Dr. Wilfrid Utz

Dr. Wilfrid Utz is one of the managing directors of OMiLAB NPO (www.omilab.org), the non-profit organisation headquartered in Berlin supporting the conceptual modelling community organized around emerging topics with repect to domain-specific conceptual modelling. Wilfrid completed his PhD thesis at the University of Vienna in the field of metamodel design and knowledge representation using conceptual structures.He has been involved in numerous international research and innovation projects and gained vast experience in the field of modelling method conceptualisation, design and implementation of modelling tools using the open ADOxx Metamodelling Platform (www.adoxx.org).

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	Title ▲	Year	Contributing OMiLAB
	BEDe: A Modelling Tool for Business Ecosystems Design with ADOxx	2021	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_49 Authors: Maria-Sophie Schoder and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_49 Book: Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks 4.0 Editors: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and Xavier Boucher and Hamideh Afsarmanesh
	The OMiLAB Digital Innovation environment: Agile conceptual models to bridge business value with Digital and Physical Twins for Product-Service Systems development	2022	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Journal Article URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166361522000264 Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2022.103631
	Business Processes as a Service (BPaaS): A model-based approach to align business with cloud offerings	2015	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Proceedings Article URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7441064/ Authors: Robert Woitsch and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: IEEE DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/eCHALLENGES.2015.7441064 Book: eChallenges e-2015 Conference
	Modeling Learning Data for Feedback and Assessment	2016	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_25 Authors: Peter Reimann and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_25 Book: Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Editors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Heinrich C. Mayr and John Mylopoulos
	Design Semantics on Accessibility in Unstructured Data Environments	2016	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_4 Authors: Nicholas Roussopoulos and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_4 Book: Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Editors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Heinrich C. Mayr and John Mylopoulos
	Modeling Method Conceptualization within OMiLAB: The Secure Tropos Case	2017	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Abstract. Development of domain specific modeling languages is observed by a growing number of groups emphasizing the implementation of individual modeling languages, methods and approaches for a variety of application domains. Domain orientation allows to express focused models using tailored domain concepts. To raise benefits of domain-specific modeling and in particular the use of developed models, tool support must not be limited to model editors realizing a certain language, but instead must provide full-fledged functionality for domain-specific modeling methods. This paper introduces the Open Models Laboratory (OMiLAB, www.omilab.org), an open environment for method engineering and tool development. In particular, the paper reports on the Secure Tropos method engineering case in OMiLAB, realized using the ADOxx meta-modeling platform as an implementation environment. Secure Tropos is a security-aware software systems development methodology, which combines requirements engineering concepts with security engineering concepts under an unified process to support the analysis and development of secure and trustworthy software systems. Type: Proceedings Article URL: https://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/5120/ Authors: Dominik Bork and Michalis Pavlidis and Wilfrid Utz
	Metamodels as a Conceptual Structure: Some Semantical and Syntactical Operations	2019	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-06234-7_8 Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Dominik Bork and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06234-7_8 Book: The Art of Structuring Editors: Katrin Bergener and Michael Räckers and Armin Stein
	A Metamodeling Approach to Support the Engineering of Modeling Method Requirements	2019	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Proceedings Article URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8920624/ Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Patrik Burzynski and Wilfrid Utz and Robert Andrei Buchmann Publisher: IEEE DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2019.00030 Book: 2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
	Design of a Domain-Specific Metamodel for Industrial Business Process Management	2019	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Proceedings Article URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8992599/ Authors: Wilfrid Utz Publisher: IEEE DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2019.00167 Book: 2019 8th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI)
	CE-SIB: A Modelling Method Plug-in for Managing Standards in Enterprise Architectures	2017	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_2 Authors: Christoph Moser and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz and Dimitris Karagiannis Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_2 Book: Conceptual Modeling Editors: Heinrich C. Mayr and Giancarlo Guizzardi and Hui Ma and Oscar Pastor
	A Toolbox Supporting Agile Modelling Method Engineering: ADOxx.org Modelling Method Conceptualization Environment	2016	OMiLAB@University of Vienna
Type: Book Section URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-48393-1_23 Authors: Nesat Efendioglu and Robert Woitsch and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer International Publishing DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48393-1_23 Book: The Practice of Enterprise Modeling Editors: Jennifer Horkoff and Manfred A. Jeusfeld and Anne Persson
