CASCON 2026
Mon 9 - Thu 12 November 2026

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Tue 10 Nov

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08:45 - 09:00
Opening Announcements and Welcome RemarksKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote by Prof. John MylopoulosKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C

Prof. John Mylopoulos, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Talk title to be confirmed.

10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: LLMs for Code Generation and Program Repair ITechnical Papers at Hall A
10:30
30m
Talk
Evaluating Tiny Recursive Models Across Training for Code Generation
Technical Papers
A: Anjani Sirivella , A: Aanisha Newaz , A: Glaucia Melo Toronto Metropolitan University
11:00
30m
Talk
Developer-LLM Conversations: An Empirical Study of Interactions and Generated Code Quality
Technical Papers
A: Suzhen Zhong , A: Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, A: Bram Adams Queen's University
11:30
30m
Talk
Beyond Agent Logs: Cross-Layer Execution Evidence for Auditing Coding Agents
Technical Papers
A: HAITHAM AL SATAI , A: Naser Ezzati-Jivan Brock University, A: Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Security of LLM-Generated Code and Vulnerability Management ITechnical Papers at Hall B
10:30
30m
Talk
Beyond Static Guarantees: Measuring the Static-Pass Dynamic-Fail Gap in Security-Sensitive and LLM-Generated Python Code
Technical Papers
A: Jessica Pourleyli , A: Maitreyee Das Urmi , A: Glaucia Melo Toronto Metropolitan University
11:00
30m
Talk
Prompt Structure Redistributes, Not Reduces: An Empirical Analysis of Security-Weaknesses in LLM-Generated Python Code
Technical Papers
A: Maitreyee Das Urmi , A: Jessica Pourleyli , A: Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA, A: Glaucia Melo Toronto Metropolitan University
11:30
30m
Talk
Auditing the Auditors: Robustness of LLM Security Explanations
Technical Papers
A: Hasti Ghaneshirazi University of Waterloo, A: Tahsin Reza , A: Ladan Tahvildari University of Waterloo
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Anomaly Detection ITechnical Papers at Hall C
10:30
30m
Talk
ScaleGuard: Mitigating EDoS Attacks in Cloud Microservice
Technical Papers
A: Majid Dashtbani University of Waterloo, A: Ladan Tahvildari University of Waterloo
11:00
30m
Talk
Online AutoML: Evaluating Poisoning Attacks on Cost-Utility Adversarial Training Defence Strategy for IoT Networks
Technical Papers
11:30
30m
Talk
Robustness of Anomaly Detection Models for Industrial Control Systems under Training-Time Data Contamination
Technical Papers
A: Mustafa Umut Ozbek , A: Taiwo Ojo , A: Pooria Madani , A: Khalil El-Khatib Ontario Tech University, A: Li Yang Ontario Tech University
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Quantum Computing ITechnical Papers at Hall D
10:30
30m
Talk
Retromorphic Testing of Quantum Compiler Passes
Technical Papers
A: Mushahid Khan , A: Olivia Di Matteo University of British Columbia
11:00
30m
Talk
Tensor Network Simulation of Dynamic Circuits
Technical Papers
A: Innocenzo Fulginiti , A: Alessandro Poggiali , A: Christian Mendl Technical University of Munich
11:30
30m
Talk
Quantum Injection Pathways for Implicit Graph Neural Networks
Technical Papers
A: Pengyuan Xu , A: Tristan Zaborniak , A: Felipe Rivera University of Victoria, A: Hausi Müller University of Victoria
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Cloud, Systems and Performance EngineeringTechnical Papers at Hall E
10:30
30m
Talk
Building Reference Field Affinity Graphs From Compiler-generated Markov Chains
Technical Papers
A: Hassan Arafat , A: David Bremner University of New Brunswick, A: Kenneth Kent University of New Brunswick, A: Julian Wang
11:00
30m
Talk
Inexactness and Correction of Floating-Point Reciprocal, Division and Square Root
Technical Papers
A: Lucas Dutton McMaster University, A: Christopher Anand McMaster University, A: Robert Enenkel IBM Canada, A: Silvia M Mueller IBM
11:30
30m
Talk
HyRAG: A Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Log Parsing
Technical Papers
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote by Pablo IrassarKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C

Pablo Irassar, Director and ATL, Royal Bank of Canada

Talk title to be confirmed.

14:00 - 15:30
Tutorial (T1) Part 1 Tutorials at Hall A
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorial (T2) Part 1 Tutorials at Hall B
14:00 - 15:30
WKS-W1: The Sharing Problem: Privacy, Access, and Distribution in Personal AI (Part 1)Workshops at Hall C
14:00 - 15:30
Technical Paper: LLMs for Code Generation and Program Repair IITechnical Papers at Hall D
14:00
30m
Talk
Patch Agent for Fixing Program Repair Agents
Technical Papers
A: Haoran Xue , A: Gias Uddin York University, A: Song Wang York University
14:30
30m
Talk
More is not Better: Functional Plateaus and Divergence in Iterative Code Refinement
Technical Papers
A: Shizhe Lin University of Waterloo, Canada, A: Mingyang Xu University of Waterloo, A: Ladan Tahvildari University of Waterloo
15:00
30m
Talk
Revisiting Feedback-Driven LLM Code Repair: A Reproducibility and Exploratory Study
Technical Papers
A: Louis Lalonde , A: Wassim Keddache , A: Thomas Perron Touchette , A: Leuson Da Silva Polytechnique Montreal, A: Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
14:00 - 15:30
Technical Paper: Security of LLM-Generated Code and Vulnerability Management IITechnical Papers at Hall E
14:00
30m
Talk
Exploring Multi-Agents for Software Vulnerability Remediation
Technical Papers
A: Saviour Owolabi University of Calgary, A: Jessica Pourleyli , A: Ahmad Abdellatif University of Calgary, A: Glaucia Melo Toronto Metropolitan University
14:30
30m
Talk
EcoBalanced: A Long-Tail Benchmark for Patch-Stream Vulnerability Replay Under Review Budgets
Technical Papers
15:00
30m
Talk
Domain-Adaptive Static Anomaly Screening for In-Vehicle Infotainment OTA Updates
Technical Papers
A: Darwin Liao , A: Marwa Elsayed University of Western Ontario
16:00 - 17:30
Tutorial (T1) Part 2 Tutorials at Hall A
16:00 - 17:30
Tutorial (T2) Part 2 Tutorials at Hall B
16:00 - 17:30
WKS-W1: The Sharing Problem: Privacy, Access, and Distribution in Personal AI (Part 2)Workshops at Hall C
16:00 - 17:30
Technical Paper: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Anomaly Detection IITechnical Papers at Hall D
16:00
30m
Talk
ASC-PIE and SPRINT-PP: Evaluating Privacy-Safe Continual Learning for PII Extraction
Technical Papers
A: Mohamed Hafez York University, A: Amr M. Zaki York University, A: Farhoud Jafari Kaleibar York University, A: Marin Litoiu York University, Canada
16:30
30m
Talk
Visual FactSheet: Visually Summarizing Software Terms and Conditions for Informed Data Collection
Technical Papers
A: S M Mozammal Hossain , A: Aaron Tabor , A: Phil Munz , A: Kenneth Kent University of New Brunswick
17:00
30m
Talk
Managing Dependencies During Monolith Decomposition to Microservices
Technical Papers
A: Soufyane Labsari Université Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Inria, UMR 9189 - CRIStAL, A: Nicolas Anquetil University of Lille, Lille, France, A: Benoit Verhaeghe Berger-Levrault, A: Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, A: Anne Etien University of Lille, Lille, France
17:30 - 18:00
Technical Paper: LLMs for Code Generation and Program Repair II (Additional Paper)Technical Papers at Hall D
17:30
30m
Talk
PET-Select: Prompt Engineering Techniques Selection for Code Generation with Contrastive Complexity Prediction
Technical Papers
A: Luca Filippelli , A: Chung-Yu Wang York University, A: Alireza Daghighfarsoodeh York University, A: Hung Viet Pham York University
17:30 - 18:00
Technical Paper: Cloud, Systems and Performance Engineering (Additional Paper)Technical Papers at Hall E
17:30
30m
Talk
When Test-Time Training Hurts: Diagnosing and Fixing Generalizable Log Parsing
Technical Papers
A: Nafid Enan , A: Gias Uddin York University
18:15 - 20:30
Reception and Poster ExhibitPosters at 2nd Floor Lobby

Poster exhibits and author discussions run alongside the reception in the same space, with light refreshments and canapés.

