DTSSB 2026

Nowadays, digital technologies are transforming buildings into smart socio-technical systems in which Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures continuously generate large volumes of data, enabling innovative approaches such as Digital Twins, Virtual and Extended Reality, Process Mining, and Artificial Intelligence to support facility management, energy optimization, safety, and strategic decision-making.

From a business informatics perspective, smart buildings raise critical research questions related to enterprise modeling, semantic interoperability, process management, and decision support. Detailed data generated by IoT devices requires abstraction mechanisms in order to be transformed into actionable knowledge. Semantic and data-driven approaches can convert heterogeneous event data into interpretable behavioral models, enabling behavioral analysis, performance assessment, and optimization.

The DTSSB workshop aims to foster a community of researchers and practitioners, stimulating discussion on methods, approaches, and digital technologies that facilitate the design, integration, operation, and governance of innovative smart buildings. Conceptual, technical, application-oriented, and case-study contributions are all within the scope of the workshop.

Topics

The main topics include, but are not limited to:

Digital Twins in Business Information Systems for Smart Buildings
Enterprise modeling for Smart Buildings
Information systems architectures for Smart Buildings
Interoperability between BIM, IoT, Digital Twins, and facility management systems
Semantic data models and ontologies for Smart Buildings
Knowledge Graphs for integrated building information management
Data governance, privacy, and security in Smart Building platforms
Process mining for operational and behavioral analysis in smart environments
Event log abstraction from IoT data for process intelligence
Business process optimization in Smart Building management
Hybrid AI approaches for Smart Buildings
Explainable AI for Smart Buildings
AI-driven predictive maintenance and energy optimization
Data analytics and business intelligence for Smart Building ecosystems
Virtual and Extended Reality and immersive analytics
Human-centric and socio-technical perspectives in Smart Buildings
Organizational and business models for Digital Twin adoption
Sustainability and energy efficiency analytics in Smart Buildings
Building operation optimization
Assessment of building energy, occupancy, and indoor comfort
Case studies and industrial applications

Submission

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. They should be written in English and formatted according to the guidelines provided below. The workshop welcome the submission of regular papers and short papers.

Regular papers should be 11-15 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.
Short papers should be 6-10 pages long, including figures, tables, appendices and references.

Submissions to the workshop are done via EasyChair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2026, choose the option "2nd International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings".

All accepted workshop papers will be published in CEUR proceedings. Authors must use the one-column CEUR-ART style for the papers. The CEUR-ART styles can be found at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html, section "CEURART style files for papers".

note that the use of Generative AI in the development of the paper must comply with the CEUR-WS GenAI policy and must be explicitly declared at the end of the paper, as instructed at: https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html

A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended papers for an issue of the Journal on Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ).

Program Committee

Program Committee Chairs

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

Program Committee (tbc)

Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
Marco Franceschetti, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Francesco Tiezzi, Università di Firenze, Italy
Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Alex J.A. Donkers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Nicola Moretti, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fulvio Re Cecconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Piermichele Rosati, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Diego Reforgiato Recupero, University of Cagliari, Italy
Rubén Alonso, R2M Solution Srl, Italy

Organizers

Massimo Callisto De Donato

University of Camerino, Italy

massimo.callisto@unicam.it

Emanuele Laurenzi

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

emanuele.laurenzi@fhnw.ch

Sebastiano Maltese

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland

sebastiano.maltese@supsi.ch

Lorenzo Rossi

University of Camerino, Italy

lorenzo.rossi@unicam.it

Workshop History

A preliminary version of this initiative was organized as a thematic session at the SOCIETY 5.0 Conference 2025, held in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, from 25 to 27 June 2025. The session focused on Digital Twin Smart Buildings and their implications for sustainability and safety in the Society 5.0 era. Building on that positive experience, the current proposal introduces a more structured scientific workshop format based on peer-reviewed papers and a clearly defined scope aligned with the BIR conference themes.

Second International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings