SANER 2026
Tue 17 - Fri 20 March 2026 Limassol, Cyprus

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Security protocols play a crucial role in ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of communications over untrusted networks, and their correctness is essential to the overall security of systems. However, the traditional modeling and verification process of security protocols often relies heavily on domain experts, making it time-consuming and difficult to scale. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generation and semantic reasoning, creating new opportunities for automating the formal modeling of security protocols. However, existing methods still lack domain-specific knowledge and struggle to capture implicit semantics effectively. In this early-stage work, we explore a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based, LLM-assisted modeling framework that automates the generation of formal Tamarin models from natural-language protocol descriptions. The framework first parses protocol text to extract semi-structured key information, then leverages a domain-specific knowledge graph to enhance semantic understanding, and finally integrates a verification-guided feedback loop to improve model reliability and interpretability through verification-guided refinement. Preliminary experiments show a 23.68% improvement in syntactic correctness compared with the state-of-the-art baseline. These results suggest a promising direction for automated and explainable formal modeling of security protocols.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 19 Mar

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
11m
Talk
Requirement Formalization using Large Language Models
Research Track
Zhiyuan Hu National University of Defense Technology, Wei Ma Singapore Management University, Qiang Wang Academy of Military Sciences, Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University, Dongsheng Li National University of Defense Technology
14:11
11m
Talk
Understanding Specification-Driven Code Generation with LLMs: An Empirical Study Design
Registered Report Track
Giovanni Rosa Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, David Moreno-Lumbreras Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
14:22
11m
Talk
AI-Assisted Requirements Traceability for Large-Scale Optical Network Systems: An Industrial Experience Report
Industrial Track
14:33
11m
Talk
From Textual Descriptions to Code: A Filtering Approach for Locating Business Rules
Industrial Track
Nour Ayachi Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL F-59000 Lille, France, Benoit Verhaeghe Berger-Levrault, Christopher Fuhrman École de technologie supérieure, Nicolas Anquetil University of Lille, Lille, France
14:45
11m
Talk
Generating User Clones from Questionnaires: A Lightweight Approach to Requirements Elicitation
Short Papers and Posters Track
Mai Hirabayashi Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Waseda University, Juichi Takahashi AGEST, Inc, Yohei Takagi AGEST Inc.
14:56
11m
Talk
How Well Does Knowledge Injection Enhance LLM-aided Formal Protocol Modeling?
Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track
Yajia Lin Xidian University, Jie Su Xidian University, Cheng Wen Xidian University, rong wang , Cong Tian Xidian University, Zhenhua Duan Xidian University, Shengchao Qin Xidian University
15:07
11m
Talk
LLM Driven Business Rule Extraction from Enterprise Applications
Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track
Shrishti Pradhan TCS Research, Aishwarya Malvade TCS Research, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Manasi Patwardhan TCS Research
15:18
11m
Talk
SQL3M: Token Efficient Text-to-SQL Generation
Short Papers and Posters Track
Ibrahim Ücelehan Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Alina Geiger Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Dominik Sobania University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany