EASE 2026
Tue 9 - Fri 12 June 2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Tue 9 Jun 2026 11:00 - 11:15 at JMS 743 - AI Systems Engineering 1 Chair(s): Jingyue Li

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes deeply embedded in the software supply chain, traditional governance and management practices are insufficient for addressing complex AI-related dependencies, such as pre-trained models, specialized datasets, and configurations. The Artificial Intelligence Bill of Materials (AIBOM) has emerged as a promising framework for providing the structured inventories needed to improve transparency in AI-powered systems and their underlying models. This paper presents a preliminary empirical investigation into the acceptance and perception of AIBOMs within the Hugging Face community. To this end, we conducted a field study by submitting 278 pull requests containing AIBOMs to a statistically significant sample of popular AI repositories hosted in Hugging Face. Our data analysis reveals a complex landscape: the acceptance of AIBOM-related pull requests was low, but contributions were more likely to be accepted in user-owned repositories than in organization-owned ones. Engagement with the Hugging Face community was limited, and perceptions of AIBOMs were mixed. Overall, these findings suggest that AIBOM adoption may initially emerge in a bottom-up manner and that further efforts, such as improved tooling and targeted adoption initiatives, are needed to support broader uptake.

Tue 9 Jun

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11:00 - 12:30
AI Systems Engineering 1Research Papers / Industry Papers / AI Models / Data at JMS 743
Chair(s): Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
11:00
15m
Talk
Are AIBOMs Welcome? On the Acceptance and Perception of Artificial Intelligence Bill of Materials on Hugging Face
AI Models / Data
Sabato Nocera University of Salerno, Simone Romano University of Salerno, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Riccardo D'Avino University of Salerno, Giuseppe Scanniello University of Salerno
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Evaluating Assurance Cases as Text-Attributed Graphs for Structure and Provenance Analysis
AI Models / Data
Fariz Ikhwantri Simula Research Laboratory, Dusica Marijan Simula
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Pimp My LLM: Leveraging Variability Modeling to Tune Inference Hyperparameters
Research Papers
Nada Zine Inria, Clément Quinton University of Lille, Romain Rouvoy Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
How Faithful Are Post-hoc Explanations for Transformer-Based Software Models?
Research Papers
Saumendu Roy University of Saskatchewan, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
Characterizing and Auto-Tuning Inference Engine Hyperparameters for Workload-Aware LLM Serving
Research Papers
Jiali Zheng National University of Defense Technology, Yifan Xie , Rui Li National University of Defense Technology, Xiang Fu National University of Defense Technology, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology
12:15
10m
Talk
Requirements Debt in AI-Enabled Perception Systems Development: An Industrial RE4AI Perspective
Industry Papers
Hina Saeeda Chalmers University Sweden, Soniya Abraham Chalmers University of Technology
Pre-print