Title
Generating customized low-code development platforms for digital twins
Abstract
A digital twin improves our use of a cyber–physical system and understanding of its emerging behavior. To this effect, a digital twin is to be developed and configured and potentially also operated by domain experts, who rarely have a professional software engineering background and for whom easy access and support, e.g., in form of low-code platforms are missing. In this paper, we report on an integrated method for the model-driven engineering of low-code development platforms for digital twins that enables domain experts to create and operate digital twins for cyber–physical systems using the most appropriate modeling languages. The foundation of this method is (1) a code generation infrastructure for information systems combined with (2) an extensible base architecture for self-adaptive digital twins and (3) reusable language components for their configuration. Using this method, software engineers first configure the information system with the required modeling languages to generate the low-code development platform for digital twins before domain experts leverage the generated platform to create digital twins. This two-step method facilitates creating tailored low-code development platforms as well as creating and operating customized digital twins for a variety of applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.cola.2022.101117
Journal of Computer Languages
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital twin,Low-code development platform,Domain-specific languages,Model-driven engineering,Code generation
Journal
70
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2590-1184
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuela Dalibor162.15
Malte Heithoff210.37
Judith Michael310.37
Lukas Netz412.40
Jérôme Pfeiffer512.06
Bernhard Rumpe62691313.45
Simon Varga743.50
Andreas Wortmann810.37