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Fig. 3 – Required time for digital twin creation and SIoT graph initializa‑
tion varying the number of CLOs
Fig. 5 – SIoT lookup time varying the number of CLO friends searched
for replicated vs partitioned memory mode

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work was partially supported by the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation program under the COG‑LO project (grant
agreement no. 769141).

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