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The concept of digital twin (DT), which enables the creation of a programmable, digital representation of physical systems, is expected to revolutionize future industries and will lie at the heart of the vision of a future smart society,…

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As autonomous robots increasingly navigate complex and unpredictable environments, ensuring their reliable behavior under uncertainty becomes a critical challenge. This paper introduces a digital twin-based runtime verification for an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Joakim Schack Betzer , Jalil Boudjadar , Mirgita Frasheri , Prasad Talasila

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

Optimizing modern wireless networks is exceptionally challenging due to their high dynamism and complexity. While the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) powered by reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising solution, its practical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Zhenyu Tao , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

Background. Digital Twins (DTs) are dynamic virtual representations of physical systems, enabled by seamless, bidirectional communication between the physical and digital realms. Among the challenges impeding the widespread adoption of DTs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alessandra Somma , Domenico Amalfitano , Alessandra De Benedictis , Patrizio Pelliccione

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

The biopharmaceutical industry is increasingly developing digital twins to digitalize and automate the manufacturing process in response to the growing market demands. However, this shift presents significant challenges for human operators,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mohammed Aatif Shahab , Francesco Destro , Richard D. Braatz

Digital twins are models of real-world systems that can simulate their dynamics in response to potential actions. In complex settings, the state and action variables, and available data and knowledge relevant to a system can constantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Harry Amad , Nicolás Astorga , Mihaela van der Schaar

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

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

The proliferation of emergent network applications (e.g., telesurgery, metaverse) is increasing the difficulty of managing modern communication networks. These applications entail stringent network requirements (e.g., ultra-low…

Digital network twins (DNTs) are virtual representations of physical networks, designed to enable real-time monitoring, simulation, and optimization of network performance. When integrated with machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Dianwei Chen , Xianfeng Yang , Yuchen Liu

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are available in a multitude of scenarios, and provide constant, contextual data which can be leveraged to automatically reconfigure and optimize smart environments. To realize this vision, Artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Luca Bedogni , Federico Chiariotti

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 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

Digital twins are emerging as a valuable tool for short-term decision-making as well as for long-term strategic planning across numerous domains, including process industry, energy, space, transport, and healthcare. This paper reports on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Riccardo Sieve , Paul Kobialka , Laura Slaughter , Rudolf Schlatte , Einar Broch Johnsen , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

Multiple forms of digital transformation are imminent. Digital Twins represent one concept. It is gaining momentum because it may offer real-time transparency. Rapid diffusion of digital duplicates faces hurdles due to lack of semantic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Shoumen Palit Austin Datta

Over the past decade, scientific machine learning has transformed the development of mathematical and computational frameworks for analyzing, modeling, and predicting complex systems. From inverse problems to numerical PDEs, dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Matthias Chung , Deepanshu Verma , Max Collins , Amit N. Subrahmanya , Varuni Katti Sastry , Vishwas Rao

Single-arm trials are an important study design for evaluating drug efficacy and safety without enrolling patients into a control arm. Although they do not provide the gold-standard evidence of randomized controlled trials, they are…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-14 Daniele Bertolini , Franklin Fuller , Aaron M. Smith , Jonathan R. Walsh , Run Zhuang

Digital twins have been introduced as supporters to city operations, yet existing scene-descriptor formats and digital twin platforms often lack the integration, federation, and adaptable connectivity that urban environments demand. Modern…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ioannis Tsampras , Georgios Stergiopoulos , Tanya Politi , Spyros Denazis