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.

Objectives and Topics

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.

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
• Model-Driven Enginering for 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

Programme

Monday, June 16, 2025

• 14:00-14:05 Opening
• 14:05-14:50 Keynote: Model-Driven Engineering for Digital Twins by Prof. Manuel Wimmer
• 14:50-15:15 Tim Kreuzer, Panagiotis Papapetrou, and Jelena Zdravkovic. A Meta-model for Integrating Explainable Forecasting with Digital Twins
• 15:15-15:40 Gerald Kremer, Svenja Nicole Schulte, Rainer Stark. Development and Evaluation of Support Tools for Modeling Digital Twin Concepts and Architectures
• 15:40-16:10 Coffe Break
• 16:10-16:35 Renata Guizzardi, Jean Paul Sebastian Piest, Arda Akyazi, Sekai Ariji, Tommy Tao, Mohsen Bastani, Anne-Ruth Scheijgrond, Roland Kromanis, Farid Vahdatikhaki, Joschka Andreas Hüllmann, and Martijn Mes. Requirements Analysis for a Digital Twin to Increase the Resilience of Multimodal Corridors: A Case Study in the Twente Region
• 16:35-17:00 Massimo Callisto De Donato, Flavio Corradini, Niccolò Francioni, Francesco Giovannini, Barbara Re, and Andrea Scacchia. Towards a Digital Twin of a Decanter Centrifuge for Wastewater Management
• 17:00-17:25 Flavio Oquendo. Digital Twins in Systems-of-Systems on the Internet-of-Vehicles: The Case of Overtaking Maneuver
• 17:25-17:30 Closing

MIDas4CS 2025 Keynote

Model-Driven Engineering for Digital Twins

by Prof. Manuel Wimmer

Abstract: Due to the ever-growing importance of cyber-physical systems as a backbone of our society (think about shorter innovation cycles, emerging cutting-edge technologies, and changing requirements), the design, realization, operation, and maintenance of such systems are becoming more and more challenging.
As an answer, digital twins are emerging and gaining attention to support different phases of the system lifecycle such as design-space exploration, runtime adaptation, and predictive maintenance. While benefits of using digital twins are already demonstrated for different settings, the development, operation, and evolution of digital twins pose several novel engineering challenges.
In my talk, I will summarize different research endeavors we have followed to tackle the challenges in engineering digital twins with model-driven methodologies to close the gap between the design and operation of systems.

CV: Manuel Wimmer is full professor and head of the Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. His research interests comprise foundations of model-driven engineering and their application in various fields such as software modernization, cyber-physical systems, quantum computing, and digital twins. He serves as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Software and Systems Modeling, and Business & Information Systems Engineering. He served as program co-chair for several conferences (e.g., ICWE 2023, MODELS 2022, FASE 2022, SEAA 2020, ICMT 2015) and as general co-chair for SE 2024 and MODELS 2024. Currently he is co-organizing the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf 2025). For more information, please visit: https://www.se.jku.at/manuel-wimmer

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Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: March 7th, 2025
• Paper submission deadline (extended): March 14th, 2025
• Authors notification: April 7th, 2025
• Camera-ready paper: April 14th, 2025
• Author registration: April 14th, 2025
• Workshop: June 16th-17th, 2025.

Submissions

The workshop will accept regular papers and short (position) papers. Pieces of ongoing research work are also welcome.

The quality of this workshop will be ensured by having each contribution being reviewed by at least three experts in the field. A joint volume for all CAiSE workshops will be organized, which will be published with Springer under the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Submissions should be made via the CAISE 2025 EasyChair submission site by selecting "Workshops - MIDas4CS"

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must comply with the Springer‚ LNBIP format. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Short papers must not exceed 6-8 pages.

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Programme Committee

• Abel Armas Cervantes, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
• Estefanía Serral, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Victoria Torres Bosch, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Oscar Pastor Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Philipp Zech, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Souvik Barat, TCS Research, India
• Taru Itäpelto, University of Twente,The Netherlands
• Vinay Kulkarni, TCS Research, India

Programme Chairs

Pedro Valderas

pvalderas@dsic.upv.es
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Fabrizio Fornari

fabrizio.fornari@unicam.it
University of Camerino, Italy

Luís Ferreira Pires

l.ferreirapires@utwente.nl
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Marten van Sinderen

m.j.vansinderen@utwente.nl
University of Twente, The Netherlands

João Moreira

j.luizrebelomoreira@utwente.nl
University of Twente, The Netherlands