Second International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Smart and Sustainable Buildings

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

The UPRAISE network

DTSSB 2026 is promoted within the network of the UPRAISE project. UPRAISE addresses the development of advanced digital skills for Virtual Worlds and emerging technologies, including Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, IoT, and sustainability-oriented digital innovation.

The workshop contributes to the UPRAISE activities by fostering scientific discussion on smart and sustainable environments and related emerging digital technologies as key enablers of innovative education and training programmes that equip current and future professionals with advanced technological expertise.