Topic

Towards a Procedure Model for Designing Interoperable, Networked Digital Twins

Abstract

Digital Twins can represent various urban elements like infrastructure, utilities, public services, and citizens. While individual Digital Twins offer insights into specific aspects, their true potential lies in forming distributed, networked systems that collaborate or compete, enabling comprehensive analysis, optimization, prediction, and execution of complex urban operations. However, achieving this requires overcoming significant interoperability challenges due to the diversity of domains, stakeholders, and data formats in smart cities. This lecture proposes a procedural model for designing interoperable, networked Digital Twins, focusing on overcoming these challenges through technological concepts such as the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), data space architectures like Gaia-X and IDSA, semantic data integration, and other emerging solutions.

 Speaker 

Klaus-Dieter Thoben

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter THOBEN is an academician of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering and a Full Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is also  Managing Director of the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics (BIBA) and has been involved in research for ICT applications in production and logistics as well as product development and lifecycle where he has more than 20 years of experience of working in large-scale national and international research projects. He has authored numerous journal and conference contributions and edited several books. Major publications address co-operative processes with a specific focus on product-based innovations, service engineering, lifecycle management, and collaborative networks using advanced AI methods.

 Host 

Prof. Herzog

Foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

German Academy of Engineering Sciences

Academician

International Leading Professor of Shanghai's Peak Discipline Team

Prof. Philip F. Yuan  

Vice Dean of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Time

April 28th  9:00-11:00

Venue

A213 Lecture Hall, 

College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University