Aurora Macías

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2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-1398-8826ORCID · corroborated

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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Design Decisions for Architecting Digital Twins of Microservices-Based Systems
Aurora Macías, Evangelos Ntentos, Uwe Zdun, Elena Navarro 0001
SEAA (3)1
2023 Architecting Digital Twins Using a Domain-Driven Design-Based Approach
abstract
The Digital Twin (DT) concept has overcome its initial definition based on a purely descriptive approach focusing on modelling physical objects, often using CAD. Today DT often describes a behavioural approach that can simulate an object’s dynamics, monitor its state, and control or predict its behaviour. Although DTs are attracting significant attention and offer many advantages in the design of especially cyber-physical systems, most proposals have focused on developing DTs for a specific use case or need without providing a more holistic approach to its design. We aim to propose a domain-agnostic approach for architecting DTs. Here, DTs are directly supported by Domain-Driven Design’s notion of Bounded Contexts (BCs), hiding all the domain-inherent specifications behind BC boundaries. These BCs are also the central abstraction in many microservice architectures and can be used to describe DTs. A Wind Turbine DT architecture is used as a running example to describe how every relevant DT property can be satisfied following our proposal for architecting digital twins. A qualitative evaluation of this case by five external practitioners shows that our DDD-based proposal consistently outperforms the 5-dimension model used as the reference approach.
Aurora Macías, Elena Navarro 0001, Carlos E. Cuesta, Uwe Zdun
ICSA1