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.
Table of Contents:
.- Smart and Sustainable Island Communities (SSIC 2026).
.- Identifying Insular Tourism Hotspots at Fire and/or Flood Risk Case Study Rhodes Island, Greece.
.- Towards Smart and Sustainable Management of Construction & Demolition Waste in Island Communities.
.- Islands of Meaning: Reconceptualising Coastal Wellbeing through Identity and Tourism Dynamics in Mediterranean and Southeast Asian Contexts.
.- Sustainable Energy Planning in the Cyclades Islands, Greece: Problems and Perspectives in an Era of Climate Crisis.
.- Beyond the Station: Multimodal Interchange Hubs in Coastal Cities for Urban Integration.
.- Strategic Planning of Integrated Public Transport and Demand-Responsive Transport Systems through PESTEL, SWOT, TOWS Analyses: The Case Study of Enna.
.- Exploring MaaS DRT Integration Through a Systematic Literature Review: Methodological Insights for Rural Mobility Planning.
.- Ports and logistics of the future - Smartness and Sustainability (SmartPorts 2026).
.- Economic Impact of Digital Payments on SMEs in Emerging Markets: A Bibliometric Systematic Literature Review (2016-2025).
.- Process-Oriented Digitalization in Port Systems: Evidence from the Port of Trieste.
.- Cities and Sport. Proximity Planning Among Green Networks and Commons.
.- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCM 2026).
.- Predictive Modeling of the Activation Energy of Petroleum Sludge Pyrolysis Using Arti cial Intelligence Approaches.
.- Theoretical Investigations of CO2 - N2 Separation on Y-graphyne Membranes: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Study.
.- From BioEmu Monomer Ensembles to AMBER-Ready Holo Models:Subunit-Aware Quality Control of a Cofactor-Rich Aldehyde Oxidoreductase.
.- Multiscale Computational Study of Perovskite Materials Using Classical Molecular Dynamics and Ab Initio Approaches.
.- Symmetry and Deformations in Shape Space: An Invariant Coordinate Description of Clusters and Biomolecules.
.- From structural to TRAnsformative-change of City Environment: challenges & solutions & perspectives (TRACE 2026).
.- Decision support for urban regeneration through a territorial criticality index.
.- Context-based indicators and data-driven multi-level assessments for SDG-oriented urban regeneration.
.- From Text to Economic Exposure: Measuring Intrinsic Risk in Urban Real Estate.
.- Regulatory Divergence and Operational Market Structure in Short-Term Rentals: A Comparative Analysis of Rome and Vienna.
.- A checklist-based framework for assessing the functional conversion potential of existing buildings for healthcare uses.
.- Assessing the Existence Value of Cultural Heritage. The Economic Evaluation of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice.
.- Urban Regeneration and Real Estate Transformation: A Case Study of Parque Fundidora in Monterrey.
.- Evaluating the Multi-Dimensional Impacts of the 10% Biodiversity Net Gain Requirement: A Methodological Proposal for Public Administrations.
.- Transforming Urban Analytics: The Impact of Crowdsourced Mapping and Advanced AI Techniques on Future Cities (Tr-UrbAna 2026).
.- Crowdsourced Data for Urban Planning: Evaluating OpenStreetMap Categorization Reliability in Historical Urban Centres.
.- Assessing the Availability of Crowdsourced Street-Level Imagery for Urban Perception Mapping.
.- Urban Space Accessibility and Mobilities (USAM 2026).
.- Improving communication procedures to foster rail cross-border accessibility: A survey on connections between Italy and Slovenia.
.- From Ephemeral to Permanent: Street Experiments and the Evolution of Historical Urban Landscapes.
.- User-Centric Routing Based on Residents' Needs and Preferences.
.- Vehicular Speed Pro les on Raised Pedestrian Crossing to inform 30km/h Zone Implementation.
.- Gender Differences in Injury Severity in Pedestrian Escooter Collisions: A Simulation Study Using Multi-body tools.
.- Determinants of Micromobility Adoption in University Campuses: preliminary fndings from a Small-Scale city in Italy.
.- Addressing Mobility-as-a-Service inclusive design through the engagement of vulnerable users: future perspectives for Italian MaaS.
.- Assessing Accessibility to Primary Education and Healthcare Services: a Comparison of EU Datasets and Network-based analysis.
.- Towards a Multidimensional Assessment of Urban Bikeability: Integrating GIS and User Perception.
.- Urban Artificial Intelligence for Modelling, Analysis & Planning (Urban plAnnIng 2026).
.- Artificial Intelligence and new urban planning: interpretative paradigms and impacts on urban and territorial systems.
.- Rethinking Inner Areas through AI: Hybrid Approaches for Inclusive Planning.
.- Urban Artificial Intelligence as a Meta-Modelling Framework: Repositioning AI in Urban Analysis and Planning.
.- Snap4City SUMI Manager: A Digital Twin-Integrated Framework for Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicator Processing and Visualization.
.- AI-Enabled Video Analytics for Urban Mobility Digital Twins: A Microsimulation Study of the Via Caronda Corridor in Catania.
.- From point events to continuous surfaces: a framework for multi-scale spatial analysis.
