MIDas4CS - First Workshop on the Modelling and Implementation of Digital Twins for Complex Systems

The concept of Digital Twin is becoming increasingly popular since it was introduced in the scope of the Smart Industry (Industry 4.0). A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital representation of a physical twin that is a real-world entity, system, or event. It mirrors a distinctive object, process, building, or human, regardless of whether that thing is tangible or non-tangible in the real world. The DT technology provides benefits such as real-time remote monitoring and control; greater efficiency and safety; predictive maintenance and scheduling; scenario and risk assessment; better intra- and inter-team synergy and collaborations; more efficient and informed decision support system; personalisation of products and services; and better documentation and communication. The ultimate purpose of Digital Twins is to improve decision-making for solving real-world problems, by using the digital model to create the information necessary for decision-making and subsequently applying the decisions in the real world. Nowadays, Digital Twins are not limited to industrial applications but are spreading to other areas as well, such as, for example, in the healthcare domain, in personalised medicine and clinical trials for drug development.

This workshop aims at getting a better understanding of the techniques that can be used to model and implement Digital Twins and their applications in different domains. In this workshop, we welcome contributions that aim at introducing formal definitions of Digital Twin, but also contributions that describe applications of Digital Twins in different domains. Contributions on tooling for Digital Twins are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines

To submit your paper you must use the EasyChair site of the workshop (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=midas4cs)

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must comply with the Springer‚ LNBIP format. Regular papers must not exceed 16 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages.

The workshop will accept regular papers and short (position) papers. The quality of this workshop will be ensured by having each contribution being reviewed by at least three experts in the field. 

List of Topics

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Management and Engineering of DT for Complex Systems
• Complex System Architectures for DTs
• Safety and Security in Adopting DTs
• Platforms, Frameworks and Tools for DTs
• Methods and Techniques for the Development of DTs
• Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing for DTs
• Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies of DTs
• Quality Assurance of DTs
• Digital Process Twins
• Collaboration among DTs
• Interaction and cooperation between DTs and Humans
• Artificial Intelligence for DTs
• DT Enhanced Business Processes
• Cognitive Computing for DTs
• Augmented and Virtual Reality for DT
• Practical Validation and Case Studies
• Design patterns for Digital Twins

Committees

Program Committee

• Abel Armas Cervantes, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Emanuele Laurenzi, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland
• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
• Estefanía Serral, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Victoria Torres Bosch, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
• Erik Proper, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Tony Clark, Aston University, United Kingdom
• Oscar Pastor Lopez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Ethan Hadar, Accenture Cybersecurity Labs, Israel
• Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
• Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Organizing committee

• Pedro Valderas (pvalderas@dsic.upv.es)
• Fabrizio Fornari (fabrizio.fornari@unicam.it)
• Luís Ferreira Pires (l.ferreirapires@utwente.nl)
• Marten van Sinderen (m.j.vansinderen@utwente.nl)
• Giancarlo Guizzardi (g.guizzardi@utwente.nl)

Publication

A joint post-proceedings volume for all EDOC workshops will be organized, which will be published with Springer under the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Venue

The city of Groningen is the capital of the province of Groningen, the most north eastern province of the Netherlands. The largest (230000 people) urban center in the area, it is a relatively undiscovered and unspoiled part of the Netherlands that has kept most of its authenticity.

Groningen is one of the happiest cities in Europe, and happiest small city in the Netherlands, scoring in the top five European cities for quality of life, education, public domain, health care and air quality. Students comprise an estimated 25% of its total population and makes it the country's demographically youngest city.

The city is founded in the third century BC, and was in 1614 the second university city in the Netherlands.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Pedro Valderas (pvalderas@dsic.upv.es)