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collapsed:: true type:: REVIEWS tags:: year:: 2025 venue:: SEAA full-title:: An agent design pattern catalogue for the entanglement of Digital Twins date-start:: 22-06-2025 - 10:06 date-submitted:: external-links:: status:: DONE deadline-submission:: file:: @An agent design pattern catalogue for the entanglement of Digital Twins parent:: todoist:: https://app.todoist.com/app/task/12-elena-pretel-elena-navarro-victor-lopez-jaquero-pascual-gonzalez-and-schahram-6c9VMX9wg7XQVxh6
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- The paper presents a catalog of patterns to support the design of digital twins according to different levels of entanglement between physical entities and the corresponding digital twin.
My main concerns about the paper are its presentation and limited discussion of the strengths and limitations of the presented design patterns. In particular:
- While the catalog discusses well-known architectural patterns such as Observer, Publish-Subscribe, and Event Dispatcher, it remains unclear to what extent these have been modified or extended to suit the particular challenges of DTs. The paper mentions that the patterns are "adapted" to the context of DTs, but does not explain what these adaptations consist of. Are they structural, behavioral, related to scalability, or something else? Without this clarification, the reader is left questioning whether the contribution is a novel engineering solution or simply a "DT reinterpretation" of existing work.
- Another concern arises concerning the Grounded Theory (GT) methodology. The paper claims that its main contribution lies in combining SLR with GT to enrich the catalog of patterns. However, it remains unclear why the prior SLR conducted by the authors did not already address the entanglement aspect and what specific new insights were made possible exclusively through the GT component. This point is critical because it relates to the proposed pattern catalog's originality and empirical foundation. What was missing in the original SLR, and how was GT specifically employed to address those gaps?
- The paper introduces a decision model to guide architects in selecting the appropriate agent patterns to realize a desired level of entanglement. This idea is conceptually promising, but the practical details are not given. At what stage of the design process should this design model be used? What form does the model take (e.g., decision tree, rule set, software tool)? Providing an illustrative example would significantly help in assessing its relevance and usability.
In summary, while the paper raises important points about the use of MAS patterns in DT engineering and introduces potentially useful structuring elements (like a classification of entanglement levels and a decision model), its contributions are affected by the lack of specificity regarding pattern adaptation, methodological gaps in justifying the GT component, and limited elaboration on how its proposed decision model can be adopted in practice.
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