DiDiT 2024 - 1st International Workshop on Distributed Digital Twins

Welcome to DiDiT 2024! The premier workshop on distributed digital twins, colocated at the DisCoTec 2024 conferences June 17, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Scope

A digital twin (DT) is a virtual representation of a physical object, system, or process (including cities, and even ecosystems), synchronised with the real-world entity it replicates. It does so by using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, such as sensors and actuators. Through the application of digital technologies, such as AI, data analytics and computer simulations, a DT application can be used to experiment, simulate, analyse, adapt, and optimise the behaviour, performance and maintenance of the real-world counterpart, including its interaction with other objects or systems. However, large industrial systems often consist of complex distributed and interconnected elements and sub-systems. Real-time representation of the complexity of such interconnections poses many scientific and industrial challenges.

This workshop provides a discussion platform for academia and industry to investigate the topic of distributed digital twins, shed light on the issues and challenges and propose solutions for the problems of distributed ecosystems in large-scale cyber-physical systems.

Main Topics

We welcome papers with novel ideas in related topics, including (but not limited) to the following:

Digital Twin architectures
Theoretical models and foundations for distributed cyber-physical systems
Distributed cyber-physical communication and coordination models
Distributed digital twins properties, modelling and definitions
Management and orchestration of distributed control systems
Distributed decision-making with digital twins
Adaptability and variability frameworks for distributed cyber-physical systems
Testing and validation - approaches, frameworks, testbeds
Verification of properties, models and definitions
Real-world deployments and experimentations
Interdisciplinary aspects of digital twins

Submissions
Important dates
Papers submission: April 20, 2024
Paper notification: May 10, 2024
Camera-ready: May 31, 2024
Workshop: June 17
Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.

Submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=didit2024

Publication
Authors are invited to submit short and regular papers electronically in PostScript or PDF using an online submission process. Submission of the paper must be completed according to the above submission dates and submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the above submission system link.

Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere. The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit of 6 pages for short papers and 12 pages for regular papers, prepared using one-column Springer LNCS format. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review.

Proceedings
Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

Organization Committee
Victoria Degeler - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dilek Dustegor - University of Groningen, Netherlands
Heerko Groefsema - University of Groningen, Netherlands
Elena Lazovik - TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), Netherlands