Mission

The workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Digital Twins (CoMoDiTy) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on modeling concepts, methods, and tools for bringing the vision of digital twins to life. As such, it aspires to be a truly interdisciplinary meeting for researchers from conceptual modeling, model-driven software and systems engineering, and production engineering.

As CoMoDiTy 2020 serves to have fruitful discussions between participants from conceptual modeling, model-driven software and systems engineering, and production engineering.

In line with the ER 2020, CoMoDiTy 2020 is going virtual as well.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interested of CoMoDiTy 2020 include but are not limited to the following:

  • Conceptual modeling techniques for digital shadows and digital twins
  • Theories for conceptual modeling of digital twins in the context of the observed cyber-physical systems
  • Modeling methods and tools for developing digital shadows and digital twins
  • Evolution and Life-Cycle Management with/for digital twins
  • Case Studies of modeling digital twins
  • Integrating 3D modeling and conceptual modeling
  • Challenges in modeling digital twins
  • Interaction of digital twin models and design time and at runtime
  • Systematic derivation of digital twins
  • Learning digital twins from observing system behavior
  • Operating digital twins with humans in the loop
  • Code generation and interpretation of executable digital twins
  • Modeling distributed and scalable data for digital twins

Keynote

Thomas Bednar: Towards a multistakeholder IT environment for developing, constructing and operating buildings and cities based on digital twins and shadows. Lessons learned from the project SIMULTAN and the follow-up "Virtuelle Flughafenstadt"

Abstract: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the production and operation of buildings and infrastructure to below zero requires extensive measures at all levels. Moreover, solutions must be understandable to all stakeholders. A high level of transparency and cooperation is needed in order to find ways together and to learn from implementation steps. An according proof-of-concept was developed as part of the SIMULTAN project. It demonstrates how a complete, open meta-data model can be generated from stakeholder needs regarding analysis and simulation. Together with Vienna Airport this proof-of-concept was further developed beyond the single building. This enables the master planning of a city and its infrastructure. Partially automated, also the operation efficiency of buildings and infrastructures can be assured based on a meta-data model. During the life cycle of buildings and infrastructure, detailed models (digital twins) as well as simplified models (digital shadows) are used as decision tools.

Vita: Thomas BEDNAR, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from TU Wien, is a full professor for Building Physics at TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology. His main research focus are prediction models for hygrothermal and acoustic performance of buildings. He has written many papers related to energy use, moisture and building acoustics both on calculations and measurements and is now finishing projects on plus-plus energy high rise office buildings or safeguarding wooden beam ends after renovations of brick-buildings from 1900. Since leading the doctoral school URBEM at TU Wien focusing on the urban energy and mobility system he is head of the development of multistakeholder IT-enviroment SIMULTAN at TU Wien for developing and understanding the built environment.

Program

Starting time may change to match overall conference organization.

1st Session: Opening & Keynote

  • 16:00 - 16:15: Opening (Presentation slides)
  • 16:15 - 17:00: Keynote by Thomas Bednar: Towards a multistakeholder IT environment for developing, constructing and operating buildings and cities based on digital twins and shadows. Lessons learned from the project SIMULTAN and the follow-up "Virtuelle Flughafenstadt"

Social Break

2nd Session: Input Talks and Discussion

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 27 July 03 August 2020
  • Author notification: 17 August 2020
  • Camera-ready version: 07 Septemer 2020
  • Camera-ready proceedings: 11 September 2020

Paper Submission

We invite submissions of papers of up to 5 pages describing original and unpublished results on any of the workshop’s topics of interest, including position papers, experience papers, and challenge papers from both researchers and practitioners.

The CoMoDiTy'20 proceedings will be part of the joint ER 2020 workshop proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of the Springer Verlag. See Springer's website on LNCS for style files and details. Springer also has provided a LaTeX template in Overleaf for your convenience.

Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair.

To ensure a high quality of presentations, all papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by the Program Committee. Papers not submitted in LNCS format or longer than 5 pages will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

A paper submitted to CoMoDiTy'20 may not be under review for any other workshop, conference or journal during the time it is being considered for CoMoDiTy'20.

Note that only accepted papers presented in the workshop by at least one author will be published.

Program Committee

  • Loli Burgueño (Open University of Catalonia & CEA LIST)
  • Jordi Cabot (ICREA - UOC (Internet interdisciplinary institute))
  • Benoit Combemale (University of Toulouse & Inria)
  • Manuela Dalibor (RWTH Aachen University)
  • Romina Eramo (University of L'Aquila)
  • Alexandra Mazak-Huemer (Montanuniversität Leoben)
  • Bran Selic (Malina Software Corp.)
  • Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart)
  • Mark van den Brand (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Organizers