Digital Twins

Digital Twins: Core Principles and AI Integration provides a comprehensive overview of digital twin technology, a cutting-edge innovation that bridges the physical and digital worlds. As digital twin technology evolves, its integration with various advanced digital solutions is becoming essential for achieving real-time insights and autonomous decision-making. Challenges include understanding the interoperability of these technologies, managing data complexity, ensuring security, and optimizing for low-latency environments. The authors demystify digital twin technology, providing a clear framework for understanding how to effectively implement and utilize digital twins. The book addresses common challenges such as data integration, security, scalability, and the alignment of digital twin models with actual physical processes. After presenting core concepts of digital twins for software engineering, the book progresses to a section on integration with advanced digital solutions such as AI, IoT, Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, and Extended Reality (XR). Next, the authors provide readers with a thorough presentation of digital twins applications in a variety of settings and industry/research topics. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of challenges and solutions, along with future trends in digital twins research and development.