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Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Sabah Suhail, Rasheed Hussain, Raja Jurdak, Alma Oracevic, Khaled Salah, Choong Seon Hong, Raimundas Matulevicius
Summary: Industrial processes rely on trustworthy data for decision-making, and blockchain and digital twin technologies can help overcome challenges related to data storage, dissemination, and maintenance.
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Sangeen Khan, Sehat Ullah, Habib Ullah Khan, Inam Ur Rehman
Summary: This research proposes a real-time remote health monitoring system using virtual reality and Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), which creates a virtual replica of the patient's status through digital twins and allows robots to collect patient data in the real environment. The system provides a user interface for medical examination and prevents direct interaction between medical staff and infected patients, ensuring the safety of medical staff.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Sabah Suhail, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Raja Jurdak, Rasheed Hussain, Raimundas Matulevicius, Davor Svetinovic
Summary: This article presents a blockchain-based digital twin framework for securing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). By leveraging digital twins for monitoring, simulating, predicting, and optimizing CPS, the security of CPS can be enhanced. However, the reliability of digital twins depends on the integrity and security of data. This article proposes a trusted digital twin framework for securing CPS and demonstrates its feasibility through a proof of concept.
COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY
(2022)
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Engineering, Chemical
Islam Asem Salah Abusohyon, Alberto Crupi, Faezeh Bagheri, Flavio Tonelli
Summary: The utilization of Digital Twins in business processes is a method to assist companies in improving performance in alignment with technological developments. Research on the creative phase of Digital Twins emphasizes its crucial role in overall outcomes, with a proposed framework continuously preparing systems for changes.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ada Malagnino, Teodoro Montanaro, Mariangela Lazoi, Ilaria Sergi, Angelo Corallo, Luigi Patrono
Summary: Society is increasingly adopting digital solutions to enhance daily activities, while also recognizing the need to limit the negative environmental impact of the built environment for the Earth and people's wellbeing. The Internet of Things and Building Information Modeling offer innovations in various sectors, enabling data sharing, traceability, and integrated management. This study reviews existing research and technological solutions integrating these topics to make the built environment smarter, proposing a comprehensive modular architecture for future works.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Business
Sachin S. Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Harsh Parekh, Venkatesh Mani, Amine Belhadi, Rohit Sharma
Summary: A digital twin is an integration of virtual and physical systems using disruptive technologies to develop sustainable, intelligent manufacturing systems. This paper presents a systematic literature review on digital supply chain twin dimensions with sustainable performance objectives and suggests that advancements in technologies have increased the potential of digital twin applications in the supply chain. The results indicate the need for a digital supply chain twin to include the entire supply chain and provide a framework for implementation.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Chenyu Wang, Zhipeng Cai, Yingshu Li
Summary: As the number of IoT devices increases, sustainability is becoming a bottleneck in industrial systems. Digital twin (DT) technology plays a promising role in facilitating interaction between IoT assets and digital services. However, high-fidelity models of DTs require efficient data flows, which are limited by factors such as data collection strategy and energy supply.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Hamed HaddadPajouh, Ali Dehghantanha, Reza M. Parizi, Mohammed Aledhari, Hadis Karimipour
Summary: Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology that aims to enhance humans' quality of life in various fields. Discussing and analyzing IoT security issues is crucial for developers and enterprises to find appropriate solutions and provide the best possible IoT-based services. This paper provides a comprehensive study on IoT security issues, limitations, requirements, and current and potential solutions, with a focus on classifying potential threats and challenges by an architectural view.
INTERNET OF THINGS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zhihan Lv, Jingyi Wu, Yuxi Li, Houbing Song
Summary: This work aims to explore the cross-layer optimization of digital twins in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and applies it to the hazardous gas leakage boundary tracking in industries. By proposing an algorithm based on parallel optimization framework and establishing a distributed edge computing network, an effective industrial hazardous gas tracking algorithm has been developed. The results show that the algorithm can accurately track the gas boundary and reduce network energy consumption.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Rafael Duque, Crescencio Bravo, Santos Bringas, Daniel Postigo
Summary: This paper introduces the importance of user interfaces for digital twins and presents a technique called ADD for modeling requirements of Human-DT interaction. A study is conducted to assess the feasibility and utility of ADD in designing user interfaces, using the virtualization of a natural space as a case study.
FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE
(2024)
Review
Computer Science, Information Systems
Fernando A. Aires Lins, Marco Vieira
Summary: This article discusses the importance of improving the security level of IoT systems, with a focus on the security issues of IoT gateways. It evaluates and prioritizes security requirements for IoT gateways, detailing current solutions and discussing open challenges.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Harindu Korala, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Ali Yavari
Summary: This article surveys the existing techniques for meeting time-bound requirements in time-sensitive applications in IoT. It presents three sample applications and their requirements, describes the main computation and network resources in IoT, and identifies the challenges in meeting time-bound requirements. The article provides a comprehensive literature review of existing techniques and tools, and proposes research directions for bridging the research gaps in supporting time-sensitive IoT applications.
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu, Isabel Roman-Martinez, Javier Reina-Tosina
Summary: In the healthcare domain, the application of IoT still faces significant challenges, with most approaches failing to consider the specific requirements of this sector.
COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Sabah Suhail, Rasheed Hussain, Raja Jurdak, Choong Seon Hong
Summary: This article introduces a blockchain-based framework for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and discusses the integration of digital twins and blockchain to address data management and security issues. The article also identifies challenges faced by the IIoT and suggests future research directions.
IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Bin He, Hangyu Mao
Summary: This paper discusses the application of digital twin technology in low-carbon product design, proposing a data collection method based on the Internet of Things to enhance the accuracy of product design. Additionally, a three-layer architecture model of product sustainability digital twin is proposed to achieve closed-loop sustainable design.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Joao Caramujo, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Shaghayegh Monfared, Andre Ribeiro, Pavel Calado, Travis Breaux
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Dusan Savic
Summary: This paper discusses the textual representation of data entity elements in requirements specifications, focusing on textual representation methods for data entities, attributes, data types, constraints, and clusters within a system. The paper provides concrete examples and supports the discussion with three linguistic styles to help produce better technical documentation.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jose Farinha, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Summary: This paper highlights the importance and flexibility of UML templates, pointing out the inefficient usage of UML templates in practice due to misunderstandings and lack of support from modelling tools. The paper provides a tutorial-style introduction to UML templates, explaining the core concepts, terminology, and advanced features through illustrative examples.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Pedro Galhardo, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Summary: This article introduces a model-driven approach to generating software business applications by combining rigorous requirement specifications with a specific low-code platform. By analyzing common concepts and implementing model-to-model transformations, this approach provides a solution to the language dependency issue in low-code platforms, enabling platform-independent and readable application specifications.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Luis Olsina
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Antonio M. S. Ferreira, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Ana C. R. Paiva
Summary: This paper focuses on the art of writing user stories and acceptance criteria, as well as their relationships with other related concepts. Through a systematic literature review and analysis supported by a specific example, it provides guidelines and linguistic patterns for writing requirements specifications.
ENASE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Alberto Rodrigues Da Silva
Summary: This paper discusses linguistic patterns and styles for writing technical documentation systematically and consistently, proposing a cohesive set of patterns and styles for writing use cases and scenarios. It also presents 38 practical guidelines and conducts a pilot evaluation session with 24 subjects, showing positive feedback and scores. The adoption of these patterns, styles, and guidelines can help produce better requirements specifications written more systematically and consistently.
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Ana C. R. Paiva, Daniel Maciel, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
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(2020)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Carolina Lisboa Sequeira
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 35TH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC'20)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Joao Seixas, Andre Ribeiro, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ENASE)
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Daniel Maciel, Ana C. R. Paiva, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ENASE)
(2019)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Luis Goncalves, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS INFORMATICS (IEEE CBI 2018), VOL 2
(2018)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Pedro Cecilio Lopes, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
2018 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (QUATIC)
(2018)
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Luis Moreira de Sousa, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
COGENT ENGINEERING
(2018)