SusTAIN 2026 Aligned with Vision 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Madinah · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia October 6, 2026 – October 8, 2026 University of Prince Mugrin The 1st International Conference on Technology and Engineering Innovation for Sustainability SusTAIN 2026 Aligned with Vision 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Madinah · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia October 6, 2026 – October 8, 2026 University of Prince Mugrin The 1st International Conference on Technology and Engineering Innovation for Sustainability
University of Prince Mugrin (UPM) SusTAIN 2026

Conference / Program

Program

October 6, 2026

Pre-Conference Workshops and Innovation Day

October 7, 2026

Conference Day One

October 7, 2026

Conference Opening Ceremony (By Invitation Only)

October 8, 2026

Conference Day Two

// Accepted papers

Paper sessions.

Parallel sessions run simultaneously for oral presentations in the Ibrahim Jelidan Hall and the Al-Shaer Hall.

Parallel Sessions 1

October 7, 2026 · 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

Session 1.1 6 papers

Track 1 — Emerging Technologies and Smart Cities for Sustainable Infrastructure

Hall:
Ibrahim Jelidan Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Omar Al-Dakhil
  1. #33

    A Proposed Framework for Innovation Governance of Digital Infrastructure to Support Smart and Sustainable Cities

    Mansour AL Lehabi

  2. #45

    Embedded Vibration-Based Monitoring of Motor–Pump Units for Sustainable Water Infrastructure Reliability

    BENAISSA Mohamed, Sidi Mohammed Chorfi, Foued Derraz, Ahmed Benghomari, Sid Ahmed Ailas

  3. #47

    Comparative Structure–Property Relationships of TMOS-Modified PVDF and PVDF-HFP Membranes for Membrane Distillation Applications

    Monis Bin Abid

  4. #53

    Valorization of Palm Waste in Cementitious Concrete-Block Envelopes for Sustainable Thermal Insulation in Hot-Arid Buildings

    Mohamed Laissy, Linda AlAhhamdi, Lamar Alhazmi, Hussain Alsadiq

  5. #54

    Automated Package Design System: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Custom Carton Manufacturing

    Hassan Almorohen, Khalid Humouda, Hussain Alhubail, Nawaf Alhajjaj, Abdulrahman Aljiban, Sadiq Alhuwaidi

  6. #70

    Improving the Biodegradability of LDPE Films Using Black Soldier Fly Exuviae and Glycerol: A Step Towards Sustainable Plastic

    Gul-E Nayyaba, Monis Bin Abid, Faridah Bt Kormin, Aisha Shamim, Iqbal Ahmed

Session 1.2 6 papers

Track 1 — Emerging Technologies and Smart Cities for Sustainable Infrastructure

Hall:
Al-Shaer Hall
Session Chair:
Prof. Muna Khushaim
  1. #74

    Climate-Adaptive Façades for Smart Housing: A Comparative Evaluation of Thermochromic Coatings and Living Walls

    Muhammad Huzaifa Zahid, Mansour Alhazmi, Muhammad Asif

  2. #85

    Sustainable Hardware Trust for IoT: A Low-Cost SRAM-PUF Remote Attestation System with a BCH Fuzzy Extractor on Commodity Microcontrollers

    Syed Sadiqur Rahman, Abdulaziz Ahmed Hajjar, Suliman Khaled Faraj, Khalid Mohamed Aljohani, Kainat Malik

  3. #95

    A Dynamic Theory of Governance Debt for the Sustainable Agentic Enterprise

    Yazeed Alsughayyir, Naila Marir, Miltiadis D. Lytras

  4. #108

    Thermophysical and Ultrasonic Characterisation of Dense Madinah Basalt for Façade and Public-Realm Applications

    Ahmed Bin Taleb, Hussain Alsadiq, Hassan Abas

  5. #116

    Valorizing Date-Pit Agricultural Waste into an Electro-Assisted Activated-Carbon Column for Selective Divalent-Ion Removal from Desalination Brine: A Circular-Economy Framework and Computational Feasibility Study

