News
Due to popular request, the submission deadline was extended to August 31st *firm*
Description
As the shift to a circular economy gains momentum, the DECODE Workshop addresses the need for digital foundations that promote sustainability, interoperability, and transparency. Core to this is the Digital Product Passport (DPP)—a digital tool enabling traceability and data sharing across product lifecycles.
This workshop invites original research and position papers on systems, architectures, and standards powering circularity through open digital enablers.
Topics of Interest
- Digital Product Passport data services & distributed architectures
- Federated data governance & interoperability
- Service ecosystems for circular business models
- Smart and digital supply chains
- Digital Twins and their management
- Traceability, transparency, and lifecycle tracking
- Self-sovereign identity and identity management for DPPs
- Data intermediaries and DPP-supporting devices
- Decentralized governance and data space architectures
- Multi-access edge computing
- Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS)
- ... see also CFP
Agenda
| Time | Paper/Talk (including 10 minutes Q&A) |
|---|---|
| 13:30–15:00 | Decode Session 1 (chair: Markus Tauber, RSA) |
| 13:40–14:30 | Keynote: PACE-DPP - Promoting and Accelerating a Digital Product Passport based Data-Service Ecosystem (Martin Benedikt, Virtual Vehicle Research Centre, Austria) |
| 14:30–15:00 | Intercompany Business Transaction Platform Architecture: Concept and Design (Pál Varga, Attila Frankó, Adam Mate) |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30–17:00 | Decode Session 2 (chair: Pál Varga, BME) |
| 15:30–16:00 | A Design Study on Embedding UNTP Semantics into AAS Submodels for Interoperable Digital Product Passports (Giray Havur, Tassilo Pellegrini, Gottfried Schenner, Francesco Fusco) |
| 16:00–16:30 | Compliance-by-Design: Validating Decentralised Architectures for Digital Product Passports under the EU Data Governance Act (Markus Tauber, Christoph Fabianek, Christoph Klikovits, Belal Abu Naim, Michael Boch, Martin Benedikt) |
| 16:30–17:00 | Exploring the Design Space and Research Directions for Digital Product Passport Systems (Stefan Kaser, Christian Lesjak, Rainer Matischek, Christian Steger) |
| 17:00 | Closing |
Remark: For allocation and further information please see the main conference: CNSM 2025 - 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management - Program
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline:
August 11, 2025August 31st, 2025 *firm* - Author Notification: September 16, 2025
- Camera-Ready Submission: September 21, 2025
Submissions should use the IEEE 2-column conference style.
Paper limit: 6 pages (regular), 4 pages (position papers), including references.
Organizing Committee
- Martin Benedikt – Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH
- Pal Varga – Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Markus Tauber – Research Studios Austria FG
Technical Program Committee (TPC)
- Martin Benedikt, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Austria
- Pál Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Markus Tauber, Research Studios Austria FG, Austria
- Gerald Reiner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Amin Anjomshoa, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Belal Abu Naim, Research Studios Austria FG, Austria
- Thomas Felberbauer, University of Applied Science St Pölten, Austria
- Emel Arikan Fichtinger, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Luca Davoli, University of Parma, Italy
Submission & Website
Workshop Website: https://decode.icb.at
Paper Submission via EDAS: https://edas.info/N34168
Call for Papers: DECODE2025-CFP.pdf
Technical Co-Sponsors
Contact
For inquiries, please contact:
markus.tauber@researchstudio.at