The first step, Ochoa explains, would be to model the built environment: the buildings and rooms. Then, embed a simulator — which, in the case of higher education, would be an agent-based simulator — ...

Healthcare is one of the most complex operating systems in the world. Even when occupancy looks steady, the ground is constantly shifting. With a national average length of stay of about 4.7 days 1, a ...

A human digital twin is a digital version of you that can represent your expertise, knowledge and even your communication ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the last decade, the concept of a digital twin has both excited and perplexed the ...

Digital twins, emerging within organizations of all types, are ripe for a technological makeover. These digital representations of physical facilities or objects on which users can simulate outcomes ...

Digital twins have great promise -- the ability to simulate and improve the performance of systems, machines, facilities, and even entire ecosystems, at relatively low cost with software. "In today's ...

When city leaders talk about making a town "smart," they're usually talking about urban digital twins. These are essentially ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...