Digital twin (DT) is an emerging concept that is gaining attention in various industries. It
refers to the ability to clone a physical object (PO) into a software counterpart. The …

Enterprises are confronted with new customer requirements and challenged by global
competition leading to fundamental changes of today's industry. Against this background, at …

It may be tempting for researchers to stick to incremental extensions of their current work to
plan future research activities. Yet there is also merit in realizing the grand challenges in …

The present research proposes a roadmap to the excellence of operations for sustainable
reverse supply chain/logistics by the joint implementation of principles of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) …

In the last few years, many smart objects found in the physical world are interconnected and
communicate through the existing internet infrastructure which creates a global network …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoTs) enables coupling of digital and physical objects using
worthy communication technologies and introduces a future vision where computing …

Today, internet and device ubiquity are paramount in individual, formal and societal
considerations. Next generation communication technologies, such as Blockchains (BC) …

Recently, there has been an increase in studies relating to the Internet of Things (IoT) in
various fields, such as smart cities, smart homes, smart factories, and healthcare. In an IoT …

Smart cities have emerged as a result of smart interconnections of people, processes, data,
and things, representing an excellent case study of the Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm …

The disruptive potentials of the Internet of Things (IoT) entails multifaceted requirements and
development issues (large scale deployments, heterogeneity, cyberphysicality …