News
Date is the 30th of October, and Agenda is online
Submission deadline extended to 28th of August
Submission is now online
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
- Distributed and secure IoT architectures
- Federated data governance and interoperability
- Service ecosystems supporting circular business models
- Digital Product Passport Data Services and Ecosystems Technical enablers of traceability, transparency, and lifecycle tracking
- Smart and Digital Supply chains
- Interoperability of Data Space Technologies
- Distributed data architectures for DPPs
- Decentralised Governance
- Secure data exchange with self-sovereign identities
- Identity management for DPPs
- Data intermediaries
- DPP supporting technologies such as data provision devices and applications
- Economic Theory and Game Theory
- Data Mining and (Big) Data Analysis
- Data Space Architectures
- Multi-Access Edge Computing
- Operations and Business Support Systems
- Distributed Ledger Technology
- Digital Twins for Networks and Services
- Secure and Dependable Networking
- Cloud/Edge Computing Services
- Data Services
- Internet of Things Services
- Security Services
- Context-Aware Services
- Information Technology Services
- Security Management
- Centralized Management
- Hierarchical Management
- Distributed Management
- Federated Management
- Autonomic and Cognitive Management
- Policy- and Intent-Based Management
Agenda Draft (TBC)
| Time | Session | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00–10:30 | Welcome and Keynotes Chair: Silke Palkovits-Rauter | Keynote-1: TBC |
| Keynote-2: TBC | ||
| #340 · 1571347186 From Reference Profiles to Applicable Products: Locating DPP Contributions in Infrastructure LCA Presenter: Yazzed Abdalla | ||
| 10:30–11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Chair: Yazzed Abdalla | #326 · 1571344693 — Explainable AI-Based Service and Provider Discovery for Digital Product Passport Ecosystems Presenter: Belal Abu Naim |
| #344 · 1571347268 — Custody Without Capture: A Full-Stack Data Intermediary for Digital Product Passports Presenter: Silke Palkovits-Rauter | ||
| #309 · 1571343435 — An Adaptive Data Model for Digital Product Passports Based on Property Graphs Presenter: Belal Abu Naim | ||
| 12:30–13:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:30–15:00 | Chair: Belal Abu Naim | #351 · 1571347629 — A Regulation-Anchored Taxonomy of Execution Properties for Circular-Economy Process Models Presenter: Imre Kocsis |
| #313 · 1571343875 — Transforma-2: Evaluation-Driven Graph-RAG for IEC 61131-3 Code Generation at the Industrial Edge Presenter: Yazzed Abdalla | ||
| #349 · 1571347546 — Replay-Sound and Practical Compositional Data Veracity for Circular Economies Presenter: Imre Kocsis | ||
| 15:00–15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:30–17:00 | Panel Discussion and Round Table | |
Remark: For allocation and further information please see the main conference: CNSM 2026 - 22nd International Conference on Network and Service Management - Program
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline:
August 14August 31, 2026 - Author Notification: September 18, 2026
- Camera-Ready Submission: September 25, 2026
Submissions should use the IEEE 2-column conference style.
Paper limit: 6 pages (regular), 4 pages (position papers), including references
Papers will be made available via IEEE Xplore and IFIP
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
- Bergmair Bernhard, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria
Submission & Website
Workshop Website: https://decode.icb.at
Paper Submission via EDAS: https://edas.info/N35567
Conference registration https://edas.info/r35567
Pay conference invoice https://edas.info/P35567
Call for Papers: DECODE2026-CFP.pdf
Webpage 2025 (link)
Technical Co-Sponsors
Contact
For inquiries, please contact:
markus.tauber@researchstudio.at