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On the Challenges of Integrating Digital Twins
Combemale, Benoit
, Kienzle, Jörg, Mussbacher, Gunter, Archambault, Pascal, Bruel, Jean-Michel, Burgueño, Lola, Cheng, Betty H.C., Cleophas, Loek, Engels, Gregor, Foures, Damien, Klikovits, Stefan
, Kulkarni, Vinay, Michael, Judith
, Mosser, Sebastien, Sahraoui, Houari, Syriani, Eugene and Wortmann, Andreas
(2025)
On the Challenges of Integrating Digital Twins.
In: Int. Conf. on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf'25), 5.-10.10.2025, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 22 Dec 2025 06:31
Conference or workshop item
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.78369
Abstract
Digital Twins (DTs) are a key technology for smart ecosystems to provide accurate digital representation of their constituents, e.g., smart buildings, farms, transportation, and citizens, as well as synchronization between the digital and the real subject, and the exploration of what-if scenarios and tradeoff reasoning. To cope with emerging complex socio-technical ecosystems, we need to bring ...
Digital Twins (DTs) are a key technology for smart ecosystems to provide accurate digital representation of their constituents, e.g., smart buildings, farms, transportation, and citizens, as well as synchronization between the digital and the real subject, and the exploration of what-if scenarios and tradeoff reasoning. To cope with emerging complex socio-technical ecosystems, we need to bring DTs together, which is a challenging endeavor. After giving a historical overview of system adaptation, we review the many enabling technologies that can help with DT integration. Using a smart city as an illuminating example to highlight scenarios that require integration of DTs, we discuss a model-based conceptual framework that identifies DT integration strategies and elaborate on nine key integration challenges that still need to be addressed. We call on the DT community to investigate these challenges.
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| Item type | Conference or workshop item (Paper) | ||||
| Publisher: | IEEE | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | Unknown | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 243-249 | ||||
| Date | October 2025 | ||||
| Institutions | Informatics and Data Science > General computer science > Chair of Programming and Software Engineering (Prof. Dr. Judith Michael) | ||||
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| Keywords | Digital Twin, Integration, Challenges | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | No | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-783692 | ||||
| Item ID | 78369 |
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