2026-08-04
Our paper has been accepted at the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf 2026)
Involving before Evolving: A Vision for Trustworthy Enterprise Digital Twin Engineering
Authors: Kérian Fiter, Adil Lagrou, Bentley Oakes
Preprint: Fiter2026Involving.pdf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3837062.3839094
Abstract: Enterprise Digital Twins (EDTs) promise data-driven decision support at organizational scale, but realizing them requires navigating siloed departments, tacit knowledge, and high-stakes decisions with long-horizon consequences. Existing approaches involve domain experts during model development but focus less on early organizational buy-in in EDTs. We present a vision for trustworthy EDT engineering grounded in an `involving before evolving’ paradigm: rapidly involving stakeholders through a working prototype before evolving toward federation and full interoperability. Our three-stage approach combines foundation models for rapid prototyping, an ontological backbone for federated interoperability, and observability tooling for stakeholder trust. We ground our vision in an ongoing collaboration with Michelin, a multinational manufacturer, where an initial prototype has helped support stakeholder buy-in.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Fiter2026,
author = {Fiter, K{\'e}rian and Lagrou, Adil and Oakes, Bentley and Dervault, Franck},
title = {Involving before Evolving: A Vision for Trustworthy Enterprise Digital Twin Engineering},
booktitle = {ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS Companion)},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
pages = {1--5},
doi = {10.1145/3837062.3839094},
keywords = {Enterprise Digital Twin, Digital Twin, What-if Analysis, Uncertainty, Trust, Federation, Ontologies, Foundation Models, Large Language Models},
note = {Accepted for publication; author pre-print available.},
}