Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2026 Workshops: Braga, Portugal, June 30 - July 3, 2026, Proceedings, Part VII(16764 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.

.- Socio-Economic and Environmental Models for Land Use Management (SEMLUM 2026).

.- Mispricing Energy E ciency? Discrete Labels, Continuous Performance, and Policy Gaps in Urban Housing Markets.

.- Composite Indices for Urban Blight Assessment: A Decision Support Approach for Urban Regeneration.

.- Managing Tourism Pressure: Impacts on Urban Real Estate in Italy.

.- An optimization method to ensure reliability in the assessment of special properties.

.- From Literature Evidence to Method Selection: A Two-Layer MCDA Framework for Project Alternative Evaluation in Public Procurement.

.- A Territorial Adaptive Composite Index for Urban Energy Poverty: Local Vulnerability Drivers.

.- Holistic sustainability evaluation: preliminary phases for a methodology application in Docks Dora, Turin (Italy).

.- Balancing Sustainability and Performance: A Multi-Criteria Comparison of Recycled, Bio-Based and Low-Carb on Materials Using the Analytic Hierarchy Pro cess (AHP).

.- An Integrated Framework for ESG Assessment and Action Planning in Eco-Industrial Parks.

.- A Methodological Framework for Identifying Compromise Solutions in Complex Urban Squatting Conditions.

.- Rent and Buy Market interactions: a focus on energy performance and building technological systems.

.- The Impact of Di erent Polluting Site Typologies on Residential Real Estate Values: A Systematic Literature Review.

.- A Methodological Approach to Assessing the Territorial Impacts of Industrial Decarbonisation on Real Estate Values.

.- Sustainability Performance Assessment: Models, Approaches, and Applications Toward Interdisciplinary and Integrated Solutions. (SPA 2026).

.- The Corporate Social Responsibility in Agrifood System: An Integrated methodological approach to assessing corporate integration and communication.

.- Tourism as a Spatially Structured Territorial System: A STESY-Based Interpretation of the Bay of Cádiz Tourism Ecosystem.

.- From Metropolitan Shadow to Territorial Autonomy: A Spatial and Strategic Assessment of the Tourism Ecosystem in North-Holland.

.- The integration of Strategic Environmental Assessment into urban planning in the Emilia-Romagna Region.

.- Integrating Wine Specialization into a Territorial Tourism Dimension: A STESY-Based Interpretation of La Rioja.

.- Rebalancing Tourism Flows in Kotor, Montenegro: Application of STESY Framework for Transitioning from Cruise-Based Pressure to Extended Stay.

.- From Linear Accessibility to Distributed Territorial Activation: A STESY-Based Approach for the Lofoten Islands.

.- Symbiotic Territories: Application of the STESY Framework for Rebalancing Tourism Flows Between Granada and Sierra Nevada.

.- Comparing user preference for AI-assisted search bar, AI+VR search-interaction, gami ed quiz-driven product bundling: Towards cross-disciplinary intelligence and sustainability.

.- Specifics of smart cities development in Europe (SPEED 2026).

.- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises as Providers of Regional Environmental Open Data: Connecting LCA Indicators with ESG Reporting and Sustainable Regional Development.

.- Smart Governance and Data-Driven Employment Policies in Less Developed Regions: A Regional Governance Model from the Banská Bystrica Case.

.- Integrating Behavioral Economics and IoT for Energy E ciency in Smart Cities: A Multi-Case Study Approach.

.- Smart Innovations in Biosphere Reserves.

.- Development Agency as Source of Social Innovation in Catching-up Region: Evidence from Slovakia.

.- Assess Flooding Impacts in Urban Environment: Integrating Fluid-Dynamic Simulations in Smart City Digital Twin.

.- Understanding Short-Term Rental Monitoring for Sustainable Data-Driven Destination Management.

.- Smart, Safe, and Health Cities (SSHC 2026).

.- Integrating Computational Design and Space Syntax in Urban Planning and Design Education: A Data-Driven Pedagogical Model.

.- Associations and public facilities as infrastructures of slowness. Proximity and sociality at neighbourhood level.

.- Urban data-driven energy planning: insights and challenges from Italy and Portugal.

.- Con gurational Accessibility and Mobility Patterns in a Port-City Interface: A Space Syntax Analysis of Central Catania.

.- A Digital-Twin-Oriented Monitoring Framework for Tra c-Related Environmental Hotspots and Future Nature-Based Solutions in Catania.

.- Remote Work and Residential Attractiveness across the Centre Periphery Gradient.

.- A data-driven framework for cycle path quality: Integrating user perception and sensing.

.- Transport Infrastructures for Smart Cities (TISC 2026).

.- Operationalizing National Road Design Guidelines: A Python Tool for Geometric Design Consistency Assessment.

.- Circular management of tunnel excavation materials in transport infrastructures: an LCA approach.

.- Reclaiming the Sea: Cagliari's Waterfront Renaissance.