Digital Twin Driven Intelligent Systems and Emerging Metaverse

This book covers the notion of the digital twin, which has the potential to alter the way systems are governed and manufactured. It also addresses the metaverse as an emerging technology with its roots in literature, cross-platform avatars, and artificial intelligence-oriented cybersecurity issues. The untapped potential of the metaverse and digital twins as enabling technologies for the next-generation industries is emphasized in various chapters.  Digital twin technology enables manufacturers to comprehend their products throughout product design better, integrate simulation, tracking, and optimization in real-time, and appropriately analyze operations. Especially for complicated products or systems, testing on a digital twin is more efficient (more accessible, quicker, less error-prone, and less expensive). The product is examined in its virtual version before it is displayed in the actual world. Additionally, the digital twin minimizes operational expenses and increases the longevity of equipment and assets. By prolonging the life of the thing, they represent and enhance its working efficiency; it may minimize operating costs and prospective capital spending. The digital twin idea is becoming a reality as it has begun to be used in several industries, including energy, manufacturing, construction, transportation, aerospace, smart cities, healthcare, cyber security, finance, and agriculture. Academic and industrial experts highlighted the most compelling use cases of digital twins and metaverses and the challenges inherent in their implementation. Readers who want to make more effective systems will find the book useful. Also, people who want to get an idea and vision of how technology will change our lives will benefit from this book.

Enis Karaarslan, Assist. Prof. Dr., Mugla Sitki Kocman University (MSKU), Department of Computer Engineering, Mugla, TürkiyeHe is one of the founders of the Artificial Intelligence and Cyber ​​Security disciplines at MSKU. His research areas are; computer networks, cybersecurity, blockchain, data science, digital twin, and Metaverse. He provides consultancy to companies and research projects in the industry. He founded NetSecLab and the Metaverse research labs. He is the chief editor of the "Journal of Metaverse''. He formed MSKU Blockchain Research Group (MSKU BcRG) and has been working on the potential of blockchain since 2017. He has given various seminars and training on blockchain technology at multiple events. He taught blockchain courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and acted as a thesis advisor. He has several publications and a patent on decentralized technologies. He founded MSKU Metaverse Research Group (MSKU MvRG) and has been conducting interdisciplinary studies there since 2021. Ömer AYDIN, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, TürkiyeÖmer Aydın received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University of Turkey in 2007. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey, in 2014 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, in 2019. He has been an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey. His research interests include random number generation, lightweight authentication protocols, cryptography, digital twin, cyber-physical systems, security of RFID systems, and other lightweight devices. He is a member of Dokuz Eylul University Security Research Group and the founder of the Izmir Academy Association. Assoc. Prof. Ömer Aydın is also a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).  Umit Cali, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayDr. Umit Cali has more than 20 years international experience in the fields of energy systems, data science, blockchain technologies, ICT, energy markets, and economics as a professor, an entrepreneur, a researcher, and a CTO. Dr. Cali is also the co-founder of US (NSF SBIR funded) and Europe-based technology startup companies which are active in advanced energy informatics and blockchain. He is working as an associate professor of Energy Informatics (AI & Blockchain) in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is serving as the vice chair of IEEE Blockchain in Energy Standards WG (P2418.5), the chair of IEEE TEMS Special Interest Group on Energy DLT, and an IEEE senior member. Umit is the leading author of the “Digitalization of Power Markets and Systems using Energy Informatics” book. Moharram Challenger, Assist. Prof. Dr., University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, BelgiumProf. Moharram Challenger received his Ph