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Digital twins are transforming engineering and applied sciences by enabling real-time monitoring, simulation, and predictive analysis of physical systems and processes. However, conventional digital twins rely primarily on passive data…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Matteo Torzoni , Domenico Maisto , Andrea Manzoni , Francesco Donnarumma , Giovanni Pezzulo , Alberto Corigliano

Digital Twins are one of the hottest digital trends. In this contribution we will shortly review the concept of Digital Twins and the chances for novel industrial applications. Mathematics are a key enabler and the impact will be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dirk Hartmann , Herman van der Auweraer

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

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

Digital twins promise to revolutionize engineering by offering new avenues for optimization, control, and predictive maintenance. We propose a novel framework for simultaneously training the digital twin of an engineering system and an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Lorenzo Schena , Pedro Marques , Romain Poletti , Samuel Ahizi , Jan Van den Berghe , Miguel A. Mendez

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 (DTs) are computational models that simulate the states and temporal dynamics of real-world systems, playing a crucial role in prediction, understanding, and decision-making across diverse domains. However, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Samuel Holt , Tennison Liu , Mihaela van der Schaar

Uncertainty is an inherent property of any complex system, especially those that integrate physical parts or operate in real environments. In this paper, we focus on the Digital Twins of adaptive systems, which are particularly complex to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Julien Deantoni , Paula Muñoz , Cláudio Gomes , Clark Verbrugge , Rakshit Mittal , Robert Heinrich , Stijn Bellis , Antonio Vallecillo

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 have attracted a great deal of recent attention from a wide range of fields. A basic requirement for digital twins of nonlinear dynamical systems is the ability to generate the system evolution and predict potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Ying-Cheng Lai

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 energy sector's digital transformation brings mutually dependent communication and energy infrastructure, tightening the relationship between the physical and the digital world. Digital twins (DT) are the key concept for this. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Wouter Zomerdijk , Peter Palensky , Tarek AlSkaif , Pedro P. Vergara

We articulate the design imperatives for machine-learning based digital twins for nonlinear dynamical systems subject to external driving, which can be used to monitor the ``health'' of the target system and anticipate its future collapse.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-10-13 Ling-Wei Kong , Yang Weng , Bryan Glaz , Mulugeta Haile , Ying-Cheng Lai

Digital twins are sophisticated software systems for the representation, monitoring, and control of cyber-physical systems, including automotive, avionics, smart manufacturing, and many more. Existing definitions and reference models of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jerome Pfeiffer , Jingxi Zhang , Benoit Combemale , Judith Michael , Bernhard Rumpe , Manuel Wimmer , Andreas Wortmann

Digital Twins (DTs) are virtual representations of physical objects or processes that can collect information from the real environment to represent, validate, and replicate the physical twin's present and future behavior. The DTs are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-26 S M Mostaq Hossain , Sohag Kumar Saha , Shampa Banik , Trapa Banik

Agentic AI has taken on the role of assistant, collaborator, and decision-support tool. We argue the next role on that list is more personal: you. These are digital twins of each individual -- twin agents -- representing their knowledge,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hugo Andersson , Niklas Elmqvist

The increased use of software in the operation and management of telecommunication networks has moved the industry one step closer to realizing autonomous network operation. One consequence of this shift is the significantly increased need…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shenjia Ding , David Flynn , Paul Harvey

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

A digital twin is a powerful tool that can help monitor and optimize physical assets in real-time. Simply put, it is a virtual representation of a physical asset, enabled through data and simulators, that can be used for a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Elias Mohammed Elfarri , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

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