2nd International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering

2nd International Workshop on Digital Twin Engineering (DTE) 2023

November 29th, 2023, Technical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, co-located with PoEM 2023

As to the growing interest in digital twins for planning and operating long-living cyber-physical assets, the modeling community faces new challenges in developing applicable and profitable methodologies for engineering and maintaining these virtual replicas of cyber-physical assets. However, the application of digital twins is not limited to industrial domains; they are also capable of exploring and defining the most effective interventions for large businesses and societal systems to achieve their operational, economic, and sustainability-related objectives (e.g., Gemini principles). The difficulty in conceiving a digital twin lies in its inherent complexity, which already necessitates advanced engineering. A solution is to work closely with industrial and economic stakeholders to develop application scenarios that drive the development of digital twins by providing a foundation for requirements elicitation. In this manner, future attempts to conceive digital twins will not fall prey to the curse of complexity, as COTS solutions frankly cannot do the job.

Our workshop aims to address the following central issues:


  • Design of collaboration platforms to enable the joint engineering and maintenance of cyber-physical asset virtual replicas.
  • Integration of system modeling, AI, and simulation as fundamental digital twin building blocks.
  • Life cycle management and maintenance of digital twins in symbiosis with their cyber-physical assets.
  • Continuous quality assurance for cyber-physical assets through digital twin monitoring, testing, and control.
  • The modeling of socio-techno-economic characteristics of large business and societal systems, including uncertainty, dynamism, and emergentism in space and time.

As a result of the ongoing digitalization of our society and industry, the purpose of this workshop is to discuss the current status of digital twin engineering and emerging application areas.


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 5 to 15 pages (including references and appendices).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and all presented papers will be published in a workshop CEUR-WS proceedings.

Submissions must be in PDF following the one column CEURART style and uploaded via Easychair.

Important dates

  • Submission of papers: September 20 October 4 October 23, 2023
  • Notification of acceptance: October 11 October 18 October 30, 2023
  • Registration deadline workshop authors:October 30, 2023 November 6, 2023
  • Camera-ready version: December 15, 2023
  • Workshop: November 29, 2023
Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

The workshop will be conducted physically!

Speakers

Keynote Speakers


Invited Speakers


Schedule

Time Activity
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
Session 1 Session chair: Emilio Carrión
09:05 - 10:00 Keynote 1: Tobias Bellmann: Simulated Robots - Robotic Simulators: Virtual Commissioning with physical system models
10:00 - 10:30 Nico Blasek, Karl Eichenmüller, Bastian Ernst, Niklas Götz, Benjamin Nast and Kurt Sandkuhl: Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering for Digital Twin
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
Session 2 Session chair: Benjamin Nast
11:00 - 11:45 Invited Talk: Balbir Barn: Sociotechnical Digital Twin: Public Policy Evaluation and a Research Roadmap for the Digital Society
11:45 -12:15 Emilio Carrión and Óscar Pastor: A Systematic Review of Methodologies for Developing Digital Twins: Insights and Recommendations for Effective Implementation
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:05 Welcome back
Session 3 Session chair: Mohamed Zalat
14:05 - 15:00 Keynote 2: Manuel Wimmer: Model-Driven Digital Twin Engineering
15:00 - 15:30 Mohamed Abdelsalam, Loai Ali, Saddek Bensalem, Weicheng He, Panagiotis Katsaros, Nikolaos Kekatos, Doron Peled, Anastasios Temperekidis and Changshun Wu: A Digital Twin Prototype for Traffic Sign Recognition of a Learning-Enabled Autonomous Vehicle
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
Session 4 Session chair: Loai Ali
16:00 - 16:30 Mohamed Zalat, Chris Barber, David Krauss, Babak Esfandiari and Thomas Kunz: Network Routing Optimization using Digital Twins
16:30 - 17:25 Discussion session
17:25 - 17:30 Farewell

Papers

  • Mohamed Zalat, Chris Barber, David Krauss, Babak Esfandiari and Thomas Kunz: Network Routing Optimization using Digital Twins
  • Nico Blasek, Karl Eichenmüller, Bastian Ernst, Niklas Götz, Benjamin Nast and Kurt Sandkuhl: Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering for Digital Twins
  • Emilio Carrión and Óscar Pastor: A Systematic Review of Methodologies for Developing Digital Twins: Insights and Recommendations for Effective Implementation
  • Mohamed Abdelsalam, Loai Ali, Saddek Bensalem, Weicheng He, Panagiotis Katsaros, Nikolaos Kekatos, Doron Peled, Anastasios Temperekidis and Changshun Wu: A Digital Twin Prototype for Traffic Sign Recognition of a Learning-Enabled Autonomous Vehicle

Venue

Please check out the conference page for detailed informations on the workshop's location.


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

  • Souvik Barat (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Ruth Breu (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Luca Davioli (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • 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)
  • Suman Roychoudhury (TCS Research, Pune, India)
  • Clemens Sauerwein (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  • Philipp Zech (University of Innsbruck, Austria)