Parallel Societies: A Computing Perspective of Social Digital Twins and Virtual–Real Interactions

Abstract

W ELCOME to the first issue of the IEEE TRANS-ACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS (TCSS) of 2020, and Happy New Year to You! We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to our editors, reviewers, authors, and readers for your great support and effort devoted to the TCSS, along with our best wish and hope that everyone has a happy, healthy, and fruitful 2020.In this issue, we publish eight regular articles, a brief discussion on parallel societies, and a special issue entitled "Social Sensing and Privacy Computing in Intelligent Social Systems" is published, which includes 16 articles.I would like to share some latest news of the IEEE TCSS with you. In October 2019, we completed our first five-year review cycle (2014-2018) carried out by the Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee (PRAC), and on November 21, I went to a face-to-face review in Boston, MA, USA (see Fig. 1). Our effort on the TCSS is unanimously and highly recognized by the PRAC, and they concluded that we had made a significant progress over the last two years (2017)(2018).

MetaSocieties in Metaverse: MetaEconomics and MetaManagement for MetaEnterprises and MetaCities

“…MetaSocieties greatly expands the living and working space for humans, and humans can interact with each other not only in real societies but also in MetaSocieties, or even virtual-real interactions. In the future parallel societies, the MetaSocieties and the real societies will run in parallel [17], [18]. That is, any human, enterprise, and city in the real societies will have corresponding virtual human, virtual enterprise, and virtual city, respectively, in the MetaSocieties.…”

BlockNet: Beyond reliable spatial Digital Twins to Parallel Metaverse

“…Digital Twins technology can be integrated with emerging technologies (e.g., Blockchain) 4 , 5 to ensure confidence, traceability, compliance, authenticity, quality, and security. 6 In academia, this technology has been applied to power electronic converter diagnosis, 7 parallel society and social contact, 8 , 9 dynamic capture of robotic information, 10 digital double-edge networks, 11 and other cutting-edge cross-fields. Kapteyn et al.…”

Research on construction technology of real digital twin traffic scene based on edge-cloud collaboration

“…And use the sensors distributed on the road to fully perceive and dynamically monitor the traffic conditions. Data is processed by roadside computing nodes and rendered in the cloud, combined with digital maps, to achieve accurate mapping and information expression of physical traffic in the twin world, so as to achieve complete connection between physical space and virtual space 5,6 .…”