The IEEE E-TEMS 2025 Conference successfully took place at the KU Leuven Campus Bruges from 26th .May to 28th May 2025.
Starting with the welcoming reception and networking activities on 26th May, the conference continued on the next two days with keynote presentations about the logistics in Smart Cities. The CEO from Eutraco, Serge Gregoir shared with the participants insights about “How to Build a Business in Carbon-Neutral Logistics”. Dirk Staelens, project leader from Flemish Innovation Cluster for Logistics, was about “The Future of Collaboration in Logistics: Leveraging Technology for Efficient and Sustainable Supply Chains”.
Tony Wauters, associate Professor at the CODeS research group, Department of Computer Science at the KU Leuven, was giving a presentation on “Combinatorial Optimization: Applications in Logistics”. Also, Sergey Bushuyev, professor and Head of the Project Management Department at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, founder and President of Ukrainian Project Management Association (UPMA), gave his keynote about “Thinking SMART Project Management Based on the TRIZ Principles in an AI Environment”.
During these two dynamic conference days, the participants have been involved into vivid discussions, workshops and presentations on topics such as Digital Transformation, Engineering Smart Systems, Developing Smart Regions, Being Mobile in Smart Regions, Sustainable & Circular Economy, Achieving Quality of Life in Smart Cities through Projects, Education in Engineering & Management, Modern Project Management in Smart Regions and Resilience of Organisations, Networks and Cities. There was a significant number of papers dedicated to the topic of Artificial Intelligence in different fields of application.
In total, 220 authors from 58 universities and organisations from 26 different countries contributed to 59 papers that were presented throughout the IEEE E-TEMS 2025 Conference. Since its inception, the IEEE E-TEMS series has brought together representatives from 55 different countries!
Over the years, IEEE E-TEMS has evolved from an onsite event in 2020 to fully online editions in 2021 and 2022, and later to a hybrid format in 2023 and 2025. This hybrid format allowed participants to join either remotely from home or in person. This was supported by many online, on-site and hybrid elements of the conference such as online poster session or the livestreaming of the main conference elements.
It was a pleasure to welcome new participants, who joined this year’s E-TEMS Conference for the first time, and to meet all the friends again, who have been participating this event regularly. The E-TEMS 2025 Conference also hosted the EuroPIM representatives: the submissions to the conference were made by authors from partner universities of KU Leuven (Belgium), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU, Lithuania), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain).
The Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts has also significantly contributed to the conference, enriching the programme with its great number of scientific papers:
- Anzhelika Parkhomenko, Carsten Wolff, Artem Tulenkov, Yulii Horichenko, Oleg Pozdnyakov, Andriy Parkhomenko and Illia Parkhomenko. “Methods and Models for the Intelligent Digital Platform of the Green University”
- Anzhelika Parkhomenko, Artem Tulenkov, Anastasiia Yatsenko, Carsten Wolff, Andriy Parkhomenko and Illia Parkhomenko. “Detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on Acoustic Data Processing”
- Philipp Heisig and Sabine Sachweh. “Generating Simulation Configurations from Scenario Models: A Model-Driven Approach for Testing Cloud-Based Mobility Services”
- Marco Hecktor and Sabine Sachweh. “Towards a Conceptual Framework for Greener Software Systems”
- Andreas Diepenbrock and Sabine Sachweh. “Towards a Conceptual Framework for Data Protection Impact Assessments of Smart City Data Ecosystems”
- Marcel Mitas and Sabine Sachweh. “Lifelong Learning in Software Engineering: Towards an AI-driven Tutor for Cloud-Based Software Architectures”
- Jonas Fleck, Felix Katzenberg and Sabine Sachweh. “Leveraging Edge Computing for IoT Device Observability in Smart City Environments”
- Muhammad Kemal Rais, Anwesha Mukherjee and Jan Christoph Albrecht. “AI-Driven Personalisation of Project Management Learning Paths”
- Jubayer Alam, Jan Christoph Albrecht and Florian Rüttger. “Requirements Engineering in Digital Transformation Projects – A Single Case Study in the Healthcare Sector”
- Jan Christoph Albrecht. “Towards a Description of the Lifecycle of Digital Transformation Projects – Empirical Insights”
- Carsten Wolff, Peter Arras, Ruta Ciutene, Carolina Cruz, Jurga Duobienė, Ekaterina Hermann, Bassam Hussein, Maider Iturrondobeitia, Jan Ivens, Dennie Jansen, Iuliia Mende, Nargiza Mikhridinova, Bertha Ngereja, Christian Reimann, Thorsten Ruben, Daymy Tamayo Avila, Rahnuma Taranum, Nerea Toledo, Wim Van Petegem and Elena Vitkauskaite. “Projects for the Digital Transformation”
- Shazia Nadir Ali, Jan Christoph Albrecht, Carolina Cruz-Villazon, Maider Iturrondobeitia, Corinna Köbler, Rao Aamir Ali Khan, Mahnoor Minhas, Leila Salykova, Camillo Santa Cruz, Saara Sheneen, Nerea Toledo and Carsten Wolff. “Sustainable Project Management for Regional Development”
- Galyna Tabunshchyk, Peter Arras, Carolina Cruz-Villazon, Carsten Wolff and Iuliia Mende. “Educational Resources Development for the future workforce: from collaboration models to final release”
- Olexiy Kuzkin, Carsten Wolff, Serhii Tabunshchyk, Kinga Kornienko, Dariusz Mierzwinski and Rafal Bogucki. “Digital Transformations in Urban Mobility and Logistics”
- Momodou B Jallow and Ebrima Jaw. “Blockchain for Healthcare: A Patient-Centric Data Management Framework for Smart City Ecosystems”
- Björn Schäfer, Hugues Tchouankem, Lajos Kühn and Salim Sir. “Parking Space Occupancy Detection Using a Mobile Robot for an Urban Digital Twin”
- Anatoliy Sachenko, Svitlana Sachenko, Oleksii Iliuk, Dmytro Uhryn and Carsten Wolff. “Formation of Territorial Communities in Context of Radar-Based Drone Control”
IEEE E-TEMS 2025 would not be so reach and fruitful without the contribution of all the authors, reviewers, session chairs, conference chairs, organising team members, IT support and all the partners. We are grateful that you helped us to make the conference programme so diverse and broad!
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IEEE E-TEMS 2025 “Towards Smart Regions: Projects, Technologies and Logistics for the Future” is addressing the challenge of developing smart regions through projects. The quality of life in smart regions is the guiding principle for the presentations and discussions at the summit, taking a more holistic view at the projects and technologies. The participants of the conference will share their ideas, questions and proposals where engineering, management, smart regions & cities, digital transformation and projects meet the needs of society and citizens