18:15
2h15m
Talk
VISTA: Querying Bug Reports, Commits, and Tests for LLM-Assisted Video Game Quality Assurance
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Toward Reliable and Secure CI/CD Workflow Generation: Multi-Gate Validation and Reference Repair
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Towards an EHR-Grounded Framework for Evaluating Intersectional Bias in LLM-generated Clinical Summaries
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Can LLMs Think Like Architects?: Ontology-Grounded Evaluation of LLM-Generated Software Architecture Decisions
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Hardware-Constrained Quantum-Kernel Intrusion Detection: An Empirical Benchmark from Local Simulation to IBM Quantum Hardware
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Inference-Time Processing for Neural Database Entity Recognition Taggers
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
When Authentic Evidence Misleads: Adversarial Manipulation of CI/CD Security Assurance
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Heal Without Erasing: Forensic-Preserving Autonomous Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
FPGA-Assisted Query Routing for Distributed Similarity Search
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Test, Generate, Review: A Quality-Embedded Loop for AI-Generated Code
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
When Valid Evidence Becomes Invalid Assurance: Security Evidence Drift in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Strata: A Domain-Agnostic Parametric Generative Pipeline for Agentic AI Benchmarking
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Generating Software Performance Models from Natural Language Using Large Language Models
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
When AI Writes the Code, Where Is the Skill? Measuring Effective AI Use in Software Development
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
Beyond Prompting: Fine-Tuning and Retrieval for Backlog Technical Debt Detection with LLMs
Posters

18:15
2h15m
Talk
YANG-Assistant: Real-Time Validation and Evolution Support for YANG models in VS Code
Posters

Wed 11 Nov

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08:45 - 09:00
Opening Announcements and Welcome RemarksKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote by Maja Vukovic, PhDKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C

Maja Vukovic, PhD, IBM Fellow, AI & Automation

Talk title to be confirmed.

10:30 - 11:45
PAN1: Mainframes, Legacy, and FinTech in the Age of AIPanels at Hall B + Hall C

Moderator and panelists to be confirmed.

11:45 - 12:30
Awards Plenary and Community AnnouncementsKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C
13:30 - 14:30
Keynote by Hashmat RohianKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C

Hashmat Rohian, Vice President, EQ Bank

Talk title to be confirmed.

15:00 - 16:30
Tutorial (T3) Part 1 Tutorials at Hall A
15:00 - 16:30
Tutorial (T4) Part 1 Tutorials at Hall B
15:00 - 16:30
WKS-W2: The 2nd International Workshop on Observability and Explainability of AI Systems (OXAI 2026) (Part 1)Workshops at Hall C
15:00 - 16:30
WKS-W3: Engineering with Agentic AI: The Future of Software-Intensive Systems (Part 1)Workshops at Hall D
15:00 - 16:30
WKS-W4: Generative AI in Academic Research, Teaching, and Administration (Part 1)Workshops at Hall E
17:00 - 18:30
Tutorial (T3) Part 2 Tutorials at Hall A
17:00 - 18:30
Tutorial (T4) Part 2 Tutorials at Hall B
17:00 - 18:30
WKS-W2: The 2nd International Workshop on Observability and Explainability of AI Systems (OXAI 2026) (Part 2)Workshops at Hall C
17:00 - 18:30
WKS-W3: Engineering with Agentic AI: The Future of Software-Intensive Systems (Part 2)Workshops at Hall D
17:00 - 18:30
WKS-W4: Generative AI in Academic Research, Teaching, and Administration (Part 2)Workshops at Hall E

Thu 12 Nov

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08:45 - 09:00
Opening Announcements and Welcome RemarksKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote by Marcel MitranKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C

Marcel Mitran, IBM Fellow, CTO LinuxONE and Cloud Platform IBM Z, IBM Systems

Talk title to be confirmed.