	The OMiLAB Digital Innovation environment: Agile conceptual models to bridge business value with Digital and Physical Twins for Product-Service Systems development	2022	OMiLAB@UBB FSEGA
Abstract. OMiLAB is a community of practice which offers a digital ecosystem bringing together open technologies to investigate and apply conceptual modeling methods for varying purposes and domains. One of the core value propositions is a dedicated Digital Innovation environment comprising several toolkits and workspaces, designed to support Product-Service Systems (PSS) prototyping – a key ingredient for PSS lifecycle management. At the core of this environment is a notion of Agile Digital Twin – a conceptual representation that can be tailored with knowledge engineering means to bridge the semantic and functional gap between a business perspective (focusing on value creation) and an engineering perspective (focusing on cyber-physical proofs-of-concept). To facilitate this bridging, the hereby proposed environment orchestrates, across three abstraction layers, methods such as Design Thinking, Agile Modeling Method Engineering and Model-driven Engineering to turn Ideation into smart Product-Service Systems experiments, in a laboratory setting. The proposed environment was built following Design Science principles. It addresses the problem of historically-disconnected skills required for Digital Innovation projects and it provides a testbed for feasibility experimentation. For design-oriented, artifact building research, a higher Technology Readiness Level can thus be achieved (compared to the level that idea development methods typically attain). Type: Journal Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166361522000264 Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2022.103631
	A BPM Lifecycle Plug-in for Modeling Methods Agility	2019	OMiLAB@UBB FSEGA
Type: Proceedings Article URL: https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2020/org_transformation_is/org_transformation_is/2/ Authors: Utz, W., Buchmann, R.A., Bork, D. and Karagiannis, D. Book: Proceedings of AMCIS 2020
	A Metamodeling Approach to Support the Engineering of Modeling Method Requirements	2019	OMiLAB@UBB FSEGA
Type: Proceedings Article Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Patrik Burzynski and Wilfrid Utz and Robert Andrei Buchmann DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2019.00030 Book: 2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
	CE-SIB: A Modelling Method Plug-in for Managing Standards in Enterprise Architectures	2017	OMiLAB@UBB FSEGA
Abstract. In Enterprise Architecture (EA) Management, adoption of standards brings essential benefits pertaining to compatibility and repeatability but also raises governance challenges. EA frameworks recommend placing architecture artifacts under strict governance to control technological diversity towards reduced costs of operation or business-IT alignment; however, they do not provide methodological guidance on how to support decision-making for standards management. Business process management, model-driven software engineering or IT service management do address such challenges, but fall short in covering all relevant architectural layers. Driven by industry experience, this paper proposes a modelling method plug-in (“function block'') to support a model-based integration of practices for standards compliance management and their relevant model bases. It also aims for generality, as the proposal is pluggable through “semantic docking points'' to arbitrary EA frameworks. A prototypical implementation in the form of a modelling tool is discussed as an expository instantiation, as well as basis for evaluation and learned lessons. Type: Proceedings Article URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_2 Authors: Christoph Moser and Robert Andrei Buchmann and Wilfrid Utz and Dimitris Karagiannis Publisher: Springer International Publishing Book: Conceptual Modeling Editors: Heinrich C. Mayr and Giancarlo Guizzardi and Hui Ma and Oscar Pastor
	Specification of FAIRWork Use Case and DAI-DSS Prototype Report – D2.1	2022	FAIRWork Project
Abstract. Deliverable D2.1 specifies the design requirements for the first relevant stage in the Horizon Europe project FAIRWork aiming at fair decision making within complex systems in the production domain. From the planned use cases of the industrial partners – FLEX “Automated Test Building”, “Worker Allocation”, “Machine Maintenance After Breakdown” and CRF “Workload Balance”, “Delay of Material” and “Quality Issues” – the report constitutes and specifies the basic design decisions for research and development directions in the project. A major contribution is the provision of the initial architecture of an innovative service framework for decision support systems. The first part of the report is dedicated to the design thinking approach as an efficient choice for the analysis of user requirements. The planned use case scenarios were primarily examined from a user-driven perspective. In several workshops a participatory process was applied in order to deduce the most substantial design decisions from the results of the highly interactive sessions. A model-based approach of the design process was chosen in order to determine the user requirements that were consequently defined and described in detail. In this way, the knowledge about a use case was externalised in the form of conceptual representations, using domain-specific modelling languages that are suitable and provide the required construct for representation and processing. In a further step, the high-level scenarios were designed in a collaborative, interactive, and agile environment involving experts from different backgrounds. Processes are the outcome of this structured approach requiring support for: “finding similar projects”, “find relevant experts”, “simulate production process”, “allocate worker”, “map workers with profiles”, “find similar problems”, “reschedule production line”, “allocate order to production line”, “assess the impact”. In the second part, we give an overview about the key challenges of FAIRWork. In the current production industry there is a need to make the current automated