1st International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering

1st International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering

November 23rd, 2022, Middlesex University London, co-located with POEM 2022


As of the growing interest in gestating digital twins for planning and operating long-living, complex cyber-physical assets, information systems research is now faced with new challenges to develop applicable and profitable methodologies and frameworks for engineering and maintaining these virtual replicas of cyber-physical assets for various industrial domains (automotive, construction, systems engineering or facility management). However, the application of digital twins is not restricted to engineering and related domains. Digital twins also bear the capacity of exploring and defining right interventions for large businesses and societal systems to achieve their operational, economical and sustainability related goals (e.g., Gemini principles) over time. The crux in gestating a digital twin however lies in its inherent complexity which hence already demands for sophisticated engineering by itself. A potential remedy lies in tight collaboration with industrial and economic stakeholders for devising tangible application scenarios to drive the actual gestation of digital twins by providing a basis for practical requirements elicitation. Only this way can future attempts towards gestating digital twins avoid falling victim to the curse of complexity as COTS approaches frankly cannot do the job. However, we also believe that current research has reached a state that provides the relevant enabling technologies for gestating digital twins. To thoroughly examine current needs and demands from industry and economy in correlation with current opportunities from academia and research towards this long-term vision, we we aim at addressing the following central issues with our workshop:

  • Design of collaboration platforms for enabling the joint engineering and maintenance of virtual replicas of cyber-physical assets
  • Integration of system modelling, AI, and simulation as central building blocks for digital twins
  • Long-term maintenance and life cycle management of digital twins in symbiosis with their cyber-physical assets
  • Continuous quality assurance for cyber-physical assets by monitoring, testing and control through digital twins

Topics


Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Models, methods, and techniques for developing digital twins
    • Requirements engineering for digital twins
    • Conceptual modelling for socio-techno-economical systems
    • Knowledge management for capturing domain knowledge
    • Methods and models for capturing the inherent uncertainty of business and societal systems
    • Simulation of business and social systems
    • Multi-paradigm modelling and co-simulation techniques
    • Validation and verification of digital twins
  • Technology and its applications
    • Application of enterprise modelling techniques for digital twin initiatives from different domains
    • Relevance of AI and optimization techniques
  • Aspects and domains of interest
    • Industry 4.0
    • Supply chain management
    • Social systems for policy making, urban planning, and healthcare
    • Sustainability
    • Smart cities

Call for Contributions


Participants are required to submit contributions with a length between 8 to 12 pages (including references and appendices).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted full papers will be presented during the workshop, accepted short papers will be discussed during an open poster (A0 portrait format) session.

Submissions must be in PDF following the CEURART style and uploaded via EasyChair.

Accepted workshop papers will be published in joint CEUR-WS proceedings.

Selected papers will be invited to publication in the Journal of Simulation Engineering. Regarding the submission format, please consult the author guidelines of JSimE. Submission deadline is January 31, 2022.

Important dates


  • Submission of papers: September 11 September 18, 2022
  • Notification of acceptance: October 3 October 18, 2022
  • Camera-ready version: October 17 November 7, 2022
  • Registration deadline workshop authors: TBA
  • Workshop: November 23, 2022
Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

The workshop will be conducted physically!

Speakers


Keynote Speakers


Invited Speakers



Schedule


Time Activity
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 1: Digital Twins? Yes! But, first, plan a Traceability Information Model by Pablo Oliveira Antonino
10:00 - 10:30 Benjamin Nast, Achim Reiz, Kurt Sandkuhl and Janis Stirna - Integrating Organizational and Technological Aspects of Digital Twin Engineering
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 2: A Domain Specific Language for Digital Twin Modelling and Prototyping by Tony Clark
12:00 -12:30 Poonam Maheshwari and Deepak Fulwani - Digital Twin of an Enterprise - A case of the Department of an Academic Institute
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45 Invited Talk 1: Digital Twin’s State of Play: Concepts, Development and Use Cases by Huan Nguyen
14:45 - 15:30 Invited Talk 2: Digital Twins for Learning Healthcare Systems by Steffen Zschaler
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
  1. Dushyanthi Mulpuru, Abhishek Yadav and Anwesha Basu - Multi-paradigm methodology for enterprise modelling using agent-based modelling and system dynamics
  2. Yogeswaranathan Kalyani, Sakibur Rahman and Rem Collier - Integration of Hypermedia-Agents, Microservices and Digital Twin for Smart Agriculture
  3. Dina Bayomie, Kate Revoredo, Stefan Bachhofner, Kabul Kurniawan, Elmar Kiesling and Jan Mendling - Analyzing Manufacturing Process By Enabling Process Mining on Sensor Data
17:30-18:00 Closing
18:00-19:30 Welcome reception at The Grove Atrium Mezzanine, Level 1. Middlesex University

Papers


Accepted papers:

  • Dushyanthi Mulpuru, Abhishek Yadav and Anwesha Basu - Multi-paradigm methodology for enterprise modelling using agent-based modelling and system dynamics
  • Dina Bayomie, Kate Revoredo, Stefan Bachhofner, Kabul Kurniawan, Elmar Kiesling and Jan Mendling - Analyzing Manufacturing Process By Enabling Process Mining on Sensor Data
  • Benjamin Nast, Achim Reiz, Kurt Sandkuhl and Janis Stirna - Integrating Organizational and Technological Aspects of Digital Twin Engineering
  • Poonam Maheshwari and Deepak Fulwani - Digital Twin of an Enterprise - A case of the Department of an Academic Institute
  • Yogeswaranathan Kalyani, Rem Collier and Sakibur Rahman - Integration of Hypermedia-Agents, Microservices and Digital Twin for Smart Agriculture

Venue


Please check out the conference venue as well as the conference program for detailed information on the workshop’s location. The workshop will be in room TBA.


Organizers


  • Vinay Kulkarni is distinguished chief scientist at TCS Research. His research interests include digital twins, learning-native software systems, adaptive enterprises, and model-driven software engineering.
  • Ruth Breu is full professor of computer science at the University of Innsbruck with emphasis on IT asset management and requirements engineering.
  • Philipp Zech is an assistant professor of computer science with a strong background in software modelling, machine learning, and robotics and simulation.
  • Souvik Barat is a principal scientist at TCS Research. He is involved in modelling and simulation of complex business systems for more than 20 years.

Technical Program Committee


  • Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim, Germany)
  • Souvik Barat (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Michael Felderer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Georg Fröch (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Alexandra Jäger (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Deepali Kholkar (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Simon Kranzer (FH Salzburg)
  • Vinay Kulkarni (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Aditya Paranjape (University College London, UK)
  • Sashko Ristov (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Suman Roychoudhury (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Clemens Sauerwein (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Philipp Zech (University of Innsbruck, Austria)