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Smart Services in the Physical World: Digital Twins

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Comprehensive, independently operating digital representations of physical assets, provisioned and manipulated through standardized interaction patterns, dissolve between the tangible and virtual world. Real-world developments are reflected in digital models and vice versa. The concept of digital twins combines these facets to integrated entities, specifying the description, appearance, and behavior of real-world entities in virtual models. This chapter explains how smart services enact as digital twins but also how they interact in flexible, loosely coupled networks.

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This work has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the research project “Industrial Data Space Plus” (grant no. 01IS17031), the EU H2020 project “BOOST4.0” (grant no. 780732) and the EU H2020 project “COGNITWIN” (grant no. 870130).

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Stojanovic, L., Bader, S.R. (2020). Smart Services in the Physical World: Digital Twins. In: Maleshkova, M., Kühl, N., Jussen, P. (eds) Smart Service Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58182-4_12

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