The Foundation for Digital Twins: An Architectural, Technical, and Software Perspective

Enables readers to understand the concept of digital twins from an engineering perspective

The Foundation for Digital Twins describes the technical characterizations of digital twins and explores the specifics of software and algorithms that facilitate a wide range of digital twin applications. The book discusses gaps between the current and future software solutions that must be put in place in order to fully exploit the digital twin capabilities, shows the relationship between digital twins and AI, provides an overall systematic approach to the construction and operation of digital twins, and delves into state-of-the-art applications of digital twins in smart cities and those focused on networking and cultural heritage.

This book includes information on:

• Descriptive, predictive, and behavior models in the context of digital twins
• How to design a digital twin, covering distributed, interactive, top-down, and bottom-up approaches
• Centralized, edge-cloud, and totally distributed digital twin deployment
• Digital twins as an integral part of the metaverse and the most promising future applications of digital twins

The Foundation for Digital Twins is a timely, essential reference on the subject for professionals and researchers in software development and those involved in the implementation and management of digital twin platforms, frameworks, and related applications.

ROBERTO MINERVA is an Associate Professor with the Service Architecture Laboratory, Institut Mines Telecom―Telecom Sud Paris, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France. From 2016 to 2018, he was the Technical Project Leader of SoftFIRE, a European Project devoted to the experimentation of NFV, SDN, and edge computing. He was Chairperson of the IEEE IoT Initiative from 2014 to 2016.

NOEL CRESPI is a Professor and MSc Programme Director, leading the Data Intelligence and Communication Engineering laboratory (DICE) at the Institut Mines Telecom―Telecom Sud Paris, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France, where he has been since 2002. He coordinates the standardisation activities for Institut Mines-Telecom at ETSI, 3GPP and ITU-T.