From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond

Franz Barachini is Associate Professor emeritus of Computer Science at the Technical University Vienna as well as the former head of the artificial intelligence department of Alcatel Research Labs in Vienna. In addition, he is co-founder of ICKM, the International Council of Knowledge Management.  Christian Stary is Professor and Head of the Institute of Business Informatics – Communications Engineering at the University of Linz. He serves as scientific advisor and developer of methodological approaches to cyber-physical systems, and acts as principal investigator of several international academic and industry projects in distributed systems engineering, digital learning support, and knowledge management.

• 1. Major Historical Landmarks in Computer Science.- Part I: Digital Twins: Advent and Trans-human Development.- 2. Background and Foundations.- 3. Beyond Data: Unifying Behavior Modeling.- Part II: Social Behavior of Artificial Agents.- 4. Background and Motivation.- 5. Simulation Methods and Game Theory.- 6. Social Dilemmas and Problems of Social Order.- 7. Emotional Modeling with Spatial Games.- 8. Agent-Based Stochastic Simulation of Emotions.- Part III: A Symbiosis.- 9. System-of-Systems Thinking.- 10. Provision of Information as Relational Task.- 11. Enabling Contextual Adaptation.- 12. Embodying Social Behavior.- 13. How to Create Digital Selves.