EASE 2026
Tue 9 - Fri 12 June 2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Fri 12 Jun 2026 11:00 - 11:10 at JMS 507 - EQUISA 1

AI-based technologies increasingly influence everyday life, making it essential to ensure fairness in their responses. Fairness metrics are essential to detect potential bias in machine learning-based decision-making systems. However, many of these metrics are mathematically incompatible and cannot be satisfied simultaneously. As a result, fairness metrics must be carefully tailored to the specific application scenario and the system objectives. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist developers in selecting appropriate fairness metrics, their internal representations of fairness are neither curated nor systematically organized. This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of FairMAid (Fairness Metrics Aider), an approach that combines the interpretive and generative capabilities of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a curated formal knowledge base to deliver context-sensitive recommendations for task-specific fairness metrics. The approach involves two main aspects: (i) constructing a curated and extensive knowledge base of fairness metrics that facilitates the incorporation of fairness metrics emerging from diverse domains and (ii) integrating it with an LLM. Preliminary results show promising recommendation performance in common scenarios, although the responses are not always completely satisfactory in some specific contexts.

Fri 12 Jun

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09:00 - 17:00
EQUISA 1EQUISA at JMS 507
09:00
10m
Day opening
EQUISA Opening
EQUISA

09:10
50m
Keynote
AI Assistance and the Limits of Use in Software Development
EQUISA
Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
10:00
15m
Talk
Evaluating LLM-Generated Code: A Benchmark and Developer Study
EQUISA
Joanna Szych IU Internationale Hochschule Bad Honnef, Anne Schwerk IU Internationale Hochschule Bad Honnef
10:15
15m
Talk
From Program Slices to Causal Clarity: Evaluating Faithful, Actionable LLM-Generated Failure Explanations via Context Partitioning and LLM-as-a-Judge
EQUISA
Julius Porbeck Hasso Plattner Institute, Christian Medeiros Adriano Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Holger Giese Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
10:30
30m
Break
Coffee break
EQUISA

11:00
10m
Talk
FairMAid: An LLM-based Fairness Metrics Recommender System
EQUISA
Arnaldo Sgueglia , Gregorio Dalia University of Sannio, Aniello Anzevino University of Sannio, Corrado Visaggio University of Foggia, Italy, Andrea Di Sorbo University of Sannio
11:10
10m
Talk
Merge or Malice? Investigating Toxicity Around AI Pull Requests
EQUISA
Anwar Hossain Efat Idaho State University, Minhaz Zibran Idaho State University, Farjana Eishita Idaho State University
Pre-print
11:20
15m
Talk
Neuro-Symbolic AI in Software Engineering: An Evidence-Based State-of-the-Art Analysis
EQUISA
Giammaria Giordano University of Salerno, Fabiano Pecorelli Pegaso University, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
11:35
15m
Talk
Q-ARE: An Evaluation Dataset for Query Based API Recommendation
EQUISA
Shenglong Wu National University of Defense Technology, Xunhui Zhang National University of Defense Technology, China, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology
11:50
15m
Talk
SAFEdit: Does Multi-Agent Decomposition Resolve the Reliability Challenges of Instructed Code Editing?
EQUISA
Noam Tarshish Ben Gurion University, Nofar Selouk Ben-Gurion University, Daniel Hodisan Ben-Gurion University, Bar Ezra Gafniel Ben-Gurion University, Yuval Elovici Ben-Gurion University, Asaf Shabtai Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Eliya Nachmani Ben-Gurion University
12:05
15m
Talk
Security Concerns in Generative AI Coding Assistants: Insights from Online Discussions on GitHub Copilot
EQUISA
Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra Hamburg University of Technology, Monika Swetha Gurupathi Hamburg University of Technology, Zadia Codabux University of Saskatchewan, Nalin Arachchilage RMIT University, Riccardo Scandariato Hamburg University of Technology
Pre-print
12:20
10m
Day closing
EQUISA Final Panel and Closing
EQUISA