10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: AI-Assisted Software Engineering and Developer Practice ITechnical Papers at Hall A
10:30
30m
Talk
Extending LLM-Based Support for Software Engineers with ADHD
Technical Papers
A: Aarsh Shah University of Calgary, A: Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, A: Italo Santos University of Hawaii at Manoa, A: Cleyton Magalhaes Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, A: Kiev Gama Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
11:30
30m
Talk
Can Language Models Detect Backlog Technical Debt? Empirical Evidence from Agile Projects
Technical Papers
A: Dewni Deraniyagala , A: Shazil Khan , A: Sadia Hassan Chowdhury , A: Arshpreet Singh , A: Hung Cao , A: Francis Palma Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Software Testing and Quality Assurance ITechnical Papers at Hall B
10:30
30m
Talk
RiskBlend: A Multi-Signal Framework for Test Input Prioritization in Machine Learning Regression Testing
Technical Papers
A: Madhusudan Srinivasan East Carolina University, A: Nishal Raphael Namith
11:00
30m
Talk
Evaluating Chunking Strategies and Embedding Models for Video Game Bug Report Retrieval
Technical Papers
A: Kalvin Eng University of Alberta, A: Alexander Senchenko , A: Alan Sayle Electronic Arts, A: Alex Lucas , A: Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, A: Abram Hindle University of Alberta
11:30
30m
Talk
Mixed-Embedding Models and Domain Adaptation for Bug Triaging Under Limited Data
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Patrick de Guzman , A: Savas Yildirim Istanbul Bilgi University Computer Science Department, A: Ayşe Başar Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Systems ITechnical Papers at Hall C
10:30
30m
Talk
PsyRisk-QA: Span-Level Evaluation for French–English Occupational Health RAG
Technical Papers
A: Nada Doulfoukar , A: Mehdi Adda Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
11:00
30m
Talk
Beyond Generation Metrics: A Repeated-Measures Evaluation Protocol for RAG Systems in Technical Domains
Technical Papers
A: Yasmine El Moussaoui , A: Mehdi Adda Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
11:30
30m
Talk
Preserving ALPHA: Mitigating Technical Language Dilution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Technical Papers
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Machine Learning Methods and Forecasting ITechnical Papers at Hall D
10:30
30m
Talk
A Concurrent CNN-RNN Approach for Multi-Step Wind Power Forecasting
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Berk Gorgulu , A: Syed Kazmi , A: Mustafa Baydogan
11:00
30m
Talk
Interpretable Time Series Clustering Using Local Explanations
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Ayşe Başar Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Ozan Ozyegen , A: Nicholas Prayogo
11:30
30m
Talk
Forecasting Intraday USD/CAD Exchange Rate with News-Derived Monetary-Policy Signals
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Maya Kodeih , A: Aliaa Alnaggar Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
10:30 - 12:00
Technical Paper: Applications of AI in Health, Society and IoTTechnical Papers at Hall E
10:30
30m
Talk
SAM as a Domain Adaptor: Synthetic-to-Real Depth Segmentation for Infants in the NICU
Technical Papers
A: Daniel G. Kyrollos Carleton University, A: James R. Green Carleton University
11:00
30m
Talk
Establishing a Modern Proof of Concept for Automated Cued Speech Generation via a Pose-Based Approach
Technical Papers
A: Cedric Fortin Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), A: Mohamed Moutacalli , A: Audrey Dupont
11:30
30m
Talk
SkyTerraLoc: Uncertainty-Aware UAV-Assisted Deep Localization for Terrestrial IoT Networks
Technical Papers
A: Ruhul Amin Khalil United Arab Emirates University, A: Hanane Lamaazi , A: Saddaf Rubab
13:00 - 14:30
Technical Paper: AI-Assisted Software Engineering and Developer Practice IITechnical Papers at Hall A
13:00
30m
Talk
Can LLMs Accelerate Systematic Literature Reviews?
Technical Papers
A: Oluwaseun Owojaiye , A: Christopher Anand McMaster University
13:30
30m
Talk
