Digital Twinning: Trends Challenging the Future

Dear Colleagues,

Digital twinning has matured thanks to its profound proliferation across diverse human activity domains. Therefore, we believe contemporary digital and virtual twinning trends will challenge the future more than the future will challenge them. It is not about how the future will streamline digital twinning but how digital twinning will transform the future. This paradigmatic shift drives this Special Issue's attitude. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence empowering;
• Human digital twins;
• Digital twinning-integrated development environments and DevOps;
• Digital twin software;
• Hyper-asset twinning (system-of-systems, cyber–physical systems; socio-technology systems);
• Modeling and simulations, fidelity and synchronization challenges, complexity reduction, network digital twins, digital twin definition language;
• Repository management, smart data protection, security and privacy;
• Standardization, services, and interoperability issues;
• Real-time decision making through edge computing (automotive, robotics, metaverse, agent-based);
• Domain-specific digital twinning challenges in the following smart applications:
  
  • Manufacturing;
  • Cities and communities;
  • Education (teaching, learning, training, and performing);
  • Healthcare;
  • Logistics;
  • Communications (4G, 5G, and 6G);
  • Space industry;
  • Agriculture;
  • Arts and engineering animation.

Prof. Dr. Branko Rade Perišić
Dr. Ana Perišić
Guest Editors

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