and hierarchical structured production processes more flexible. At the same time digitalization with AI support is seen as a key enabler for more energy efficient and resource efficient services, products or business models, by also enabling process optimization in the overall production process. Therefore, we describe in more detail the main challenges technical challenges such as configuration, resource allocation, and selection aspects. These three challenges are highly relevant for making the process more flexible, adaptive, and resource efficient by using the relevant AI-based decision strategies in our complex distributed decision-making. At the end, the trustworthy AI aspect is a further key challenge to get AI accepted by the involved humans and also utilize its potential. In the third part, the overall methodology of making complex decision-making is outlined. Within this chapter, we describe the overall procedure for implementing complex decision-making processes. Therefore, this chapter gives an overview about relevant concepts for the research direction and implementation of such complex decision making by using AI services. In FAIRWork, AI is used in all our scenarios to automate processes or to make their processes more resource-efficient. Since humans are an important part of the overall decision process, trust in AI and human factors plays an essential role, therefore these aspects are explained. Finally, the technical concepts for a concrete implementation such as digital knowledge base, digital twin, digital shadow, will be discussed as well. Finally, it follows the explanation about the orchestration of decision-making processes by using Microservices. In the fourth part, the initial architecture of the project is presented based on the overall project objectives and requirements. Key components of the FAIRWork service framework are motivated, described, and their relevant features are presented. A detailed description of these components is given in Deliverable D4.1 including the technical implementation of the basic core services or application specific services. Finally, the initial design of the FAIRWork’s architecture is compared with most relevant technical architectures that are commonly used in the industry environment domain, such as, Gaia-X, FIWARE, International Data Space, and RAMI. Type: Technical Report URL: https://fairwork-project.eu/deliverables/D2.1_Specification%20of%20FAIRWork-v1.0a-preliminary.pdf Authors: Aleassandro Cisi, Roland Sitar, Wilfrid Utz, Christian Muck, Patrik Burzynski, Robert Woitsch, Magdalena Dienstl, Marlene Mayr, Remi Lanza, Rishyank Chevuri, Sylwia Olbrych, Johanna Werz, Alexander Nasuta, Stefan Böschen, Noushin Gheibi, Higor Rosse, Lucas Paletta Editors: Herwig Zeiner
	FAIRWork Exploitation Tools (Website, Social Media, Flyer) – D8.1	2023	FAIRWork Project
Abstract. This report is the accompanying document for deliverable 8.1 (D8.1), in which communication and exploitation tools were created and instantiated for the FAIRWork project. They will be used to communicate information during the project runtime and support exploitation of created artefacts within and after the project runtime. Additionally, the document discusses the FAIRWork innovation shop, which is not yet available, but will be established in D8.2. The following list provides an overview of the tools, which are discussed in this document and includes important links to where they can be found: – Website: https://fairwork-project.eu/ – Flyer: https://zenodo.org/record/7677298/files/FAIRWork_Flyer_1.0.pdf?download=1 – Brochure: https://zenodo.org/record/7673832/files/FAIRWork_Brochure_1.0.pdf?download=1 – Social Media: + LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairwork-project/ + Twitter: https://twitter.com/fairwork_eu + YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fairwork_eu – Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/fairwork/ – Webinars: + Publicly available webinar recordings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDKnDRTHllZrGrXZsiePXmvylV1gHvh9K + Event subpage of the webpage (including the webinars): https://fairwork-project.eu/events/ – Innovation Shop: https://fairwork-project.eu/innovation-shop/ (future link) Type: Technical Report URL: https://fairwork-project.eu/deliverables/D8.1-FAIRWork%20Exploitation%20Tools_1.0_preliminary.pdf Authors: Wilfrid Utz, Christian Muck, Patrik Burzynski, Michael Car Editors: Christian Muck
	Product-Service Design for Factory of the Future: The OMiLAB Community of Practice	2024	Playground Node
Abstract. The digital era requires a re-evaluation of the infrastructures, networks, and processes needed in designing and managing innovative solutions. Within this context, experimentation environments are necessary for facilitating collaboration, knowledge transfer, and idea generation among stakeholders from various domains in a joint effort. The OMiLAB Community of Practice operates in and is supported at conceptual and technical levels by such an environment, actively enabling knowledge transfer through a wide range of activities. The core component of the community is the Digital Innovation Environment powered by OMiLAB. Conceptual modelling is the shared domain of the community, and it is utilized to connect the business world and the digital world with physical devices. This paper discusses the human–machine interaction challenge of the digital era and the three elements that are required to tackle it. As main contributions, a product-service design case driven by the OMiLAB Community of Practice for the Factory of the Future (FoF) ecosystem is presented. The findings are based on the community experience and their work as part of the EU-funded projects DigiFoF and CoDEMO 5.0. Type: Proceedings Article Authors: Iulia Vaidian and Xavier Boucher and Wilfrid Utz Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland Book: Leading and Managing in the Digital Era Editors: Gregory Prastacos and Nancy Pouloudi
	A Metamodeling Approach to Support the Engineering of Modeling Method Requirements	2019	Playground Node
Type: Proceedings Article Authors: Dimitris Karagiannis and Patrik Burzynski and Wilfrid Utz and Robert Andrei Buchmann Book: 2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)