Digital Twins: Potentials, Ethical Issues, and Limitations

Helbing, Dirk; Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Javier Argota

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4167963

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“…We do not intend to take sides on these issues, as they are matters that societies, associations, and governments need to discuss and resolve. Nonetheless, with the increasing significance of digital twins, the topic of risks and ethical implications is also receiving more attention in research [67], [68].…”

Section: Other Use Cases Risks and Ethical Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

Barbie,

Hasselbring

2024

IEEE Access

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The transformation to Industry 4.0 also transforms the processes of developing intelligent manufacturing production systems. Digital twins may be employed to advance the development of these new (embedded) software systems. However, there is no consensual definition of what a digital twin is. In this paper, we provide an overview of the current state of the digital twin concept and formalize the digital twin concept using the Object-Z notation. This formalization includes the concepts of physical twins, digital models, digital templates, digital threads, digital shadows, digital twins, and digital twin prototypes. The relationships between all these concepts are visualized as class diagrams using the Unified Modeling Language. Our digital twin prototype approach supports engineers in the development and automated testing of complex embedded software systems. This approach enables engineers to test embedded software systems in a virtual context without the need of a connection to a physical object. In continuous integration / continuous deployment pipelines, such digital twin prototypes can be used for automated integration testing and, thus, allow for an agile verification and validation process. In this paper, we demonstrate and report on the application and implementation of a digital twin using the example of two real-world field studies (ocean observation systems and smart farming). For independent replication and extension of our approach by other researchers, we provide a laboratory study published open source on GitHub.

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Section: Other Use Cases Risks and Ethical Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

Barbie,

Hasselbring

2024

IEEE Access

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“…), and health and safety (for telehealth and for prediction of viral spread) (Apte & Spanos, 2021). The study of limitations and challenges of digital twins -such as threats of technocratic control, impacts on human rights and human dignity, and lack of protection mechanisms to prevent unintended consequences (Helbing & Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, 2022) is also ongoing.…”

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“…Second, if DTC does not immediately bring the expected benefits, its development may be limited or even stopped. More generally, digital twins for cities (and even nations) are characterized by increasing levels of complexity as the amount of data, networking, and interconnectivity increase, making it difficult to build accurate models, especially when the desire is to capture human behavior, opinions, preferences, and interactions (Helbing & Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, 2022).…”

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Building Digital Resilience in Major Shocks: How Ukrainian Organizations Enact Digital Transformation in Times of War

Berbyuk Lindström,

Razmerita,

Prokopenko

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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This paper describes the potential for developing a digital twin of society -a dynamic model that can be used to observe, analyze, and predict the evolution of various societal aspects.Such a digital twin can help governmental agencies and policy makers in interpreting trends, understanding challenges, and making decisions regarding investments or policies necessary to support societal development and ensure future prosperity. The paper reviews related work regarding the digital twin paradigm and its applications. The paper presents a motivating case study -an analysis of opportunities and challenges faced by the German federal employment agency, Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), proposes solutions using digital twins, and describes initial proofs of concept for such solutions.

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Developing Digital-Environmental Sustainability

Ruiu,

Ragnedda

2024

Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities

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Digital Twins: Potentials, Ethical Issues, and Limitations

Cited by 4 publications

References 58 publications

From Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

From Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

Building Digital Resilience in Major Shocks: How Ukrainian Organizations Enact Digital Transformation in Times of War

Developing Digital-Environmental Sustainability

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