CAIN 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
Mon 13 Apr 2026 16:00 - 16:08 at Oceania X - Engineering GenAI Systems Chair(s): Karthik Vaidhyanathan

Engineering LLM-native software remains a challenging and immature field. Current practice is largely exploratory, relying on experimentation and heuristic techniques such as prompting and context engineering. These, however, are low-level and lack the principled structure needed to support design-level reasoning or analysis. In contrast, traditional software engineering leverages modularity and abstraction to communicate and analyze system behavior. To bring similar rigor to LLM-native development, we propose methods for documenting generative flows and for stating properties of LLM-based software designs. Such methods must account for the stochastic, prompt-dependent behavior of large language models while remaining abstract and expressive enough to capture emergent phenomena. Our initial approach is based on graphical probabilistic models, tailored to capture phenomena characteristic of LLM-native systems. This framework—what we term Generation Networks—aims to provide a foundation for principled reasoning about generative interactions and system-level properties in LLM-centric software architectures.

Mon 13 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

16:00 - 17:30
Engineering GenAI SystemsIndustry Track / Research Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
16:00
8m
Short-paper
Graphical-Probabilistic Modeling of Generative Flows in LLM-Native Software SystemsShort Paper
Research Track
Víctor Braberman ICC (UBA-CONICET), Flavia Bonomo-Braberman Universidad de Buenos Aires
16:08
12m
Full-paper
Cognition Envelopes for Bounded AI Reasoning in Autonomous UAS OperationsFull Paper
Research Track
Pedro Alarcon Granadeno University of Notre Dame, Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal University of Notre Dame, Sofia Nelson University of Notre Dame, Demetrius Hernandez University of Notre Dame, Maureen Petterson University of Notre Dame, Michael Murphy University of Notre Dame, Walter J. Scheirer University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
Pre-print
16:20
8m
Industry talk
Current challenges and new prospects in software engineering practices for Geospatial AIShort Paper
Industry Track
16:28
8m
Short-paper
The Physics of AIShort Paper
Research Track
Scott Barnett Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Deakin University, Aleksandar Pasquini Deakin University, Stefanus Kurniawan Deakin University, Shangeetha Sivasothy Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Rhys Hill Deakin University, Rajesh Vasa Deakin University, Australia
16:36
12m
Full-paper
RAG-DIVE: A Dynamic Approach for Multi-Turn Dialogue Evaluation in Retrieval-Augmented GenerationFull Paper
Research Track
Lorenz Brehme University of Innsbruck, Austria, Benedikt Dornauer University of Innsbruck; University of Cologne, Jan-Henrik Böttcher University of Hildesheim, Klaus Schmid University of Hildesheim, Ruth Breu University of Innsbruck, Mircea-Cristian Racasan c.c.com Moser GmbH, 8074 Grambach, Austria
16:48
8m
Short-paper
Assisting Developers in the Selection of Generative AI ModelsShort Paper
Research Track
Raquel Berenguer Mueller Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Sergio Cobos IN3 - UOC, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Robert Clarisó Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
16:56
19m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Engineering GenAI Systems)
CAIN Program

17:15
15m
Day closing
Closing
CAIN Program