DX 2026
Tue 1 - Thu 3 September 2026

Info for our presenters: each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (including Q&A), please prepare presentations between 20 and 22 minutes so that there is enough time for discussions.

We marked the candidates for the DX’26 Best Paper Award with the prefix (AC) in the titles. We marked also Encore, DX Competition and Short papers in the title. Please note that in 2026, the DX Conference and the TIME Symposium have a shared registration. This allows all attendees to join talks of either event, and we will have a joint program on Wednesday the 2nd. For more information on the TIME Symposium’s schedule, please visit the TIME Symposium website.

Tuesday, September 1st

08:30 - 09:00 DX and TIME registration
09:00 - 09:20 Opening - shared with TIME chaired by Gregory Provan, Marina Zanella, Andrea Orlandini, Sophie Pinchinat, and Ingo Pill
9:30 - 10:30 Engineering Resilience for Critical Infrastructure
DX'26 invited talk by Prof. Utz Roedig, Professor of Security and AI, UCC, hosted by Gregory Provan
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 DX Paper Session 1
  • (AC) On the Practical Utility of Diagnoses, by Ingo Pill and Johan de Kleer
  • HSU TwinFlow: A Living Benchmark for Evaluating Data-Driven Methods for Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Using Digital-Twin-Generated Data, by Nemanja Hranisavljevic, Alexander Diedrich, Lukas Moddemann, Domenic Schaeffer, Frank Marek, Ingo Pill and Oliver Niggemann
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 DX Paper Session 2
  • (Encore) Summary of: Modelling Cyber-Physical Systems for Fault Diagnosis, by Alexander Diedrich, Mattias Krysander, René Heesch and Oliver Niggemann
  • (Encore) Uncertainty-Aware Fault Diagnosis of Unknown Faults Using Ensemble-Based NODE Residuals, by Daniel Jung and Theodor Westny
  • FELIX: Model Repair in Numeric Planning, by Nir Aharoni, Yarin Benyamin, Shiwali Mohan and Roni Stern
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 DX Paper Session 3
  • (DX Competition) Physics-Informed ML Diagnostic Engine: DXC’26 LiU-ICE Track Solution by Antoni Rogowski and Anna Sztyber-Betley
  • A Geometric Theory of Model-Based Diagnosis, by Gregory Provan
  • (AC) Early Failure Prediction from Near-Anomaly Detection: A Proactive Approach, by Léa Billet, Louise Travé-Massuyès, Elodie Chanthery and Alexandre Gaffet
16:30 - 18:00 DX Ph.D. panel chaired by Marina Zanella, expert feedback by Johan de Kleer and Franz Wotawa
  • Felix Janzen: Fault Diagnosis of Pump Systems with Surrogate Foundation Models: A Simulation-First, Industry-Validated ApproachUnsupervised Multimodal Learning for Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis
  • Lukas Moddemann: Learning Interpretable System Representations for Root-Cause Diagnosis from Time Series Data
18:00 - 20:00 (Preliminary Schedule) DX and TIME Welcome Reception chaired by the DX'26 and TIME'26 chairs Gregory Provan, Marina Zanella, Andrea Orlandini, Sophie Pinchinat and Ingo Pill

Wednesday, September 2nd (Joint Program with TIME)

8:50 - 9:00 Announcements of the day (social event)
9:00 - 10:30 From Runtime Verification to Model-Based Diagnosis
DX'26 and TIME'26 keynote by Alessandro Cimatti, Director of Fondazione Bruno Kessler's Digital Industry Center, hosted by Ingo Pill and Andrea Orlandini
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Joint Paper Session 1 chaired by Marina Zanella
  • Planning Domain Repair using Preferred Plans and Background Knowledge, by Thomas Eckstein and Gerald Steinbauer
  • (AC) Reinforcement Learning-Driven Predictive Maintenance Planning via Timed Automata Modeling, by Ferhat Tamssaouet, Pauline Ribot and Yannick Pencolé
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Joint Paper Session 2 chaired by Andrea Orlandini
  • A Multi-Scale Process for Mining and Abstracting Environmental Spatiotemporal Graphs, by Assaad Zeghina, Aurélie Leborgne, Florence Le Ber and Antoine Vacavant
  • The Satisfiability Problem of Temporal-Spatial Logics over Quasi-Temporal Graphs, by Eric Alsmann, Martin Lange and Igor Semezies
  • Dynamic Quantitative Skill Distribution in Multi-Agent Temporal Planning as SMT, by Josselin Guéneron and Frédéric Maris
14:30 - 15:00 (Preliminary Schedule) Preparations for the Social Event: Boarding the Bus
15:00 - 21:30 (Preliminary Schedule) Social Event: Bus Tour to Kinsale, Kinsale Tour, Scenic Walk, Gala Dinner, Return to Cork chaired by Gregory Provan

Thursday, September 3rd

9:00 - 10:30 DX Paper Session 4
  • Using SMLs and LLMs for Diagnosis, by Sophia Plank and Franz Wotawa
  • Geometric feature selection for interpretable SVM classifiers in cyber-physical systems, by Léonie Hatte, Pauline Ribot and Elodie Chanthery
  • An Explainable GNN Framework for Component-Level Anomaly Diagnosis, by Sena Ozgunay, Louise Travé-Massuyès, Jean Michel Loubes and Raul Sena Ferreira
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 DX Paper Session 5
  • QSIM-Guided Weak Supervision for Fault Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems, by Ankita Das, Roxane Koitz-Hristov and Franz Wotawa
  • (AC) Hybrid Fault Detection and Isolation for the Fuel Turbopump Subsystem of the LOX/LNG Expander-Bleed Rocket Engine LUMEN, by Eldin Kurudzija, Kai Dresia, Günther Waxenegger-Wilfing, Marcos Quinones-Grueiro, Austin Coursey and Gautam Biswas
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 DX Paper Session 6
  • (Short) When Dynamic Slicing Helps and Hurts Spectrum-Based Fault Localization: Evidence from an Expanded TCAS Benchmark, by Iulia Nica and Franz Wotawa
  • Dissecting NetDoktor With Entropy, Tree Simplification & Logical Abduction, by Alexander Perko, Emir Mujić and Franz Wotawa
14:00 - 15:00 Coffee Break and DX Poster Session
  • (Short) Counterfactual Fault Responsibility in a Dynamic Structural Causal Model of a DC Motor, by Emir Mujić and Franz Wotawa
  • A General Diagnostic System Specification: Integrating Diagnostic Approaches, by Gregory Provan
  • (Work in Progress) A Unified Framework for Runtime Verification and Model-Based Diagnosis in Lola, by Raik Hipler, Martin Leucker and Patrick Rodler
  • Towards Model-based Run-time Cybersecurity: On Control-Flow Anomaly Detection, Attack Identification, and Hardware Monitoring, Martin Sachenbacher, Martin Leucker, Alexander Weiss and Aliyu Tanko Ali
15:00 - 16:00 DX Business Meeting, DX Competition and DX Award Ceremony chaired by Ingo Pill
16:00 - 16:20 Closing ceremony chaired by Gregory Provan, Marina Zanella and Ingo Pill