    Mohammad Al-Dahar, AbdulKarim Alnajjar, Adnan Abi Sen, Adel Ben Mnaouer, Omar Tayan

  6. #156

    Artificial Intelligence and IoT for Sustainable Smart City Infrastructure: Opportunities and Challenges

    Ali Hassan, Sarfaraz Rabbani

Parallel Sessions 2

October 7, 2026 · 2:30 – 4:15 PM

Session 2.1 7 papers

Track 2 — AI, Arabic Language Processing, and LLM Applications to Sustainability

Hall:
Ibrahim Jelidan Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Mohammed Temraz
  1. #56

    FORSA: A Bilingual Multi-Agent Recruitment Platform for Sustainable Workforce Readiness

    Reem Aljuwayd, Lama Alawfi, Rimas Alhazmi, Maram Alhattami, Afnan Sahal, Soumaya Chaffar

  2. #82

    Evaluating Basic and Agentic RAG for Arabic Government Question Answering: A Case Study Using Saudi Ministry of Commerce FAQs

    Omar Aisawi, Hind Althabi, Soumaya Chaffar

  3. #90

    SADU: Deep Transfer Learning for Smart Textile Classification

    Qutuf Alsuhume, Norah Alraddadi, Norah Almohammadi, Sarah Alahmadi, Mariyyah Alharbi, Alaa Mohammed, Enas Alrehaili

  4. #94

    ArTrOCR: Fine-Tuning TrOCR for Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition, A Gradual Complexity Approach

    Bushra Almodifer, Jumana Hussain, Modhi AlSobeihy

  5. #96

    Natural Language Processing in the Era of Large Language Models: Where do we go next?

    Abdurazzag Almiladi

  6. #115

    Governed Knowledge Updates for Isolated AI Deployments: A One-Way Ingestion Architecture

    Hammad Anjum Zubairi

  7. #157

    Discrete Polar-Fox Optimization: Algorithm Design and Representation for the Traveling Salesman Problem

    Abdelaziz Hammouri

Session 2.2 6 papers

Track 3 — Cybersecurity and Blockchain for Securing Sustainable Developments

Hall:
Al-Shaer Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Syed Sadiq Rahman
  1. #52

    A Blockchain-Based Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Renewable Energy Smart Grids: Alignment with Saudi Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals

    Fadi Fataftah

  2. #62

    Nubl: A Community-Centered Digital Aid and Food Support Ecosystem Platform with Privacy-by-Design and Tamper-Evident Audit Logging

    Bashar Moustafe Nayal, Salem Hussameldeen Shurrab, Fisal Nabil Eljaroshah, Abdurazzag Almiladi, Adnan Abi Sen

  3. #63

    SwarmDeceive: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent LLM Honeypot Swarm for Adaptive IT/OT Cyber Deception

    Muhammad Abdur Rahman, M. Minhaz Rahman, Tiaba Alam, Syed Usman Jamil, Selwa Al-Hazzaa

  4. #75

    SCAN: A Layered Pipeline Combining Code Property Graphs, Large Language Models, and Fine-Tuned Transformers for Sustainable Source Code Vulnerability Detection

    Syed Kamran Ahmed, Sawsan Zahed, Lujain Khaled, Dhuha Albalawi, Elan Abbas, Fay Ahmed

  5. #101

    A Triple Bottom Line Operational Data Governance Framework from Compliance to Sustainability

    Mashael Alzahrani, Naila Marir, Miltiadis D. Lytras

  6. #164

    A Comparative Evaluation of Cloud-Based Defense Mechanisms Against Ransomware Attacks: Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Digital Developments

    Jamal Mohammed, Ahmed Taha, Ali Hassan, Yahya Abdallah

Parallel Sessions 3

October 8, 2026 · 9:45 – 11:00 AM

Session 3.1 5 papers

Track 4 — Sustainability in Digital Education and Society

Hall:
Ibrahim Jelidan Hall
Session Chair:
Prof. Muna Khushaim
  1. #28

    Detecting Phygital Ghosting: Multi-View Deep Learning for Student Retention in a Globalized Digital Ecosystem

