Publication Results

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• [CEK+25] Shengjian Chen, Carsten Ellwein, Lars Klingel, Rebekka Neumann, Jingxi Zhang, Oliver Riedel, Alexander Verl, Andreas Wortmann:
  Digital Twins for Machine Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study. In Digital Twin. preprint.

• [HMR+25] Malte Heithoff, Judith Michael, Bernhard Rumpe, Jérôme Pfeiffer, Andreas Wortmann, Jingxi Zhang:
  A Method for Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins in Manufacturing. preprint.

• [KMWZ25] R. Kimmel, J. Michael, A. Wortmann, J. Zhang:
  Digital Twins for Software Engineering Processes. In: ICSE ’25: ACM/IEEE 47th International Conference on Software Engineering. Companion Proceedings, ACM, 2025. preprint.

• [PZC+25] J. Pfeiffer, J. Zhang, B. Combemale, J. Michael, B. Rumpe, M. Wimmer, A. Wortmann:
  Towards a Unifying Reference Model for Digital Twins of Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Int. Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA’25), IEEE, Sep. 2025.

• [MCZ+25] Judith Michael, Loek Cleophas, Steffen Zschaler, Tony Clark, Benoit Combemale, Thomas Godfrey, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Vinay Kulkarni, Daniel Lehner, Bernhard Rumpe, and others:
  Model‐Driven Engineering for Digital Twins: Opportunities and Challenges. In Systems Engineering, Wiley Online Library, 2025.

• [ZEH+25] J. Zhang, C. Ellwein, M. Heithoff, J. Michael, A. Wortmann:
  Digital Twin and the Asset Administration Shell: An Analysis of 3 AASs Types and their Feasibility for Digital Twin Engineering. In: Journal Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Springer, 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s10270-024-01255-0

• [HJM+24] M. Heithoff, N. Jansen, J. Michael, F. Rademacher, B. Rumpe:
  Model-Based Engineering of Multi-Purpose Digital Twins in Manufacturing. In: Digital Twin: Fundamentals and Applications, S. Sabri, K. Alexandridis, N. Lee (Eds.), pp. 89-126, ISBN 978-3-031-67778-6, DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-67778-6_5, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Dec. 2024.

• [BBM+24] F. Bonetti, A. Bucchiarone, J. Michael, A. Cicchetti, A. Marconi, B. Rumpe: Digital Twins of Socio-Technical Ecosystems to Drive Societal Change. In: System Analysis and Modelling Conference, MODELS Companion ’24: International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (SAM), pp. 275-286, DOI 10.1145/3652620.3686248, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Oct. 2024.

• [GZW+24] Milapji Singh Gill, Jingxi Zhang, Andreas Wortmann, and Alexander Fay:
  Toward automating the composition of digital twins within system-of-systems. In 2024 IEEE 29th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), pp. 1–4, 2024.

• [MZS+24] Matteo Martinelli, Jingxi Zhang, Ann-Kathrin Splettstoßer, Marco Picone, Marco Lippi, and Andreas Wortmann:
  Hierarchical Digital Twin Ecosystem for Industrial Manufacturing Scenarios. In 2024 50th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), pp. 56–63, 2024.

• [MBD+24] J. Michael, J. Blankenbach, J. Derksen, B. Finklenburg, R. Fuentes, T. Gries, S. Hendiani, S. Herlé, S. Hesseler, M. Kimm, J. C. Kirchhof, B. Rumpe, H. Schüttrumpf, G. Walther:
  Integrating Models of Civil Structures in Digital Twins: State-of-the-Art and Challenges. In: Journal of Infrastructure Intelligence and Resilience, Volume 3(3), DOI 10.1016/j.iintel.2024.100100, Elsevier, Sep. 2024.

• [MSW24] J. Michael, M. Schwammberger, A. Wortmann:
  Explaining Cyberphysical System Behavior with Digital Twins. In: IEEE Software, Volume 41(1), pp. 55-63, DOI 10.1109/MS.2023.3319580, IEEE, Jan. 2024.

• [CJP+23] B. Combemale, J. Jézéquel, Q. Perez, D. Vojtisek, N. Jansen, J. Michael, F. Rademacher, B. Rumpe, A. Wortmann, J. Zhang:
  Model-Based DevOps: Foundations and Challenges. In: Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), pp. 429–433, ACM/IEEE, Oct. 2023.

Essays

• Definition of Digital Twins