TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Modeling in the Analysis and Design of Sustainable Systems
T2 - A Panel Report
AU - Bork, Dominik
AU - España, Sergio
AU - Proper, Henderik A.
AU - David, Istvan
AU - Guizzardi, Giancarlo
AU - Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the Association for Information Systems.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - 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 the conflicts among the perspectives, their effects, and potential resolutions.
AB - 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 the conflicts among the perspectives, their effects, and potential resolutions.
KW - Information systems engineering
KW - Circular systems engineering
KW - Digitalization
KW - Digital twins
KW - Ethics
KW - Degrowth and IT
KW - Modeling
KW - Model-driven engineering
KW - Model-based systems engineering
KW - Sustainability
KW - Systems engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85199313240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17705/1CAIS.05434
DO - 10.17705/1CAIS.05434
M3 - Article
SN - 1529-3181
VL - 54
SP - 911
EP - 936
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
ER -