twins (DTs) rely on continuous synchronization between physical systems and their virtual counterparts through online parameter estimation under uncertainty. In many practical settings, however, this task is challenged by low…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yasar Yanik , Himadri Basu , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Daniele Venturi

Recent advances in robotics have been largely driven by imitation learning, which depends critically on large-scale, high-quality demonstration data. However, collecting such data remains a significant challenge-particularly for mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yilin Mei , Peng Qiu , Wei Zhang , WenChao Zhang , Wenjie Song

We present methods and applications for the development of digital twins (DT) for urban traffic management. While the majority of studies on the DT focus on its ``eyes," which is the emerging sensing and perception like object detection and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Yongjie Fu , Mehmet K. Turkcan , Mahshid Ghasemi , Zhaobin Mo , Chengbo Zang , Abhishek Adhikari , Zoran Kostic , Gil Zussman , Xuan Di

A digital twin is a surrogate model that has the main feature to mirror the original process behavior. Associating the dynamical process with a digital twin model of reduced complexity has the significant advantage to map the dynamics with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Diana Alina Bistrian , Omer San , Ionel Michael Navon

Foundation models (FMs), including large language models, have become increasingly popular due to their wide-ranging applicability and ability to understand human-like semantics. While previous research has explored the use of FMs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xinping Yi , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Sim2Real domain transfer offers a cost-effective and scalable approach for developing LiDAR-based perception (e.g., object detection, tracking, segmentation) in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, perception models trained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Muhammad Shahbaz , Shaurya Agarwal

World models enable agents to predict future dynamics conditioned on actions, making the choice of latent representation central to planning and control. Such representations are often either learned directly from pixels with limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Minghao Fu , Fan Feng , Nicklas Hansen , Biwei Huang

This position paper explores the rapid development of Foundation Models (FMs) in AI and their implications for intelligence and reasoning. It examines the characteristics of FMs, including their training on vast datasets and use of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Alan F. Smeaton

Traditional foundation models are pre-trained on broad datasets to reduce the training resources (e.g., time, energy, labeled samples) needed for fine-tuning a wide range of downstream tasks. However, traditional foundation models struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Majid Farhadloo , Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Bharat Jayaprakash , William Northrop , Shashi Shekhar

Digital twins, integral to cloud platforms, bridge physical and virtual worlds, fostering collaboration among stakeholders in manufacturing and processing. However, the cloud platforms face challenges like service outages, vulnerabilities,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Deepika Saxena , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Foundation models have garnered increasing attention for representation learning in remote sensing. Many such foundation models adopt approaches that have demonstrated success in computer vision with minimal domain-specific modification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kevin Lane , Morteza Karimzadeh

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

The pervasive uncertainty and dynamic nature of real-world environments present significant challenges for the widespread implementation of machine-driven Intelligent Decision-Making (IDM) systems. Consequently, IDM should possess the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ying Wen , Ziyu Wan , Ming Zhou , Shufang Hou , Zhe Cao , Chenyang Le , Jingxiao Chen , Zheng Tian , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Simulation frameworks have been key enablers for the development and validation of autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods struggle to comprehensively address the autonomy-oriented requirements of balancing: (i) dynamical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tanmay Vilas Samak , Chinmay Vilas Samak , Bing Li , Venkat Krovi