[agents] 1 CfP: 3rd Joint International Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch) and Digital Twin Engineering (DTE) at ICSA 2024

[philipp.zech at uibk.ac.at]

[ Apologies for possible cross-postings ]

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--- Call for Papers ---

3rd Joint International Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch) and Digital Twin Engineering (DTE) at ICSA 2024
Co-located with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)
June 4-5, 2024, Hyderabad, India

Workshop website: https://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/twinarch-dte.html

The workshop will be conducted physically!


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Scope
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This 3rd Joint International Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch) and Digital Twin Engineering (DTE) will provide researchers and practitioners with a unqiue forum to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze research and development issues, discuss promising solutions, and propose inspiring visions for the future in the fi eld of digital twins and their applications in various fields, from manufacturing to socio-economic systems, from the combined perspective of software architecture and systems and software modeling. It aims to increase the awareness of the role of digital twins in software architecture and systems engineering and to address the importance of the modeling and architecture of digital twins and of complex systems with digital twins.


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Topics of Interest
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Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Software Architecture Description for and with Digital Twins:
  * Architectures of digital twins, including digital threads and digital shadows
  * Architectures for cyber-physical systems with digital twins
  * Integration of multiple stakeholders' concerns into the software architecting process of digital twins
  * AI in the architecture of digital twins, e.g., AI for generating simulation models for digital twins
  * Case studies involving simulations to guide the development of system architecture
  * From Software Architecture Models to Executable Simulation Models:

* (Semi-)formal approaches supporting architecture models with digital twins at design time/run time
  * Approaches for (semi-)automatically creating simulation models from architecture
  * Architecture frameworks for the development of digital twin architectures from multiple viewpoints
  * Case studies involving simulations to guide systems architecture development.
  * Digital Twins for Adaptive Systems/Software Architectures:

* Software architecture practices to support adaptations
  * AI technologies for adaptation (e.g., case-based-reasoning, reinforcement learning)
  * Cognitive digital twins
  * Case studies of adaptive architectures
  * Digital Twins and Continuous Engineering Practices:

* Runtime verification of systems with digital twins
  * Monitoring the quality of systems using digital twins
  * Self-validation of digital twins
  * Case studies of continuous engineering using digital twins
  * 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


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Contributions
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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 page limits:
- 12 pages for full research papers in LNCS format + 2 extra pages for references
- 8 pages for short research papers in LNCS format + 2 extra pages for references
- 8 pages for industry papers as case studies + 2 extra pages for references

Submissions must be in PDF following the LNCS style available at

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

and submitted via

https://easychair.org.


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Important Dates
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Paper submission: 18 February 2024
Author notification: 17 March 2024
Camera-ready paper: 31 March 2024
Workshop: June 4-5, 2024

Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).


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Workshop Co-chairs
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Ass-Prof. Philipp Zech, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 
Dr. Souvik Barat, TCS Research, Pune, India
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
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 


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Workshop website: https://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/en/events/twinarch-dte.html