4th International Workshop on Architecting and Engineering Digital Twins (AEDT)

Co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) March 31 - April 4, 2025, Odense, Denmark

The AEDT workshop addresses the role of software architecture in designing, modelling and maintaining digital twins as well as the role of digital twins in supporting the software architecture process.

Systems and software architecture practices make heavy use of modeling, using methodologies to reason about a system already in the design phase. However, during operation (or runtime), the role of software architecture and models has been much less studied. Therefore, more research is needed to bridge the gap between system and software architecture, modeling for digitals twins and the physical world, as identified in several industrial initiatives.

This includes system and simulation modeling that allows proper visualization and simulation of the systems to be developed early in the design phase, but also the integration of data collected during operation of the systems already developed back into the models used during design, thus supporting continuous engineering. In addition to these challenges for today's systems, future software and complex systems will increasingly require adaptive architectures and models that continuously adjust their behavior at runtime.
For example, in the Industry 4.0 domain, the term cognitive digital twin has been coined to categorize digital twins that receive sensor data, reason about this data, and make decisions using AI technologies. Moreover, in safety-critical domains, there is a strong need to ensure that these autonomous decisions based on AI techniques such as neural networks do not lead to safety incidents.


Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Design and architecture of collaboration platforms to enable the joint engineering and maintenance of cyber- physical asset virtual replicas.
  • Architectural integration of system modeling, AI, and simulation as fundamental digital twin building blocks.
  • Model-based life cycle management and maintenance of digital twins in symbiosis with their cyber-physical assets.
  • Continuous quality assurance for cyber-physical assets and their architectures through digital twin monitoring, testing and control.
  • The conceptual and architectural modeling of socio- techno-economic characteristics of large business and societal systems, including uncertainty, dynamism, and emergentism in space and time.
  • Innovative solutions for describing (and possibly generating from models), maintaining, and co-evolving digital twin and physical twin architectures, as well as cyber-physical architectures that include digital twins.
  • Evaluation of industrial practices related to both reference and concrete modeling of architectures for digital twins and with digital twins, e.g., in manufacturing, automotive, construction, healthcare in the context of Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0.
  • The relationship between digital twin modeling, architectures and continuous engineering practices.
  • The role of digital twins as enablers of au- tonomous systems.
  • Epistemology of digital twins, aiming at properly charac- terize digital twins to understand what differentiates them from traditional executable models.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. They will be evaluated based on originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop.

Please consider the following formats:

  • Full research papers (12 pages + 2 extra pages for references), describing a novel idea or approach about software architecture techniques and solutions for or with digital twins
  • Short position papers (8 pages + 2 extra pages for references), describing promising research actions not fully validated
  • Industry papers as case studies (8 pages + 2 extra pages for references) about software architecture solutions for or with digital twins partially or fully validated in a real industry setting, respectively lessons learned from industry
  • Industrial talk submissions: Besides the deadlines for peer-reviewed submissions, the workshop will accept industry talk submissions. Their selection will be managed directly by the workshop chairs. Please note that industry talk submissions will not be included in the proceedings

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Special Issue (IST). Workshop papers submitted for the post-proceedings will undergo a minor revision cycle where the extensions with respect to the workshop versions will be checked by the reviewers.


Important Dates


Keynote Speaker

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Invited Speaker

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Track Chairs

  • Ass.-Prof. Philipp Zech, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Dr. Souvik Barat, TCS Research, Pune, India
  • Dr. Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - Univ. Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France
  • Prof. Dr. Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Dr. Ruth Breu, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Prof. Dr. Tony Clark, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
  • Prof. Dr. Balbir Barn, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK
  • Dr. Nour Ali, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
  • Vinay Kulkarni, TCS Research, Pune, India

Program Committee

  • Georg Fröch (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Alexandra Jäger (University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • Simon Kranzer (FH Salzburg, Austria)
  • Aditya Paranjape (TCS Research, India)
  • Clemens Sauerwein (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Enis Kararslan (Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye)
  • Mark van-den-Brand (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Frank Schnicke (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • Norha Villegas (ICESI University, Pance, Colombia)
  • Manuel Wimmer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria)
  • Andreas Wortmann (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
  • Marco Jahn (Eclipse Foundation, Darmstadt, Germany)
  • Rafael Capilla (King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain)
  • Elisa Nakagawa (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
  • Thomas Kuhn (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • Andreas Morgenstern (Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany)
  • Loek Cleophas (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Ramona Trestian (Middlesex University, United Kingdom)
  • Huan Nguyen (Middlesex University, United Kingdom)
  • Massimo Tisi (IMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004), France)
  • Thais Batista (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
  • Everton Cavalcante (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
  • Bentley Oakes (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)