The 15th International Modelica Conference is organized as an in-person event, held in the city of Aachen, Germany from October 9-11, 2023. It is organized by The institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, RWTH Aachen University, in cooperation with the Modelica Association.

Registration

Here you can find all information about the conference registration and Hotel contingent. The registration deadline is October 6th. If you want to register after this deadline, you can register on-site.

Schedule

The Modelica conference is a three day event, starting on Monday, October 9th until Wednesday October 11th.

                                                                                     

Date	Program	Times
09.10.23	Tutorials, Workshops and Vendor Presentations, Exhibition	1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
10.10.23	Parallel Sessions, FMI user meeting and industrial user presentations, Exhibition	9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
11.10.23	Parallel Sessions, Exhibition	9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

You can find a more detailed overview of all sessions on the conftool website. After the conference, on thursday, October 12th, the Modelica design meeting takes place in Aachen. This meeting is not part of the conference.

Time	Program
08:30 - 09:30	General MA Q&A
08:30 - 11:30	IBPSA Project 2: BOPTEST
09:30 - 12:00	FMI & eFMI Meeting
09:30 - 12:00	Lang & Lib Meeting
12:00	Lunch
13:30 - 16:00	IBPSA Working Group Meeting

The Modelica Association, MAP FMI and MAP eFMI meetings are open to guests and provide an opportunity to get in contact with the Modelica Association and its projects and publicly discuss ideas, feedback, requirements and new use cases. If you plan to participate please write to:

• FMI meeting: contact@fmi-standard.org.
• eFMI meeting:
  • efmi-info@googlegroups.com (public mailing list, others can see your application/interest)
  • Christoff.Buerger@3ds.com (private e-mail address of MAP eFMI project leader, if you do not want your mail in public space)
• MAP-Lang:
  • modelica-design@googlegroups.com (public mailing list, others can see your application/interest)
  • Hans.Olsson@3ds.com (private e-mail address of MAP-Lang project leader, if you do not want your mail in public space).
• IBPSA or BOBTEST: Registration Link (open until September 30th)
• Other meetings: backoffice@modelica.org

If you send Questions in advance we will be better prepared to discuss them.

Conference Venue

The conference will take place at the event location Das Liebig, Aachen. Das Liebig Liebigstrasse 19 52070 Aachen

Das Liebig and Charles are the main conference locations where all tutorials, vendor presentations and paper sessions take place. Lunch and dinner will be in Halle 60.

DIRECTIONS - BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

There are two bus stops close to the conference location with the following lines:
Lukasstraße (4 minute walk): 34
Liebigstraße (9 minute walk): 1,11,21,31,41,52, 70, 220, SB20

DIRECTIONS - BY CAR & BIKE

There are several free car and bike parking spots available.

Please find information about nearby hotels on the conference registration site.

About the Conference

The Modelica Conference is the main event for users, library developers, tool vendors and language designers to share their knowledge and learn about the latest scientific and industrial progress related to Modelica, FMI, SSP, and DCP. The program will cover modeling of complex physical and cyber-physical systems, as well as tools, for a wide range of research and industrial applications.

In addition to paper presentations, the conference features several Modelica tutorials for beginners and advanced users, as well as industrial user presentations, vendor sessions, and an exhibition of the conferences’ sponsors. The previous Modelica conference in 2021 was held as an online conference hosted by the Linköping University, Sweden. The previous in-person Modelica conference in 2019 in Regensburg, Germany, was attended by more than 400 participants from all over the world, and we are looking forward welcoming interested participants to this years conference in Aachen.

Scope of the Conference

Modelica is a freely available, equation-based, object-oriented language for convenient and efficient modeling of complex, multi-domain cyber-physical systems described by ordinary differential, difference and algebraic equations. The Modelica language and the companion Modelica Standard Library have been utilized in demanding industrial applications, including full vehicle dynamics, power systems, robotics, hardware-in-the-loop simulations and embedded control systems. The Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) is an open standard for the tool-independent exchange of models and for co-simulation. It is supported by many Modelica and non-Modelica tools and is the key to utilizing Modelica models in non-Modelica environments.

Development in the Modelica Association is organized in Modelica Association Projects:

• LANG - Modelica Language
• LIB - Modelica Libraries
• FMI - Functional Mockup Interface
• SSP - System Structure and Parameterization of Components for Virtual System Design
• DCP - Distributed Co-Simulation Protocol
• eFMI - Functional Mock-up Interfaces for embedded systems

The projects collaborate to design and maintain a set of coordinated standards for modeling and simulation of complex physical systems.

The Modelica conference will bring together people using Modelica and/or other Modelica Association standards modeling, simulation, and control applications, Modelica language designers, tool vendors and library developers. The Modelica Conference provides Modelica users the opportunity to stay informed about the latest language, library, and tool developments, and to get in touch with people working on similar modeling problems. The conference will cover topics such as the following:

• Multi-engineering modeling and simulation with free and commercial Modelica libraries (mechanics, electrical, hydraulics, thermal, fluid, media, chemical, building, automotive, aircraft, …)
• Automotive applications
• Thermodynamic and energy systems applications
• Mechatronics and robotics applications
• Medicine and biology applications
• Other industrial applications, such as electric drives, power systems, aerospace, etc.
• Large-scale system modeling
• Real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulation
• Simulation and code generation for embedded control systems
• Simulation acceleration by use of many CPU cores or GPU cores
• Applications of Modelica for optimization and optimal control
• Modelica modeling, simulation and design tools
• Symbolic algorithms and numerical methods for model transformation and simulation
• Discrete modeling techniques − FEM, CFD, DEM (Discrete Element Method), …
• New features of the Modelica language and of FMI
• Experimental language designs and implementations related to Modelica
• Modelica in other application areas (mathematical programming, databases etc.)
• Modelica for teaching and education
• FMI in Modelica and non-Modelica applications and tools

Call for paper

Here you can find all information about the call for paper. You can upload your paper using the conference tool . The timeline for paper submission is: The paper submission is closed.

We would like to thank all reviewers, who contributed a total of 297 reviews and assured the scientific quality of this conference. You find the list of reviewers here.

Organization and Contact

The conference is organized by The institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, RWTH Aachen University, in cooperation with the Modelica Association. For general questions, please send an email to: mc15@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

Conference board:

• Prof. Dirk Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Conference chair)
• Prof. Antonello Monti, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Prof. Andrea Benigni, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
• Prof. Martin Otter, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany
• Prof. Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Assistant Prof. Martin Sjölund, Linköping University, Sweden
• Dr. Michael Tiller, Realis Simulation, U.S.A.