Digital twins: a meta-review on their conceptualization, application, and reference architecture
- The concept of digital twins (DTs) is receiving increasing attention in research and management practice. However, various facets around the concept are blurry, including conceptualization, application areas, and reference architectures for DTs. A review of preliminary results regarding the emerging research output on DTs is required to promote further research and implementation in organizations. To do so, this paper asks four research questions: (1) How is the concept of DTs defined? (2) Which application areas are relevant for the implementation of DTs? (3) How is a reference architecture for DTs conceptualized? and (4) Which directions are relevant for further research on DTs? With regard to research methods, we conduct a meta-review of 14 systematic literature reviews on DTs. The results yield important insights for the current state of conceptualization, application areas, reference architecture, and future research directions on DTs.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Hertweck, Dieter; Rossmann, Alexander |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-40369 |
| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79887 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9981331-5-7 |
| Erschienen in: | Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022), 4-7 January 2022, virtual event/Maui |
| Publisher: | University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
| Place of publication: | Honolulu |
| Document Type: | Conference proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Tag: | conceptualization; digital twins; reference architecture; systematic literature review |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 4518 |
| Last Page: | 4527 |
| DDC classes: | 004 Informatik |
| Open access?: | Ja |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
