# Semantic Interoperability in Federated Digital Twin Systems: A Systematic Review Through the Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model

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Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02125>)

Author: Manonmani Sekar, Nasim Nezamoddini

Published: 2026-11-03T05:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [arXiv: Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/arxiv-artificial-intelligence.md>), [arXiv: Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/arxiv-software-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Data Space](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-space.md>), [Requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/requirements.md>)

Tags: [cs-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cs-ai.md>), [cs-se](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cs-se.md>), [cs-sy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cs-sy.md>), [digital-twin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-twin.md>), [eess-sy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eess-sy.md>), [federated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/federated.md>), [interoperability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interoperability.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [semantic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/semantic.md>)

## AI overview

The review found no published system among its 32 included studies that detects and repairs broken mappings between independently owned digital twins while they operate. It screened 5,833 records and examined 119 full texts. Cross-company matching was studied without checking whether a match remained valid, while detection and repair of changed meanings appeared only within single-company systems. The authors distill this gap into six requirements for systems claiming run-time semantic interoperability, illustrated with a running example.

## Source excerpt

arXiv:2611.02125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When two companies connect their digital twins, software models of their plants kept up to date with live data, each twin must translate the other's data into its own terms, and that translation rule, called a mapping, can stop being correct when one company changes the meaning of its data without telling the other. This PRISMA 2020 systematic review screened 5,833 records and read 119 full texts to determine whether any published system detects such a broken mapping and repairs it while the twins operate. In all 32 included studies the mapping is fixed before operation, and the two ingredients of run-time repair appear only separately: cross-company matching without any check that the match still holds, and detection and repair of changed meaning within a single company. The review turns this gap into six requirements, each illustrated on one running example, that a system claiming run-time semantic interoperability between independently owned twins should meet.