[CfP][DTSSB 2026] 2nd International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings

[massimo.callisto]

Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings (DTSSB 2026)

Co-located with BIR 2026
Olten, Switzerland
October 7, 2026

Workshop website:
https://pros.unicam.it/dtssb/

Submission:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2026


== About the workshop ==

Smart buildings are evolving into complex socio-technical systems where IoT infrastructures generate large volumes of heterogeneous data, enabling advanced approaches such as Digital Twins, Artificial Intelligence (AI), semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, and process mining.

From an ontology and semantic technologies perspective, smart buildings raise important research challenges related to semantic interoperability, knowledge representation, data integration, and context-aware reasoning over heterogeneous building data.

DTSSB 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore methods, models, architectures, and technologies supporting the design, integration, operation, and governance of smart and sustainable buildings.

The workshop welcomes conceptual, technical, application-oriented, and case-study contributions related to digital technologies for smart and sustainable buildings.


== Topics ==

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Semantic models and ontologies for Smart Buildings
- Knowledge Graphs for integrated building information management
- Semantic interoperability between BIM, IoT, Digital Twins, and facility management systems
- Ontology-based modeling of Smart Building systems and services
- Semantic data integration for heterogeneous building data
- Context-aware reasoning and decision support in Smart Building systems
- Digital Twins and IoT for Smart Buildings
- Hybrid AI approaches combining generative AI, symbolic reasoning, and semantic models
- Explainable AI for Smart Buildings
- Process mining and semantic analysis of IoT data
- Data governance, privacy, and security in Smart Building platforms
- Data analytics and decision support for Smart Buildings
- Energy efficiency and building operation optimization
- Facility management and building operation optimization
- Case studies and industrial applications


== Important dates ==

Paper submission: July 30, 2026 (AoE)
Notification: August 30, 2026
Workshop date: October 7, 2026
Camera-ready submission: October 30, 2026

All dates are AoE.


== Submission guidelines ==

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English.

The workshop welcomes the submission of regular papers and short papers:

- Regular papers: 11-15 pages
- Short papers: 6-10 pages

Submissions must be made via EasyChair, using the workshop track:
"2nd International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings"

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2026


== Publication ==

Accepted papers will appear in CEUR-WS proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal special issue.

Further details are available on the workshop website:
https://pros.unicam.it/dtssb/


== Organizers ==

Massimo Callisto De Donato, University of Camerino, Italy
Emanuele Laurenzi, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Sebastiano Maltese, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland
Lorenzo Rossi, University of Camerino, Italy