Second International Workshop on Semantic Digital Twins (SeDiT 2021)

Co-located with the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021)

Hersonissos, Greece - 6 June 2021

See Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The concept of digital twins, as virtual replicas of physical entities, has gained significant traction in recent years in a range of domains such as industry, construction, energy, health or transport. Digital Twins can be used to view the status of the twinned physical object, without the need to interrogate the object itself. The digital twin can be queried by other software without the need to query the device itself thus relieving pressure on devices, which typically have very limited computational capabilities. Digital twins can also be used for monitoring and diagnostics to optimize device performance without impacting on the physical device.

Digital twins require unambiguous descriptions of both the entity and its digital counterpart, as well as the ability to integrate data from heterogeneous sources of information (including real-time data) and to interact with the physical world. Given these requirements, semantic technologies can play a significant role in the real-world deployment of digital twin technology.

The aims of the SeDIT workshop are twofold. Firstly, to drive the discussion about current trends and future challenges of semantic digital twins. Secondly, to support communication and collaboration with the goal of aligning the various efforts within the community and accelerating innovation in the associated fields.

Topics

  • Semantics and digital twins
  • Semantic descriptions of digital twins and their context
  • Interaction with semantic digital twins
  • Synchronization between an entity and its semantic digital twin
  • Simulation and models of semantic digital twins
  • Validation of semantic digital twins
  • Analytics and visualization for semantic digital twins
  • Scalability of semantic digital twins
  • Self-awareness of semantic digital twins
  • Semantic digital twin ecosystems
  • Security and trust for semantic digital twins
  • Privacy and ethics for semantic digital twins
  • Semantic digital twins in industry
  • Semantic digital twins in construction
  • Semantic digital twins in health
  • Semantic digital twins in transport
  • Semantic digital twins in the energy sector
  • Semantic digital twins in smart cities
  • Semantic digital twins for people

Author Guidelines

Format

Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.

Contributions

  • Full research papers (8-12 pages)
  • In Use and Experience papers (8-12 pages)
  • Position papers (6-8 pages)
  • Short research papers (4-6 pages)
  • System/demo/in practice papers (4-6 pages)

Review and Publication

All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via OpenReview. We will follow an open reviewing process where:

  • Submissions will be publicly visible after the full submission deadline
  • Review texts will be publicly visible at the end of the reviewing process
  • All members of the community are invited to contribute public reviews and comments to submissions and reviews
Submissions and public annotations are non-anonymous throughout the entire process. Solicited reviewers are initially anonymous, but can optionally choose to disclose their identity after notification. Authors can opt to have rejected contributions removed from OpenReview after a certain period of time.

The accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.

At least one author of each accepted paper has to register for the main conference and each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors at the workshop.

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings are available online as the Volume 2887 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Program

Keynote

The invited keynote speaker for this edition of the SeDiT workshop is Jakob Beetz, Chair of Computational Design in the Department of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University.

Schedule

Session 1 (14:00 - 15:30)

  • 14:00 - 14:10 Welcome
  • 14:10 - 15:05 Keynote: Jakob Beetz
    Semantic Digital Twins for the Built Environment - a key facilitator for the European Green Deal?
  • 15:05 - 15:30 Research paper
    A Semantic Offsite Construction Digital Twin- Offsite Manufacturing Production Workflow (OPW) Ontology - Kudirat Ayinla, Edlira Vakaj, Franco Cheung, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

Session 2 (16:00 - 18:00)

  • 16:00 - 16:25 Research paper
    Semantic Digital Twins for Organizational Development - Alfonso Díez, Juan de Lara (not presented)
  • 16:25 - 16:50 Research paper
    Semantic Digital Twins: Security and Scale for Constrained IoT Devices - Evandro Pioli Moro, Alistair K. Duke
  • 16:50 - 17:15 Research paper
    Steps towards a Dislocation Ontology for Crystalline Materials - Ahmad Zainul Ihsan, Danilo Dessì, Mehwish Alam, Harald Sack, Stefan Sandfeld
  • 17:15 - 17:40 Position paper
    Towards Semantic Digital Twins for Social Networks - Rafael Berlanga, Lledó Museros, Dolores M. Llidó, Ismael Sanz, María J. Aramburu
  • 17:40 - 18:00 Discussion

Important dates

8 March, 2021

Paper submission (EXTENDED)

Submit your paper.

31 March, 2021

Notifications

The notification and reviews from our Program Committee will be available.

23 April, 2021

Submission camera ready

Time to have your paper ready for being published. All the accepted paper will be published in the proceedings.

6 June, 2021

Event

Keynote, papers presentations, demo jam and a lot of discussion. Remember! If your contribution is accepted, it needs to be presented by one of the authors at the event.

Organizers

Raúl García-Castro

Associate Professor, UPM

John Davies

Chief Researcher, BT

Grigoris Antoniou

Professor, University of Huddersfield

Carolina Fortuna

Senior Research Fellow, JSI

Program Committee

  • Alistair Duke, BT Research
  • Aljaz Košmerlj, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Iker Esnaola-González, Tekniker
  • Ilias Tachmazidis, University of Huddersfield
  • María Poveda-Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Pieter Pauwels, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Sebastian Bader, Fraunhofer IAIS
  • Serge Chávez-Feria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Zoé Chevallier, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline

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