Publications

Researchers from 14 institutes and centres are working with industry and institutional partners to develop innovative, scientifically based solutions. This research work is documented in a number of scientific publications.

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Hänzi, Sascha; Burri, Adrian; Schmid, Daniel; Klopfer, René; et al.,

2026.

Enabling efficient life cycle assessment (LCA) during product development with LCA-cubes[paper].

In:

IFIP 23rd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Lecce, Italy, 6-8 July 2026.
Hänzi, Sascha; Thinagar, Sivaraman; Schmid, Daniel,

2026.

Suitability of STEP file format with PMI for automated quotations[paper].

In:

IFIP 23rd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Lecce, Italy, 6-8 July 2026.
Lack, Silvan; Lanfant, Briac; Hänzi, Sascha; Klopfer, René; Meyer, Benjamin; Abdulkadir, Ahmed; Stadelmann, Thilo; Schmid, Daniel,

2026.

A unified cost estimation framework combining milling, turning, AM, and sheet metal processing[paper].

In:

IFIP 23rd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Lecce, Italy, 6-8 July 2026.

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37255
Kim, Seungmin; Jazbinsek, Mojca; Yoon, Woojin; Yun, Hoseop; Kwon, O‐Pil,

2026.

New fluoro-benzothiazolium crystals with non-centrosymmetric molecular ordering.

Macromolecular Research.
Fathi, Kiavash; Mitici, Mihaela; Kleinert, Tobias; van de Venn, Hans Wernher,

2026.

Failure-mode-informed development of remaining useful life prognostics[paper].

In:

Do, Phuc; Ezhilarasu, Cordelia; Bregon, Anibal, eds.,

Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society 2026.

9th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, Oslo, Norway, 8-10 July 2026.

PHM Society.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37237
Apostolopoulou, Niki; Mavromatidis, Georgios; Knoeri, Christof,

2026.

Optimal decarbonization strategies for existing buildings : comparative analysis of retrofitting, repurposing and replacement.

Energy and Buildings.

368(117790).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37053
Plonczak, Antoni; Wüest, Matthias; Goren Huber, Lilach,

2026.

Physics-constrained deep learning for interpretable anomaly detection in large battery packs with limited monitoring granularity[paper].

In:

Do, Phuc; Ezhilarasu, Cordelia; Bregon, Anibal, eds.,

Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society 2026.

9th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, Oslo, Norway, 8-10 July 2026.

PHM Society.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-37003
Kozadajevs, Jegenijs; Obusevs, Artjoms; Sauhats, Antans Saulius; Losevs, Marks,

2026.

Low-complexity price-based control strategy for residential PV-battery systems using low-cost PLC hardware[paper].

In:

Proceedings of IEEE GEPCOM 2026.

8th Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM), Naples, Italy, 3-5 June 2026.

IEEE.

pp. 685-690.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36911
Hearn, Adam Xavier; Schubert, Iljana; Koehrsen, Jens; Sohre, Annika; Hamed, Hagar,

2026.

Barriers, enablers and critical collaborations in the case of positive energy districts.

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.

8(1808466).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36897
Bamdad, Marziyeh; Günther, Manuel; Darvishy, Alireza,

2026.

Navigating independence : a survey of visually impaired people's experiences and needs[paper].

In:

International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Brno, Czech Republic, 15-17 July 2026.

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36427
Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark,

2026.

ReproHum #0031–01 : reproducing a human readability evaluation for question–answer generation systems[paper].

In:

Mille, Simon; Gehrmann, Sebastian; Schmidtová, Patrícia; Dušek, Ondřej; Fadaee, Marzieh; Lo, Kyle; Santus, Enrico; Stanovsky, Gabriel, eds.,

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM).

Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM), San Diego, USA, 2-3 July 2026.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 1111-1116.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36904
Kölbl, Nikola; Tziridis, Konstantin; Maier, Andreas; Kinfe, Thomas; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Schilling, Achim; Krauss, Patrick,

2026.

The predictive brain : neural correlates of word expectancy align with large language model prediction probabilities.

NeuroImage.

334(121966).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36546
van Zelderen, Anand P. A.; Masters-Waage, Theodore C.; Affinito, Salvatore J.; Bekbergenova, Anely; Cowan, Kirsten; Hartmann, Tilo; Hausfeld, Mary M.; Jolink, Albert; Korbel, Jakob J.; Lynn, Theo; Renier, Laetitia; Singh, Dhruv P.; Wu, Sinuo; Banakou, Domna; Bayro, Allison; Bosse, Tibor; Derous, Eva; Draschkow, Dejan; Ferguson, Kristen A.; Fritz, Thomas; Gomez-Zara, Diego; Hauser, Christian; He, Vivianna Fang; Howe, Lauren C.; Jain, Devesh; Kinias, Zoe; Lukic, Yanick X.; Menges, Jochen I.; Mortezapour, Alireza; Nagaraj, Abhishek; Park, Chan Hyung; Persky, Susan; Remund, Moritz; Sanchez, Diana R.; Schellaert, Maaike; Streuber, Stephan; Viganò, Eleonora; Villano, Michael; Vleugels, Wouter; Zank, Markus; Hubbard, Timothy D.,

2026.

Creating common virtual ground : protocols to democratize open VR research.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

123(26), pp. e2524991123.
Egli, Jasmine; Balebako, Rebecca,

2026.

How to compare the security of code written by humans to LLM-generated code[paper].

In:

Joint Proceedings of the STAF 2026 Workshop, LLM4SE.

Second Workshop on Large Language Models For Generative Software Engineering (LLM4SE), Rennes, France, 30 June 2026.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36877
Lukaj, Alessio; Wadehn, Federico; Loeliger, Hans-Andrea,

2026.

Automatic regularization and estimation of multiple scale factors in linear Gaussian and non-Gaussian models[paper].

In:

2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Guangzhou, China, 28 June - 3 July 2026.

IEEE.
Wilms, Mieke; Heitz, Christoph,

2026.

Fairness vs performance : characterizing the Pareto frontier of algorithmic decision systems[paper].

In:

9th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Montreal, Canada, 25-28 June 2026.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 2885-2907.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36885
Gupta, Kavya; Kalampalikis, Nektarios; Heitz, Christoph; Valera, Isabel,

2026.

First-see-then-design : a multi-stakeholder view for optimal performance-fairness trade-offs[paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

9th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Montréal, Canada, 25-28 June 2026.

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 218-248.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36874
A. S’afari, Sara; Janisch, Maximilian; Lehéricy, Thomas,

2026.

International financial markets through 150 years : evaluating stylized facts.

The Journal of Finance and Data Science.

(100196).
Kim, Hoon; Kong, Taewoong; Achermann, Basil B.; Lee, Gyeongeun; Lorenzetti, Silvio R.,

2026.

Reduced metabolic energy cost in bounce squats driven by lower vasti contribution during the eccentric phase.

BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Fallah, Arash S.; Bereznykov, Oleksii V.; Mehreganian, Navid; Toolabi, Milad; Safa, Yasser,

2026.

Twisting the spectrum : phononic band structures in auxetic metamaterials.

Results in Engineering.

32(111631).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36912