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 11September 18, 2022 - Notification of acceptance:
October 3October 18, 2022 - Camera-ready version:
October 17November 7, 2022 - Registration deadline workshop authors: TBA
- Workshop: November 23, 2022
The workshop will be conducted physically!
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
- Tony Clark, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
- Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Invited Speakers
- Huan Nguyen, Middlsex University, London, UK
- Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, London, UK
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 |
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| 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)