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Title The Role of Modeling in the Analysis and Design of Sustainable Systems: A Panel Report
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Authors Bork, D; David, I; España, S; Guizzardi, G; Proper, HA; Reinhartz-Berger, I
Title The Role of Modeling in the Analysis and Design of Sustainable Systems: A Panel Report
Year 2024
Published
DOI 10.17705/1CAIS.05434
Abstract Sustainability should become a key concern in the next generation of engineered systems. While this expectation is relatively straightforward, the question of how to get there is less obvious. The multi-dimensional and intricate nature of sustainability poses challenges in designing sustainable systems and analyzing sustainability properties. Finding trade-offs between economic, environmental, societal, and technological aspects of sustainability is a wicked problem and calls for advanced modeling and simulation methods. In this paper, we report on a panel discussion held at the 28th Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD) with four esteemed experts representing four complementary and often conflicting perspectives on the role of modeling for sustainability - stakeholders, digitalization, degrowth and IT, and ethics. We report the key arguments of the panelists, discuss the roles of modeling in the analysis and design of sustainable systems, and, finally, elaborate on the conflicts among the perspectives, their effects, and potential resolutions.
Author Keywords Information Systems Engineering; Circular Systems Engineering; Digitalization; Digital Twins; Ethics; Degrowth and IT; Modeling; Model-Driven Engineering; Model-Based Systems Engineering; Sustainability; Systems Engineering
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:001249409600004
WoS Category Computer Science, Information Systems
Research Area Computer Science
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