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DTMN a Modelling Notation for Digital Twins

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Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops (EDOC 2022)

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Abstract

Modelling and developing digital twin solutions is a growing and promising trend followed by enterprises with the ambition to improve decision-making and accelerate risk assessment and production time. However, as a current emerging trend, there is no recognised standard nor a unique solution that provides support for all the characteristics of a digital twin. This article builds upon the result of a literature review that we conducted to extract the main characteristics attributed to Digital Twins. The identified characteristics guided the proposal of a Digital Twin Modelling Notation (DTMN). In this work we present the DTMN meta-model supported by a graphical modelling notation. This modelling notation can be used as a starting point to design and reason about Digital Twin solutions.

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Notes

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    https://www.iso.org/standard/81442.html.

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    https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8356/draft.

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    www.digitaltwinconsortium.org/.

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    https://www.adoxx.org/live/home.

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    The proposed library and additional information about DTMN are available on: https://pros.unicam.it/dtmn/.

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This work has been partially supported by the MIUR project PRIN “Fluidware” (A Novel Approach for Large-Scale IoT Systems, n. 2017KRC7KT) and by Marche Region in implementation of the financial programme POR MARCHE FESR 2014-2020, project “Miracle” (Marche Innovation and Research fAcilities for Connected and sustainable Living Environments), CUP B28I19000330007.

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Corradini, F., Fedeli, A., Fornari, F., Polini, A., Re, B. (2023). DTMN a Modelling Notation for Digital Twins. In: Sales, T.P., Proper, H.A., Guizzardi, G., Montali, M., Maggi, F.M., Fonseca, C.M. (eds) Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops . EDOC 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26886-1_4

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