    Dareen Abdulmohsen, Nadia Yusuf, Meshael Batarfi, Kholoud Bajunaied

  2. #60

    UniMate: A Bilingual Hybrid AI System for Academic Advising and Transcript Analysis

    Danah Alsahli, Ghaidaa Osailan, Sana Mouazen, Soumaya Chaffar

  3. #132

    Building Trust in Digital Learning: SDAIA’s Contribution to Data Privacy in Education

    Ali Hassan, Mohammed Ali Aziz, Anis Awale

  4. #141

    An Integrated AI-Enabled Project-Based Learning Framework for Sustainability Education in Construction

    Haya Almutairi

  5. #159

    Protecting Student Data in Saudi Arabia: An SDAIA-Aligned Privacy Governance Framework for Sustainable Digital Education

    Mohammed Ali Aziz, Ali Hassan, Anis Awale

Session 3.2 5 papers

Track 1 — Emerging Technologies and Smart Cities for Sustainable Infrastructure + Track 5 — Networking and Industry 5.0 for Sustainable Development

Hall:
Al-Shaer Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Mohammed Zayed
  1. #58

    A Mechanical Analogy-Based Dynamic Modeling and PID Control Framework for Piezoelectric Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printing for Sustainable Digital Manufacturing

    Ahsan Rahman, Saleh Edhah, Muath Alsharif

  2. #99

    Screening Saudi Ports for OWC Wave Energy Integration

    Yusuf R. Almalki

  3. #129

    SusNet-5.0: A Human-Centric Industry 5.0 Reference Architecture for Sustainable Manufacturing Value Chains, Enabled by Next-Generation Networks and Edge Intelligence

    Ahmed Alghamdi

  4. #137

    Human-Centered Neighborhood Transformation in Madinah’s Hot-Arid Urban Context

    Maha Moddather Hassan, Hossam Qadri, Alejandro Carlos Echeverri

  5. #166

    SOAI: A Sustainability-Oriented Architecture and Sustainability Scoring Framework for AI-Enabled IoT Environmental Monitoring

    Badia Bouhdid, Adel Ben Mnaouer

Parallel Sessions 4

October 8, 2026 · 1:30 – 2:45 PM

Session 4.1 6 papers

Track 1 — Emerging Technologies and Smart Cities for Sustainable Infrastructure

Hall:
Ibrahim Jelidan Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Soumaya Chaffar
  1. #80

    Temperature-Dependent Comparative Evaluation of Soybean and Sunflower Oil Rejuvenators in 40% Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Binders and Mixtures: A Statistical Approach

    Amin Hamdi

  2. #128

    Towards a Circular Economy: Green Recycling Technologies for Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles

    Mohd Muzamir Bin Mahat

  3. #131

    Carbon-Reduction Potential of Natural Stone Façade Systems Compared with Aluminium Composite Panel Façades in Madinah

    Hassan Abas, Hussain Alsadiq

  4. #143

    Target-Level Assessment of Direct and Enabling SDG Contribution Pathways in the Integrated Linear System of The Line City, Saudi Arabia

    Hassan Abas

  5. #145

    Mitigation of Photovoltaic Panels Soiling with Ionic Wind Through Solid-State Corona Discharge

    Abdelrahman Elawady, Ibrahim Albarbari, Adnan Abi Sen, Omar Tayan, Adel Ben Mnaouer

  6. #153

    An Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Support Tool for Flash Flood Resilience in Smart Cities

    Abdulwaheed Tella, Izni Zahidi, Chow Ming Fai

Session 4.2 6 papers

Track 1 — Emerging Technologies and Smart Cities for Sustainable Infrastructure + Track 8 — Digital Technologies for Sustainable Hajj and Umrah Solutions

Hall:
Al-Shaer Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Maha Moddather
  1. #17

