Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2026 Workshops: Braga, Portugal, June 30 - July 3, 2026, Proceedings, Part III(16760 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This nine-volume set LNCS 16758-16766 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSA 2026, held in Braga, Portugal, during June 30 - July 3, 2026.

The 328 full papers, 23 short papers and 3 PhD showcase papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 1184 submissions.

The conference consisted of 57 workshops, focusing on topical issues of utmost importance to science, technology and society: from new computational approaches for earth science, to mathematical methods for image processing, new statistical and optimisation methods, several Artificial Intelligence approaches, sustainability issues, smart cities and related technologies.

.- Computational Methods, Statistics and Industrial Mathematics (CMSIM 2026).

.- Determinants of Bachelor's Degree Completion: The Role of Pre-University Background and Academic Progress.

.- Dual-Branch Hidden Markov Model for Rolling Bearing Degradation Analysis.

.- Research on the Gimballed Inertial Navigation System based on Mathematical Description of Platform Motion.

.- Adaptive Sampling Design for Bayesian Spatial Risk Mapping of Maritime Surveillance in Central Portugal.

.- Investigating of the operation of a railgun system with laboratory proportion.

.- Determinants of Housing Prices in Portugal: A Municipal-Level Analysis.

.- Modeling Risk in HIV Care: A Data-Driven Approach to Patient Pro ling.

.- The In uence of Fatigue on Decision-Making in Military Context.

.- A framework for the Statistical Analysis of xed e ects models using R, illustrated with an example in Biometry.

.- Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2026).

.- Entropy based estimation of risk neutral density dynamics.

.- Predicting Consumer Acceptance of Gami cation Strategies: A Machine Learning Approach.

.- Multi-objective Optimization of Distributed Job Shop Scheduling Problems with Customer Time Requirements.

.- Optimizing Directional Change Trading Strategies with Adaptive Thresholds for the Brazilian Stock Market.

.- Optimization and Technical-economic Evaluation of DC Microgrids with Integrated Renewable Energy Sources.

.- (In)approximability of the Maximum 2-Clique Problem for Chordal Graphs.

.- Evaluating AI-Generated Surrogate Optimization Algorithms for Expensive Black-Box Optimization.

.- Heuristic Approaches for Personnel Scheduling in a Call Center with Social Fairness Considerations.

.- Distributionally robust optimisation for prepositioning wild re ghting resources.

.- A convergence analysis of a 1-norm neighborhood Mehrotra-type algorithm.

.- Mixed-Integer Linear Programming for Production Scheduling with Robot Allocation in a Textile Company.

.- On the Use of Range Volatility Estimators for Rough Fractional Stochastic Volatility Model.

.- A Reinforcement Learning Guided General Variable Neighborhood Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem.

.- Computational Methods in Advanced Networking Technologies (CoMANT 2026).

.- When Heterogeneous Modalities Synchronize: Mitigating Desynchronization Attacks in Multimodal Online Federated Learning.

.- A Fractional Epidemic Model for Multi-Malware Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks.

.- Sensitivity Analysis of the Multi Malware Attacks Model in Wireless Sensor Networks.

.- Computational Astrochemistry 2026 (CompAstro 2026).

.- From N(2D) back to N2: a theoretical investigation of the N(2D) + CH2NH  N2 + CH3 reaction and implications for the atmospheric chemistry of Titan.

.- Production and characterization of cyanoacetylene dications by synchrotron radiation.

.- Reactions of N(2D) with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a computationalapproach.

.- Can OSiS be formed in the interstellar medium? A computational investigation of the OH + SiS reaction with a kinetic analysis.

.- Workshop on Computational Science and HPC (CSHPC 2026).

.- Numerical Evaluation of 3-Loop Baseball and Running Shirt Feynman Diagrams using GPU-Accelerated QMC Integration and Extrapolation, based on Sector Decomposition.

.- Development and validation of the computational code GEM for simulating quantum few-body systems through optimization on the supercomputer Fugaku.

.- Acceleration of multi-component multiple-precision arithmetic with branch-free algorithms and SIMD vectorization.

.- Advection of Smooth and Non-smooth Tracers Using Spectral Bicubic Interpolation.

.- Matrix Functions Computation in Hardware Accelerators.

.- Cities, Technologies and Planning (CTP 2026).

.- Data (Re)conciliation: Audit and Harmonization Pipelines for Municipal Geospatial Data.

.- Integrating Renewable Energy Communities into Historic Urban Landscapes: A Framework for Sustainable Conservation.

.- How do local and regional strategies address blue-green infrastructure? The case of Slovakia.

.- The challenges of urban regeneration between conservation and transformation in coastal areas. The case study of La Caletta, Sardinia, Italy.

.- Machine Learning Methods for Fire Risk Assessment in Wildland Urban Interfaces - Case Study Attica Region, Greece.

.- SmartParcel System: A Geospatial Platform for Enhancing Cross-Fertilisation between Spatial Planning and Territorial Cohesion Policies in Serbia.