CAIN 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Sun 12 Apr

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09:00 - 10:30
Opening & KeynoteDoctoral Symposium / CAIN Scope / Industry Track / Journal-First Track / Research Track / / Posters / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
09:00
30m
Day opening
Opening
CAIN Program

09:30
60m
Keynote
Engineering Maturity for AI Adoption: Lessons from Industry Keynote
CAIN 2026 – Keynote Speakers
Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University
11:00 - 12:30
Engineering Agentic SystemsIndustry Track / Research Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy
11:00
8m
Short-paper
Towards an Approach for Specifying Intelligent Systems Involving Foundation Model Based AgentsShort Paper
Research Track
Júlia Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Marina Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), José M. C. Boaro Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
11:08
12m
Full-paper
Saving SWE-Bench: A Benchmark Mutation Approach for Realistic Agent EvaluationFull Paper
Research Track
Spandan Garg Microsoft Corporation, Benjamin Steenhoek Microsoft, Yufan Huang
Pre-print
11:20
12m
Industry talk
Context Sharing Strategies for Production Multi-Agent AI Systems: An Industrial EvaluationFull Paper
Industry Track
Minav Suresh Patel Independent Researcher, Rohit Dhawan Independent Researcher, Priyank Desai Amazon.com, Ankush Dhar Amazon
11:32
8m
Industry talk
Managing Variability in Industrial AI Agents for Manufacturing: Experiences at HitachiShort Paper
Industry Track
DOI
11:40
8m
Short-paper
Architecting AgentOps Needs CHANGEShort Paper
Research Track
Shaunak Biswas IIIT Hyderabad, Hiya Bhatt IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
11:48
12m
Industry talk
How to Build AI Agents by Augmenting LLMs with Codified Human Expert Domain Knowledge? A Software Engineering FrameworkFull Paper
Industry Track
Choro Ulan Uulu Eindhoven University of Technology, Mikhail Kulyabin , Iris Fuhrmann , Jan Joosten , Nuno Miguel Martins Pacheco , Filippos Petridis , Rebecca Johnson , Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology, Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University
12:00
12m
Full-paper
Agentic AI Architecture for Evaluating and Improving Reinforcement Learning PipelinesFull Paper
Research Track
Evangelos Ntentos University of Vienna, Uwe Zdun University of Vienna
12:12
18m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Engineering Agentic Systems)
CAIN Program

14:00 - 15:30
Data, Transparency, and XAICAIN Program / Research Track / Industry Track at Oceania X
Chair(s): Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
14:00
12m
Full-paper
Data Annotation Errors in AI-Enabled Perception System Development: A Multi-Organisation Case Study in the Automotive DomainFull Paper
Research Track
Hina Saeeda Chalmers University Sweden, Eric Knauss Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Mazen Mohamad Chalmers | RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Tommy Johansson Kognic AB Sweden
14:12
8m
Short-paper
Model-Driven Engineering of Synthetic Data Pipelines for AI-Enabled Healthcare SystemsShort Paper
Research Track
Mukhtar Sani CEA List, France, Nicholas Matragkas Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List., Nam-khanh Nguyen DILS/LSEA CEA LIST Palaiseau, France
14:20
12m
Industry talk
Data Leakage in Automotive Perception: Practitioners' InsightsFull Paper
Industry Track
Md Abu Ahammed Babu , Sushant Kumar Pandey University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Darko Durisic , András Bálint , Miroslaw Staron Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
14:32
12m
Full-paper
AIBoMGen: Generating an AI Bill of Materials for Secure, Transparent, and Compliant Model TrainingFull Paper
Research Track
Wiebe Vandendriessche Ghent University, imec, Jordi Thijsman Ghent University, imec, Laurens D'hooge Ghent University, imec, Bruno Volckaert Ghent University, imec, Merlijn Sebrechts Ghent University, imec
Pre-print
14:44
8m
Short-paper
Leveraging Domain Requirements in Concept Based Models via Differentiable Fuzzy LogicShort Paper
Research Track
Eik Reichmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Joao Paulo Costa de Araujo Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
14:52
12m
Full-paper
Distilling Ensemble Intelligence into Explainable Anomaly Detection ModelsFull Paper
Research Track
Ashish Rauniyar SINTEF Digital, Norway, Erik Johannes Husom SINTEF Digital, Sagar Sen
15:04
26m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Data, Transparency, and XAI)
CAIN Program

