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Sun 12 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
Sun 12 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
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 30mDay opening | Opening CAIN Program | ||
09:30 60mKeynote | Engineering Maturity for AI Adoption: Lessons from Industry Keynote CAIN 2026 – Keynote Speakers Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University | ||
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 60mMeeting | 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 2hSocial Event | CAIN Reception CAIN Program | ||
Mon 13 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
Mon 13 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 30mKeynote | AI Reinventing Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology | ||
11:30 30mDoctoral 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 30mDoctoral 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 | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mDoctoral 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 30mDoctoral symposium paper | Characterizing Architectural Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled SystemsDoctoral Symposium Doctoral Symposium Renato Cordeiro Ferreira University of São Paulo | ||
15:00 30mKeynote | 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 8mShort-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 12mFull-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 8mShort-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 12mFull-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 12mFull-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 12mFull-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 26mLive 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 8mShort-paper | Graphical-Probabilistic Modeling of Generative Flows in LLM-Native Software SystemsShort Paper Research Track | ||
16:08 12mFull-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 8mIndustry talk | Current challenges and new prospects in software engineering practices for Geospatial AIShort Paper Industry Track | ||
16:28 8mShort-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 12mFull-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 8mShort-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 19mLive Q&A | Joint Q&A (Engineering GenAI Systems) CAIN Program | ||
17:15 15mDay closing | Closing CAIN Program | ||