Tag Archives: CDT

In the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative -DRI- we have spearheaded the concept of Cognitive Digital Twins -CDTs. Note that Cognitive Digital Twins have been around for a few years now, probably their first “mentioning” can be attributed to IBM (2018). What singles out the contribution of DRI is the use …

The Pandemic Impact on the Gig Economy The recent pandemic hit the Gig Economy and possibly changed its evolution in two main ways: Emphasised the critical work environment with low societal protection Boosted the Gig Economy with, possibly, lasting effects Critical Work Environment The insecurity of work intrinsic in the …

Decoupling of CDT knowledge from the physical person The decoupling of a CDT from its physical twin can be leveraged in two opposite ways, as a proxy. and as an augmentation of the physical twin (it makes most sense when applied to a person) Both generate economic value and biz …

Multiplication of use of knowledge through instantiation A CDT is a software entity (data and, possibly, processing capability at stage III and IV) and as such it can be instantiated, i.e. copies can be created and activated at the same time. However, the nature of a CDT (as well, although …

Exploitation of knowledge in the cyberspace A CDT at stage IV becomes a knowledge entity that can be sold as a whole or by granting access to a subset of its knowledge space, through APIs. A CDT can advertise itself, its “executable” knowledge in various ways and there will likely …

– Improve cooperative working exploiting complementary knowledge CDTs can be considered as active knowledge repositories: the keypoint is “active”. They can establish relations with other CDTs and explore the cyberspace to become aware of new knowledge and how that knowledge complement / obsolete their own knowledge. Within a firm there …

Automation of Everything Automation has been a sort of mantra in the last fifty years, robots and assembly lines in manufacturing, routing in telecommunication networks, automation of medical exams analyses, more recently automation in coding of software … There is hardly an area that has not been affected by automation …