The IEEE E-TEMS 2025 Conference successfully took place at KU Leuven Campus Bruges from 26.05.2025 till 28.05.2025.
Started with the Welcoming reception and networking activities on 26th of 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 talking 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 in KU Leuven, was giving a presentation on “Combinatorial optimization: applications in Logistics”. Also, Sergey Bushuyev, professor and Head of the Project Management Department at 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 the two full days the participants have been involved into vivid discussions, workshops and presentations on such topics 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. Significant amount of papers were 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 into 59 papers that were presented in during the IEEE E-TEMS 2025 Conference. From all the past years of IEEE E-TEMS series there were representatives from 55 different countries!!!
The IEEE E-TEMS evolved through years from onsite (in 2020) to online (in 2021 and 2022) and then to the combination of both in 2023 and 2025. The hybrid format of the event allowed people to participate from home and in present in Bruges. This was supported by many online, on-site and hybrid elements of the conference such as online poster session and livestreaming of the main conference elements.
It was a pleasure to see new participants who joined the E-TEMS conference in 2025 and to meet all the friends of the conference who have been participating since years in this event. 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).
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts significantly contributed in the conference programme with the great number of scientific papers, making the programme rich and broad:
- 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 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 ideas, questions and proposals where engineering, management, smart regions & cities, digital transformation and projects meet with the needs of society and citizens
