INTRODUCTION

Information Modelling (IM) has been under the spotlight of both academia and industry for decades. Important aspects of IM include methods and practices of representing concepts, relationships, constraints, rules and operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of interest. As a response to the IM challenge a number of modelling paradigms and languages arose and they range from ERM, UML, ORM to OWL and Knowledge Graphs and come with a wide range of systems to support the life cycle of information models. 

Despite the past success, existing approaches and systems for IM fail to cope with new challenges of overwhelming global industrial digitalization that requires advanced information models and aims at fully computerized, software-driven, automation of production processes and enterprise-wide integration of software components. Such trend and the technological and industrial developments that come with it are an important part of Industry 4.0 and industrial Internet of Things. It requires IM that, for example, allows to capture the functionality of and information flow between different assets in a plant, such as equipment and production processes. Moreover, it requires IM and models that are based on ISA and IEC standards and have a number of desirable properties, e.g., reusable, explainable, scalable, simulatable etc. Such IM should allow for seamless data sharing and integration e.g., via data market places and across value chains. 

These new challenges require new theory, methodology, best practice, systems and this should be developed, shared, and discussed by a wire range of stakeholders. In this workshop we aim at gathering researchers and practitioners who work on addressing these challenges with the help of semantic technologies. We in particular invite IM experts who are excited and committed to push the frontiers of IM further and support modern industry in its current technological transformation. In our workshop we welcome novel methods, systems, solutions, experience, and practice for semantic industrial information modelling.