2nd IEEE Workshop on Protecting the Future of Cultural Heritage: Risk-Aware and Sustainable Approaches for Preservation (ARGUS)
Venice, Italy (hybrid event) • September 7–9, 2026
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Cultural heritage is increasingly exposed to a wide range of risks, including environmental and climatic hazards, anthropogenic pressures, socio-economic transformations, and digital threats. Addressing these challenges requires integrated, sustainable, and inclusive preservation strategies, combining technological innovation with local knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration, and stakeholder participation.
The ARGUS project aims to develop a sustainable and dynamic decision support system (DSS) that integrates multi-scale and multi-source data – such as GIS, remote sensing, in situ monitoring – to support adaptive and risk-aware heritage management. Within this framework, digital tools and data-driven approaches play a crucial role not only in monitoring and risk assessment, but also in documentation, long-term safeguarding, and informed decision-making.
The workshop aims to promote interdisciplinary research, bringing together expertise from fields such as archaeology, geology, engineering, architecture, computer science, environmental sciences, social sciences, and heritage studies.
Beyond purely technological solutions, this workshop explicitly encourages contributions that explore sustainable preservation practices, including community-based monitoring, and multi-level collaboration between local communities, heritage professionals, researchers, and institutions. Early-career researchers and interdisciplinary perspectives are particularly welcome.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:
› Risk assessment and management for cultural heritage
› Sustainable and resilient preservation strategies
› Integrated monitoring systems for heritage protection
› Participatory and community-based approaches to heritage monitoring
› AI, data analytics, and decision support systems for heritage protection
› Conservation practices and applied case studies
› Heritage preservation in the context of climate change and environmental hazards
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: April 12, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 2, 2026
Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2026
Early registration deadline: May 20, 2026
Conference dates: Sept 7–9, 2026
Submission Guidelines
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CH conference are applicable to ARGUS workshop. Please visit the instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via Easychair, please make sure that the workshop’s track WS-ARGUS is selected.
Workshop Committees
Program Chiars
Margherita Bottoni University of Roma Tre (IT)
Matteo Rossi University of Tor Vergata (IT)
Giordano De Coste University of Roma Tre (IT)
Technical Program Committee
Emeri Farinetti, University of Roma Tre (IT)
George Pavlidis, Athena Research Center (GR)
Apostolos Sarris, University of Cyprus (CY)
Antonio Minervino Amodio, CNR (IT)
Argyro C. Argyrou, CUT (CY)
Franco Niccolucci, Vast Lab (IT)
Sara Fiorentino, University of Bologna (IT)
Giacomo Mancuso, CNR (IT)
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