Conceptualizing Digital Twins

R. Eramo; F. Bordeleau; Benoit Combemale; M. van den Brand; Manuel Wimmer; Andreas Wortmann

doi:10.1109/MS.2021.3130755

Conceptualizing Digital Twins

R. Eramo, F. Bordeleau, Benoit Combemale, M. van den Brand, Manuel Wimmer, Andreas Wortmann

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

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Abstract

Digital Twins (DTs) are appearing everywhere, in agriculture, construction, engineering, production, and medicine, to mention just a few prominent examples. Research and industry have produced various definitions,1,2 ranging from underspecified (digital replica or virtual counterpart), overly narrow (virtual representation based on augmented reality technology), to utopian (complete digital representation) approaches. The concepts found in the literature range between 1) high-fidelity design-time models used for design-space exploration, dimensioning, or validation, and 2) software systems used to monitor, comprehend, and optimize the behavior of another system during its runtime.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-46
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	39
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2021.3130755
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022

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202017 Embedded systems
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102016 IT security
102020 Medical informatics
102022 Software development
102027 Web engineering
102034 Cyber-physical systems
509026 Digitalisation research
502032 Quality management
502050 Business informatics
503015 Subject didactics of technical sciences

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Digital Transformation

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