2106. Panel Discussion : Can Digital Twins approach bring a better decision support tools adoption?
Invited abstract in session TD-26: Digital Twins : Sharing techniques, real cases and advice, stream Making an Impact: The Practitioners' Stream 1.
Tuesday, 14:30-16:00Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.33
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Anne Liret
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| R&T, British Telecom | |
| 2. | Faiyaz Doctor
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| Computational Intelligence Centre, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering | |
| 3. | Rasheed Hussain
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| Smart Internet Lab, Bristol Digital Futures Institute | |
| 4. | Luciana Blaha
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| Edinburgh Business School/Marketing & Operations, Heriot-Watt University | |
| 5. | Dennis Dokter
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| Research & Innovation Services, University of Leeds |
Abstract
The aim of this session is to provide attendees with some clues on what Digital Twins approach can bring to practitioners, how it could help getting stakeholders buy-in by visual modelling of their needs before running live optimisation, what aspects they should pay attention to, and sharing some use cases of Digital Twins combined with optimisation models.
In this session, attendees will hear from expert practitioners in Digital Twins and their applications in real world. Time will be reserved for discussing with subject matter experts so that attendees can take away knowledge useful to their work.
The first part aims at discovering how DT can help practitioners, mixing technical and application talks. We will hear from 2 experts in Digital Twins :
- Dr Fayiaz Doctor (university of Essex) who will share his long-running experience in using Digital Twins in real world decision-support domains. Fayiaz Doctor will talk about AI driven systems of systems from smart cities to industrial automation, and how it was applied to collaborative case studies on weather aware traffic monitoring systems in Singapore, VR/AR driven manufacturing automation.
- Dr. Rasheed Hussain from Bristol university who will share myths around Digital Twin technology, its uses and share how this technology can help enhancing security in networks decision-making systems.
In the second part, following the invited talks, subject matter experts and practitioners will join a panel discussion and will be able to discuss how DT may help in building decision support tools in real world and moving forward in their operational research problem.
Dr. Luciana Blaha will talk about the Human side of Digital Twinning, how we can conceptualise the relationship between humans and systems in the context of DTs, and what persuasion and configuration mean in this sense. Luciana Blaha is currently an Assistant Professor in Edinburgh Business School. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, member of the Chartered Management Institute, and part of the Editorial Board for Scottish University Press, and the Scottish AI Playbook and has over 10 years of industry work experience. Luciana’s research investigates Intelligent Automation systems (including AI, RPA and chatbots) and their impact on organisational behaviour, reuniting findings from science and technology studies, business management and computing science. Her work explores emerging behaviours and understandings of technology from the perspective of stakeholders within and outside the organisation.
Dr. Rasheed Hussain is a Senior Lecturer at the Smart Internet Lab, and Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), UK. With a strong research focus on cyber and network security, he specialises in Digital Twins for future networks and systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications in cybersecurity, and responsible AI practices. He is actively advancing Digital Twin Technology to enhance the security of future networks and Cyber-Physical Systems and co-leading project focusing on socio-digital futures of the high-performance networks. He also serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Dr. Faiyaz Doctor is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, U. K, head of the Intelligent Connected Societies Group and Chief Technology Officer at Interactive Coventry Ltd. Over the course of his career Dr Doctor has worked in both industrial and academia developing and applying AI driven or nature inspired Computational Intelligence approaches for human centred systems related to various real-world domains, such as predictive maintenance, digital content intelligence, intelligent transportation systems and smart healthcare. He also serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
Dr. Dennis Dokter, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, will discuss the importance of Digital Twins from a governance perspective. Dennis will share highlights about making sure the ecosystem for DT application is correctly mapped to technologies used.
Keywords
- Practice of OR
Status: accepted
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