Develo** the urban comfort index: Advancing liveability analytics with a multidimensional approach and explainable artificial intelligence

B Lei, P Liu, X Liang, Y Yan, F Biljecki - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025 - Elsevier
Urban comfort is a means of measuring the dynamic quality of urban life as an outcome of
the interaction between humans and urban environments, capturing spatio-temporal …

What is a Digital Twin Anyway? Deriving the Definition for the Built Environment from over 15,000 Scientific Publications

M Abdelrahman, E Macatulad, B Lei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The concept of digital twins has attracted significant attention across various domains,
particularly within the built environment. However, there is a sheer volume of definitions and …

Application of human-centric digital twins: Predicting outdoor thermal comfort distribution in Singapore using multi-source data and machine learning

X Liu, Z Gou, C Yuan - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
In the face of global climate warming, outdoor thermal comfort in urban settings is
increasingly critical. However, accurately predicting residents' thermal perceptions during …

[HTML][HTML] A Study on Guidelines for Constructing Building Digital Twin Data

D Jeong, T Jeong, C Lee, Y Choi, D Lee - Buildings, 2025 - mdpi.com
In South Korea, to systematically share and operate data related to the national level of the
digital twin, a reference model standard for the National Digital Twin (NDT) concept was …

Integrating Social Dimensions into Urban Digital Twins: A Review and Proposed Framework for Social Digital Twins

S Qanazi, E Leclerc, P Bosredon - Smart Cities, 2025 - mdpi.com
The rapid evolution of smart city technologies has expanded digital twin (DT) applications
from industrial to urban contexts. However, current urban digital twins (UDTs) remain …