*Special issue Autonomous, Context-Aware, Adaptive Digital Twins*
/Computers in Industry (Elsevier)/
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/Scope: /
Digital Twins are quickly becoming an important concept in the digital
representation of manufacturing assets, products, and other resources.
As comprehensive digital representations of physical assets, comprising
their design and configuration, state, and behaviour, Digital Twins
provide information about and services based on their physical
counterpart’s current condition, their history and even their predicted
future. As such, they can be considered the building blocks of a vision
of future Digital Factories in which stakeholders collaborate via the
information Digital Twins provide about physical assets in the factory
and throughout the product lifecycle.
Besides their potential to facilitate collaboration based on information
about their physical counterparts, Digital Twins also hold promise to
contribute to more flexible and resilient Digital Factories. To fulfil
this promise, Digital Twins will need to evolve from today’s
expert-centric tools towards active entities that extend the
capabilities of their physical counterparts. Required features include
sensing and processing their environment and situation, pro-actively
communicating with each other and with humans, taking their own
decisions towards their own or cooperative goals, and adapting
themselves and their physical counterparts to achieve those goals. That
means, future Digital Twins should be /context-aware/,/autonomous/, and
/adaptive/.
This Special Issue intends to highlight research contributing to the
evolution of Digital Twins towards context-aware, autonomous, and
adaptive building blocks of tomorrow’s Digital Factories. Contributions
should address research gaps that need to be bridged to achieve that
objective. Four interwoven research topics are especially relevant in
this context: 1) interoperability, 2) modelling, 3) interaction and 4)
real-time data processing and decision-making. More details about this
vision and the related research gaps are available in the
state-of-the-art paper “Autonomous, Context-Aware, Adaptive Digital
Twins – State of the Art and Roadmap” in Computers in Industry Volume
133 (December 2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2021.103508
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2021.103508>.
Contributions should address one or more of the four topics and deal
with issues including, but not limited to, the following:
●Integration and interoperability of context information with Digital Twins
●Harmonisation of Digital Twins with the IoT paradigm
●Lifecycle-wide interoperability with Digital Twins
●Standards and protocols for interoperability of Digital Twins
●Context models for Digital Twins
●Context-aware integration aggregation of Digital Twins
●Relation of agent and holon models to Digital Twins
●Granularity of Digital Twins
●Transition of business goals into adaptable plans
●Framework, reference models and integration with existing models e.g.
RAMI 4.0
●Models of interaction and cooperation between Digital Twins and Humans
●Humans as part of the context of Digital Twins
●Borders between humans and autonomous Digital Twins
●Explainability and certification of Digital Twin models, simulations
and predictions
●Real-time processing of context data by Digital Twins
●Time-constrained, near-optimal decision-making methods for Digital Twins
●Real-time handling of massive amounts of data by Digital Twins
●Methods for Digital Twins to handle Incomplete and noisy data streams
/Guest Editors:///
Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Department of Physics Informatics and Math
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena (Italy)
Web page: http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/gcabri
<http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/gcabri>
Karl A. Hribernik < [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH
Bremen (Germany)
Web page:
https://www.biba.uni-bremen.de/en/institute/staff/homepage.html?nick=hri
<https://www.biba.uni-bremen.de/en/institute/staff/homepage.html?nick=hri>
Federica Mandreoli <[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Department of Physics Informatics and Math
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena (Italy)
Web page: http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/fmandreoli
<http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/fmandreoli>
Gregoris Mentzas <[log in to unmask]>
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Athens (Greece)
Web page: https://www.ece.ntua.gr/en/staff/50
<https://www.ece.ntua.gr/en/staff/50>
/Paper submission: /
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The submission process is organised in two stages: 1) extended abstract
submission and 2) full paper submission.Extended abstract submission and
its acceptance are compulsory for full paper submission.
Extended abstracts must be not more than 3.000 characters (this amount
excludes the characters in tables, figures, and references). These are
to be sent directly via email to the Guest editors – not the Elsevier
submission webpage of the journal. Please include all four email
addresses below :
Giacomo Cabri <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Karl A. Hribernik <[log in to unmask]>
Federica Mandreoli <[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Gregoris Mentzas <[log in to unmask]>
The guest editors will assess the appropriateness of the themes proposed
and results to be presented as shown in the extended abstracts and will
invite selected authors to submit full papers. The authors of the
abstracts who are not selected will be notified accordingly.
If invited, full papers must be prepared by following the Computers in
Industry guide for authors available at
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-in-industry/0166-3615/guide-for-authors
<https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-in-industry/0166-3615/guide-for-authors>and
submitted through the submission portal
https://www.editorialmanager.com/comind/default1.aspx
<https://www.editorialmanager.com/comind/default1.aspx>.
The dates for submission and notification are the following:
-extended abstract submission: December 8, 2021
-extended abstract acceptance notification: December 22, 2021
-full paper submission: March 31, 2022
-first round of review results: May 15 2022,
-revised papers due: June 30, 2022
Those papers that need a second revision, the expected decision date is
August 31, 2022
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