Table 1 Listing of acronyms with description

From: Survey, taxonomy, and emerging paradigms of societal digital twins for public health preparedness

Acronym

Description

Acronym

Description

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ABM

Agent Based Model

AR

Augmented Reality

CA

Cellular Automaton/Automata

CDSDT

Clinical Decision Support Digital Twin

CDT

Cloud Digital Twin

CPDT

Comprehensive Personalized Digital Twin

CPS

Cyber Physical Systems

CT scans

Computed Tomography scans

DBMS

Database Management Systems

DT

Digital Twin

DTaaS

Digital Twin as a Service

EDT

Edge Digital Twin

EHR

Electronic Health Records

EP

Electrophysiology

FDT

Fog Digital Twin

FHIR protocol

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources protocol

FL

Federated Learning

GSDF

General Survey Design Framework

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

HMaaSS

Healthcare Metaverse as a Smart Service

ICTs

Information and Communication Technologies

IDT

Intelligent Digital Twin

IoMT

Internet of Medical Things

IoT

Internet of Things

ML

Machine Learning

MR

Mixed Reality

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

NPIs

Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

PDT

Personalized Digital Twin

PRISMA

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

R&D

Research and Development

RMDT

Resource Management Digital Twin

SDL

Specification and Description Language

SDLPS

Specification and Description Language Parallel Simulator

SDT

Societal Digital Twin

SDTaaSS

Societal Digital Twin as a Smart Service

SDTICom

SDT for Infection Combat

SDTICon

SDT for Infection Control

SDTII

SDT for Infection Initiation

SDTIR

SDT for Infection Recovery

SDTIS

SDT for Infection Spread

SHM

Societal Healthcare Metaverse

SQL

Structured Query Language

SEIR(D) model

Susceptible Exposed Infected Recovered (Deceased) model

TCN

Time Convolutional Network

VR

Virtual Reality