16:00 - 17:30
Governance and ComplianceJournal-First Track / Industry Track / Research Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO
16:00
8m
Short-paper
Governing AI in Practice: A Typology of Four Risk-Driven ArchetypesShort Paper
Research Track
Vasil Shteriyanov Eindhoven University of Technology, Rimma Dzhusupova Eindhoven University of Technology, Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology, Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University
16:08
12m
Industry talk
Applying a Requirements-Focused Agile Management Approach for Machine Learning-Enabled SystemsFull Paper
Industry Track
Lucas Cordeiro Romão , Luíz Xavier , Júlia Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Marina Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Ariane Rodrigues , Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Pre-print
16:20
8m
Short-paper
Governed Configuration for AI-Enabled Systems: Maintaining Tuned Variables in CI/CDShort Paper
Research Track
Nimrod Busany Traigent
16:28
8m
Industry talk
The Expert Validation Framework (EVF): Enabling Domain Expert Control in AI EngineeringShort Paper
Industry Track
Lucas Gren Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Felix Dobslaw Mid Sweden University
Pre-print
16:36
12m
Talk
Legal Aspects for Software Developers Interested in Generative AI ApplicationsFull Paper
Journal-First Track
Steffen Herbold University of Passau, Brian Valerius University of Passau, Anamaria Mojica-Hanke Universitity of Passau, Isabella Lex , Joel Mittel
Link to publication
16:48
12m
Full-paper
Criminal Liability of Generative Artificial Intelligence Providers for User-Generated Child Sexual Abuse MaterialFull Paper
Research Track
Anamaria Mojica-Hanke Universitity of Passau, Thomas Goger Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime, Svenja Wölfel University of Passau, Brian Valerius University of Passau, Steffen Herbold University of Passau
Pre-print Media Attached
17:00
30m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Governance, Compliance, and Ethics)
CAIN Program

17:30 - 18:30
CAIN Town Hall MeetingDoctoral Symposium / CAIN Scope / Industry Track / Journal-First Track / Research Track / / Posters / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg
17:30
60m
Meeting
CAIN Town Hall Meeting
CAIN Program

19:00 - 21:00
CAIN ReceptionDoctoral Symposium / CAIN Scope / Industry Track / Journal-First Track / Research Track / / Posters / CAIN Program at Europa II
Chair(s): Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO
19:00
2h
Social Event
CAIN Reception
CAIN Program
Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO

Mon 13 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

09:00 - 10:30
Keynote & Doctoral Symposium & PostersDoctoral Symposium / CAIN Scope / Industry Track / Journal-First Track / Research Track / / Posters / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, Vincenzo Stoico Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
09:00
60m
Keynote
Engineering Governable Agentic Knowledge Fabrics for Discovery ApplicationsKeynote
CAIN Program
Renato Cerqueira PUC-Behring Institute for Artificial Intelligence
10:00
3m
Doctoral symposium paper
Closing the Diagnostic Gap: An Explainable Testing Framework for Validation and Verification of AI-Based SystemsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Halit Eris Technical University of Munich
10:03
3m
Doctoral symposium paper
The Inauditable Lie: Achieving Verifiable and Compliant AI Systems by DesignDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Filippo Scaramuzza Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology
10:06
3m
Doctoral symposium paper
Toward Architecture-Aware Evaluation Metrics for LLM AgentsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Débora Lêda de Lucena Souza Federal University of Campina Grande
10:09
3m
Doctoral symposium paper
Characterizing Architectural Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled SystemsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira University of São Paulo
10:12
3m
Poster
Integrating Medallion Architecture and RAG for Secure LLM Products DevelopmentPoster
Posters
Leonardo da Silva Gomes Universidade de São Paulo, Suzane Duarte University of Brasilia (UnB), Isaque Alves University of São Paulo, Carla Silva Rocha Aguiar University of Brasilia (UnB)
10:15
3m
Poster
Towards "ENERGY STAR" LLM-Enabled Software Engineering Tools with RAG and Prompt Engineering TechniquesPoster
Posters
Himon Thakur University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), Armin Moin University of Colorado Colorado Springs
10:18
3m
Poster
Using Model Based System Engineering to define Operational Design Domain and Graphical Safety Notation to support trustworthiness of AI based systemsPoster
Posters
Asma Smaoui DILS/LSEA CEA LIST Palaiseau, France, Nam-khanh Nguyen DILS/LSEA CEA LIST Palaiseau, France, Adedjouma Morayo DILS/LSEA CEA LIST Palaiseau, France
10:21
3m
Poster
Towards an Approach to Support Knowledge Acquisition for Engineering AI-Enabled SystemsPoster
Posters
Marina Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Júlia Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Romeu Oliveira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
11:00 - 12:30
DS Session 1Doctoral Symposium at Capri V
Chair(s): Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University
11:00
30m
Keynote
AI Reinventing Software Engineering
Doctoral Symposium
Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology
11:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Closing the Diagnostic Gap: An Explainable Testing Framework for Validation and Verification of AI-Based SystemsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Halit Eris Technical University of Munich
12:00
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
The Inauditable Lie: Achieving Verifiable and Compliant AI Systems by DesignDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Filippo Scaramuzza Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology
11:00 - 12:30
MLOps and MonitoringIndustry Track / Research Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
11:00
8m
Short-paper
RLOps Pipeline Development with Low-Code and Large Language Models for Industry 4.0Short Paper
Research Track
Stephen John Warnett University of Vienna, Uwe Zdun University of Vienna, Sebastian Geiger Siemens AG Österreich
Pre-print
11:08
8m
Short-paper
A Systematic Review of MLOps Tools: Tool Adoption, Lifecycle Coverage, and Critical InsightsShort Paper
Research Track
Zakkarija Micallef Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, Keerthiga Rajenthiram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:16
12m
Industry talk
Engineering AI Agents for Clinical Workflows: A Case Study in Architecture, MLOps, and GovernanceFull Paper
Industry Track
11:28
8m
Industry talk
MLOX: Open-Source MLOps for the Rest of UsShort Paper
Industry Track
Nico Görnitz , Lucca Occsner , Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann Employed by Green Coding Solutions
11:36
12m
Full-paper
RegDriftKit: A Toolkit for Generating Data and Benchmarking Drift Detection in Regression TasksFull Paper
Research Track
Oz Kilic Carleton University, Justin Charbonneau IFS Canada Inc., Elio Velazquez IFS Canada Inc., Olga Baysal Carleton University
DOI Pre-print
11:48
12m
Full-paper
Machine Learning Observability in PracticeFull Paper
Research Track
Joran Leest Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Claudia Raibulet Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print
12:00
8m
Short-paper
Explaining Shifts in Machine Learning Systems with Causal MapsShort Paper
Research Track
Joran Leest Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Claudia Raibulet Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print
12:08
22m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (MLOps and Monitoring)
CAIN Program

