Pethuru Raj PhD works as chief architect and vice president of site reliability engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. Bangalore. Previously he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Bangalore. He worked as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained more than 18 years of IT industry experience. He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has authored and edited 18 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as Containerized Clouds; Big, Fast, and Streaming Data Analytics; Microservices architecture (MSA); Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms; Blockchain Technology; The Internet of Things; and Edge Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. Dr. Preetha Evangeline David is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. She holds a PhD from Anna University, Chennai in the area of Cloud Computing. She has published many research papers and Patents focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin Technology, High Performance Computing, Computational Intelligence and Data Structures. She is currently working on Multi-disciplinary areas in collaboration with other technologies to solve socially relevant challenges and provide solutions to human problems.

• 1. Stepping into the digitally instrumented and interconnected eraPethuru Raj and Jenn-Wei Lin2. Digital twin technology for "smart manufacturing"Preetha David and Anandhakumar3. The fog computing/edge computing to leverage digital twinJ. Pushpa and Kalayani4. The industry use cases for the Digital Twin ideaPeter Augustine5. Digital twin: Empowering edge devices to be intelligentVidya Hungud and Senthil Kumar Arunachalam6. The industrial internet of things (IIoT)Sathyan Munirathinam7. The growing role of integrated and insightful big and real-time data analytics platformsIndrakumari Ranganathan, Poongodi Thangamuthu, Suresh Palanimuthu and Balamurugan Balusamy8. Air pollution control model using machine learning and IoT techniquesChetan Shetty, B.J. Sowmya, S. Seema and K.G. Srinivasa9. The human body: A digital twin of the cyber physical systemsJanet Barnabas and Pethuru Raj10. Impact of cloud security in digital twinSusila Nagarajan, Sruthi Anand and Usha Sakthivel11. Digital twin in consumer choice modelingD. Sudaroli Vijayakumar12. Digital twin: The industry use casesPethuru Raj and Chellammal Surianarayanan13. Machine learning and deep learning algorithms on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT)P. Ambika14. Energy-efficient edge based real-time healthcare support systemS. Abirami and P. Chitra