Abstract
Digital Twin is a promising paradigm to support the development of socio-technical systems for the digital transformation of society. For example, smart cities and healthcare applications gain advantages from this new paradigm. Currently, researchers are investigating methodologies that exploit Digital Twins as general-purpose abstractions for complex modelling and simulation. Taking inspiration from the Social Practice theory, this paper explores the idea of explicitly representing the physical and social context in socio-technical systems. To this aim, we introduce the concept of digital practice as an additional brick of a methodology for modelling and implementing socio-technical systems via digital twins and agents. We illustrate this preliminary idea by exploiting an assistance scenario for the elderly.
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Sabatucci, L., Augello, A., Caggianese, G., Gallo, L. (2023). Coordinating Systems of Digital Twins with Digital Practices. In: Malvone, V., Murano, A. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14282. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43264-4_26
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