Key dates and submission

EG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering 2026 – Call for papers

Would you like to join an intensive workshop, where you can engage with an international community of experts to explore the application of innovative and intelligent computing to engineering challenges?

Then you should definitely consider submitting an extended abstract or a paper and present at the annual EG-ICE workshop which will take place in Padova, Italy from 1st - 3rd of July 2026

The workshop particularly welcomes PhD students and early career researchers, offering a platform for discussion and networking. Participation in the EG-ICE 2026 workshop is open not only to engineers but also to computer scientists, architects, psychologists, and other interested professionals.

Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to

Life-Cycle Support
   • Computer-enhanced engineering design
   • Building/City performance analysis
   • Geometric and parametric modelling
   • Visualization and simulations
   • Design and decision support systems

Automation and robotics
   • Human-robot collaboration
   • Advanced construction methods
   • Proactive runtime safety, health, and well-being
   • Breakthrough technologies

Monitoring and control algorithms in engineering
   • Sensor data interpretation
   • Progress monitoring and management
   • Building control systems
   • Active structures

Engineering optimization and search
   • Design space exploration
   • Stochastic search
   • Generative design

Computer-supported construction management
   • Collaboration informatics
   • Scheduling
   • Discrete-event simulations
   • Process modelling
Advanced computing in engineering
   • Strategic aspects – opportunities and risks
   • Computational design
   • Data-driven design and engineering
   • AI/Machine learning
   • Computer vision
   • Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality
   • Quantum computing
   • Robust optimization

BIM and engineering ontologies
   • Building/Civil/City information modelling
   • Semantic modelling in AECO industry
   • Ontology modelling and reasoning
   • Spatial reasoning
   • Graph algorithms
   • Code compliance checking

Enhancing sustainability and resilience
   • High performance and smart building/city simulation and analysis
   • Sustainable building/civil Infrastructure/city
   • Life cycle assessment and cost
   • Intelligent building/civil infrastructure/city systems
   • Information and communication technologies in facilities management
   • Infrastructure life-cycle management


Key dates:

    • Abstract submission: Dec 15, 2025
    • Abstract acceptance: Jan 15, 2026
    • Full Paper submission: Apr 1, 2026
    • Paper acceptance: May 1, 2026
    • Final paper submission: May 15, 2026

Information for authors
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts and final papers in PDF format through the easychair online submission system. Please choose the correct track according to your submission type: « Extended abstract » or « Final paper ». 

Submitting an extended abstract of two pages is not mandatory but highly recommended.

Please make sure you use the author template (*.docx).

Download Author Template 


Special issue of Advanced Engineering Informatics

A selection of the best conference papers will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a special issue of the journal Advanced Engineering Informatics.
For more information, please visit the conference webpage