ACM | BALANCES

Welcome to ACM BALANCES 2025

The proliferation of urban sensing, IoT, and big data in buildings, cities, and urban areas provides unprecedented opportunities to better understand and optimize transportation, energy and water networks, and how human behavior affects them (and is, in turn, affected by them). However, historically due to poor-quality data, limitations in algorithms, and computational bottlenecks, modeling urban-scale occupant behavior and its interactions with energy and transportation demand has proven to be quite challenging. Therefore, progress in developing data-driven techniques, which can work with enormous amounts of data that is increasingly available today, is needed to unlock its full potential.

To realize this potential, BALANCES focuses on innovative data-driven methodologies for modeling and optimizing buildings and cities. It also highlights IEA EBC Annex 82 Subtask A2.3, which deals with data-driven modeling of energy flexibility on building- and urban-scales.

The workshop aims to foster discussions on:
1. Big data modeling paradigms that could be applicable in building and urban science,
2. Data collection infrastructure requirements for these modeling paradigms,
3. Challenges faced by current modeling approaches, and
4. Future research directions to fully utilize building and urban big data.

BALANCES'25 will be held in conjunction with ACM BuildSys 2025.

Submission Guidelines

The workshop will accept the submissions of original work or work in progress. Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. Submissions must be full papers, at most 4 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including figures, tables, references and appendices. Submissions for All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found here. All submissions must be submitted using the submission website. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions by: (1) using the "anonymous" option for the class and (2) using "anonsuppress" section where appropriate. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. Please note that ACM uses 9-pt fonts in all conference proceedings, and the style (both LaTeX and Word) implicitly define the font size to be 9-pt.

The tentative presentation formats are regular oral presentation (15 minutes) and a spotlight presentation (2 minutes).

Register through ACM BuildSys 2025

Please submit through https://buildsys25balances.hotcrp.com/.
And register through https://buildsys.acm.org/2025/.