14:00 - 15:30
DS Session 2Doctoral Symposium at Capri V
Chair(s): Helena Holmström Olsson Malmö University
14:00
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Toward Architecture-Aware Evaluation Metrics for LLM AgentsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Débora Lêda de Lucena Souza Federal University of Campina Grande
14:30
30m
Doctoral symposium paper
Characterizing Architectural Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled SystemsDoctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira University of São Paulo
15:00
30m
Keynote
Spray and Pray: Curse or Cure for Academic Publishing in the Age of GenAI?
Doctoral Symposium
Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
14:00 - 15:30
Quality Attributes and AssuranceResearch Track / CAIN Program at Oceania X
Chair(s): Eric Knauss Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
14:00
8m
Short-paper
Quality Model for Machine Learning ComponentsShort Paper
Research Track
Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Rachel A Brower-Sinning Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Robert Edman Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University, Sebastian Echeverria Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Alex Derr Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Collin Beaudoin Fairfield University, Katherine R. Maffey Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
14:08
12m
Full-paper
Optimising for Energy Efficiency and Performance in Machine LearningFull Paper
Research Track
Emile Dos Santos Ferreira University of Cambridge, Andrei Paleyes Department of Computer Science and Technology, Univesity of Cambridge, Neil D. Lawrence Department of Computer Science and Technology, Univesity of Cambridge
Pre-print
14:20
8m
Short-paper
The Energy Impact of Domain Model Design in Classical PlanningShort Paper
Research Track
Ilche Georgievski University of Stuttgart, Serhat Tekin University of Stuttgart, Marco Aiello University of Stuttgart
Pre-print
14:28
12m
Full-paper
LLMs as Design Partners for AI-Based System Patterns: An Empirical EvaluationFull Paper
Research Track
Felipe Rodrigues de Oliveira State University of Ceara, Brazil, Felipe Vasconcelos De Souza State University of Ceara, Brazil, Ana Luiza Bessa De Paula Barros State University of Ceara, Brazil, Paulo Maia State University of Ceará
14:40
12m
Full-paper
Statistical Confidence in Functional Correctness: An Approach for AI Product Functional Correctness EvaluationFull Paper
Research Track
Wallace Albertini Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Marina Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Júlia Condé Araújo Department of Informatics - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Antonio Pedro Santos Alves Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
14:52
12m
Full-paper
SETA: Statistical Fault Attribution for Compound AI SystemsFull Paper
Research Track
Sayak Chowdhury IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Meenakshi D'Souza IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Pre-print
15:04
26m
Live Q&A
Joint Q&A (Quality Attributes and Assurance)
CAIN Program

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 , 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