CAIN 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 13 Apr 2026 14:40 - 14:52 at Oceania X - Quality Attributes and Assurance Chair(s): Eric Knauss

The quality assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is a fundamental challenge due to their inherently probabilistic nature. Standards such as ISO/IEC 25059 provide a quality model, but they lack practical and statistically robust methods for assessing functional correctness. This paper proposes and evaluates the Statistical Confidence in Functional Correctness (SCFC) approach, which seeks to fill this gap by connecting business requirements to a measure of statistical confidence that considers both the model’s average performance and its variability. The approach consists of four steps: defining quantitative specification limits, performing stratified and probabilistic sampling, applying bootstrapping to estimate a confidence interval for the performance metric, and calculating a capability index as a final indicator. The approach was evaluated through a case study on two real-world AI systems in industry involving interviews with AI experts. Valuable insights were collected from the experts regarding the utility, ease of use, and intention to adopt the methodology in practical scenarios. We conclude that the proposed approach is a feasible and valuable way to operationalize the assessment of functional correctness, moving the evaluation from a point estimate to a statement of statistical confidence.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 13 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
Quality Attributes and AssuranceResearch Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Eric Knauss Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
14:00
8m
Short-paper
Quality Model for Machine Learning ComponentsShort Paper
Research Track
Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Rachel A Brower-Sinning Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Robert Edman Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University, Sebastian Echeverria Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Alex Derr Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Collin Beaudoin Fairfield University, Katherine R. Maffey Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
14:08
12m
Full-paper
Optimising for Energy Efficiency and Performance in Machine LearningFull Paper
Research Track
Emile Dos Santos Ferreira University of Cambridge, Andrei Paleyes Department of Computer Science and Technology, Univesity of Cambridge, Neil D. Lawrence Department of Computer Science and Technology, Univesity of Cambridge
Pre-print
14:20
8m
Short-paper
The Energy Impact of Domain Model Design in Classical PlanningShort Paper
Research Track
Ilche Georgievski University of Stuttgart, Serhat Tekin University of Stuttgart, Marco Aiello University of Stuttgart
Pre-print
14:28
12m
Full-paper
LLMs as Design Partners for AI-Based System Patterns: An Empirical EvaluationFull Paper
Research Track
Felipe Rodrigues de Oliveira State University of Ceara, Brazil, Felipe Vasconcelos De Souza State University of Ceara, Brazil, Ana Luiza Bessa De Paula Barros State University of Ceara, Brazil, Paulo Maia State University of Ceará
14:40
12m
Full-paper
Statistical Confidence in Functional Correctness: An Approach for AI Product Functional Correctness EvaluationFull Paper
Research Track
Wallace Albertini Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Marina Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Júlia Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Antonio Pedro Santos Alves Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
14:52
12m
Full-paper
SETA: Statistical Fault Attribution for Compound AI SystemsFull PaperVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Sayak Chowdhury IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Meenakshi D'Souza IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Pre-print File Attached
15:04
26m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Quality Attributes and Assurance)
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