    Development of a Simplified Numerical Model for Predicting the Seismic Response of Rocking Podium Structures

    Maha Moddather Hassan, Turki Alalawi, Abduaziz S. Al-Hazmi, Majd R. Zain, Jahad I. Al-harbi

  2. #89

    Public Perception of a Proposed Tourist Observation Tower in Madinah Al Munawara: Implications for Visitor Experience, Economic Opportunities, and Cultural Compatibility

    Yaman Charam, Hassan Abas, Youssef Gaoudat, Akram Kehail, Ibrahim Aljamil, Turki Fawzan, Ahmed Alanazi

  3. #112

    An AI-Driven Digital Twin Framework for Sustainable Hajj: Predictive Resource Forecasting and Per-Pilgrim Carbon Analytics for Sustainable Cities, Responsible Consumption, and Climate Action (SDGs 11–13) under Saudi Vision 2030

    Umara Noor, Bayan Alamri, Abdulhakim Sabur, Renad Alsuhaymi, Ashief Ahmed, Muhammad Abdur Rahman

  4. #161

    Visual Semantic Caching for AI Cost Reduction in E-Commerce Using Metric Learning and Background Removal

    Ismail Orabi

  5. #165

    SbD-SDLC: A Sustainability-by-Design Framework for Software Development Life Cycle

    Adnan Abi Sen

  6. #163

    A Digital Twin and Edge-AI Framework for Heat Aware Sustainable Crowd Mobility During Hajj

    Jamal Mohammed, Ahmed Taha, Ali Hassan, Babiker Al

Parallel Sessions 5

October 8, 2026 · 2:45 – 4:15 PM

Session 5.1 5 papers

Track 6 — Sustainable Health Informatics and Telemedicine + Track 7 — Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Metaverse for Sustainable Applications

Hall:
Ibrahim Jelidan Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Bayan Alamri
  1. #72

    Beyond Technology Acceptance: A Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Sustainable AI-Enabled Wearable Adoption and Health Equity in Southeast Asian Healthcare

    Syeda Hafsa Rizwan, Anusuyah Subbarao, Shereen Khan

  2. #73

    Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Primary Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Service Delivery Improvement and Resource Allocation Optimisation

    Batool Aljasim, Nebil Achour, Naim Abdulmohdi, Abbas Almutair

  3. #78

    Virtual Reality for Sustainable Vocational Training: A Case Study in Hairdressing

    Ikram Asghar, Rahmat Ullah, Daniel Powell

  4. #147

    A Trustworthy User-Centric Machine Learning Framework for Clinical Decision Support Systems (TUML-CDSS): Design-Science Development and Synthetic Validation

    Ali Hassan

  5. #158

    Digital Twins and Smart City Governance: Enabling Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

    Ali Hassan, Sarfaraz Rabbani, Aisha Hassan

Session 5.2 5 papers

Track 8 — Digital Technologies for Sustainable Hajj and Umrah Solutions

Hall:
Al-Shaer Hall
Session Chair:
Dr. Maha Modather
  1. #26

    Equitable Heat-Aware Crowd Routing for the Hajj

    Rejaul Karim, Adam Zuber

  2. #43

    Digital Technologies for Sustainable Hajj and Umrah: A Topic-Model Map of Technology Coverage, Evidence Maturity, and Research White Spaces

    Yousif Elsamani

  3. #162

    Supporting Children with Autism in High-Density Public Spaces: A Conceptual Framework for ICT-Based Assistive Technologies in the Madina Haram

    Jamal Mohammed, Abdul Wasay Mohammed, Ahmed Taha, Sarfaraz Rabbani

  4. #46

    AI-based Framework for Umrah Demand Forecasting and Sustainable Hajj–Umrah Service Planning

    Saad Almohammadi, Khaled Alyoubi, Abdulaziz Alsulami, Hani Aljahdali

  5. #106

    A Zero-Trust Reference Architecture for Sovereign Data Centre Security in Hajj and Umrah Digital Infrastructure

    Umar Badat (online presentation)