Open Source Is Not One Thing: A Typology of Open-Source Software Sub-Genres
Technical Papers
14:00
30m
Talk
Paired-Text Modeling Techniques for Software Requirement Conflict Detection
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Ayşe Başar Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Savas Yildirim Istanbul Bilgi University Computer Science Department, A: Garima Malik
13:00 - 14:30
Technical Paper: Software Testing and Quality Assurance IITechnical Papers at Hall B
13:00
30m
Talk
OSCAR: A Noise Injection Framework for Concurrent Java Programs
Technical Papers
A: Filipe de Luna , A: João M. Lourenço , A: Jeremy Bradbury Ontario Tech University
13:30
30m
Talk
ContentionBench: A Runtime-Validated Benchmark and Repair Taxonomy for LLM-Based Java Lock Contention Repair
Technical Papers
A: Ankita Mukherjee , A: Ramiro Liscano Ontario Tech University, A: Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
14:00
30m
Talk
LockSense: Automated Lock Contention Detection and AI-Assisted Remediation in Java CI/CD Pipelines
Technical Papers
A: Ankita Mukherjee , A: Ramiro Liscano Ontario Tech University, A: Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
13:00 - 14:30
Technical Paper: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Systems IITechnical Papers at Hall C
13:00
30m
Talk
Knowledge That Must Keep Earning Its Status: A Position on Governed Knowledge Substrates for Institutional AI, with a Measured Lifecycle
Technical Papers
A: Mehdi Adda Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
13:30
30m
Talk
Complexity-Aware Evaluation of LLM Comprehension
Technical Papers
A: Ali Mohammadi Esfahani Carleton University, A: Nafiseh Kahani Carleton University, A: Samuel A. Ajila Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
14:00
30m
Talk
Fine-tuned Generative Language Models for Healthcare Information Extraction
Technical Papers
A: Mucahit Cevik Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, A: Savas Yildirim Istanbul Bilgi University Computer Science Department
13:00 - 14:30
WKS-W5: CyPress: 6th Workshop on Software Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems (Part 1)Workshops at Hall D
13:00 - 14:30
WKS-W6: 1st Workshop on Testing Physical AI Systems (Part 1)Workshops at Hall E
15:00 - 16:30
Technical Paper: AI-Assisted Software Engineering and Developer Practice IIITechnical Papers at Hall A
15:00
30m
Talk
Token Efficient Task Execution via Application Behavior Modeling for Web Agents
Technical Papers
A: Eleni Stroulia University of Alberta, A: Alexandru Ianta
15:30
30m
Talk
Long-Context Diff Risk Scoring with Customizable Tooling for CI Workflows
Technical Papers
A: Ali Sayedsalehi Concordia University, A: Peter Rigby Concordia University, A: Audris Mockus University of Tennessee
16:00
30m
Talk
Evaluating Convention Resilience in LLM-Based Agentic Systems under Memory Disruption and Agent Turnover
Technical Papers
A: Zahra Atf Ontario Tech University, A: Peter Lewis Ontario Tech University
15:00 - 16:30
Technical Paper: Machine Learning Methods and Forecasting IITechnical Papers at Hall B
15:00
30m
Talk
FedChronos: Federated Fine-Tuning of Time-Series Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Commodity Price Forecasting
Technical Papers
A: Amit Sharma , A: Nitin Auluck Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India., A: Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
15:30
30m
Talk
Enhancing Text Variational Autoencoders With Self-Annealing Loss
Technical Papers
16:00
30m
Talk
Beyond Accuracy: Bridging the Reasoning Gap in AI-Assisted Climate Law
Technical Papers
A: Sheersh Kaushik , A: Nelly Bencomo Durham University, A: Katalin Sulyok , A: Petra Minnerop
15:00 - 16:30
WKS-W5: CyPress: 6th Workshop on Software Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems (Part 2)Workshops at Hall D
15:00 - 16:30
WKS-W6: 1st Workshop on Testing Physical AI Systems (Part 2)Workshops at Hall E
16:00 - 16:30
Technical Paper: Software Testing and Quality Assurance II (Additional Paper)Technical Papers at Hall C
16:00
30m
Talk
A Taxonomy of Failing Bug Reproduction Tests on SWT-Bench
Technical Papers
A: Luca Filippelli , A: Hamed Taherkhani , A: Hung Viet Pham York University, A: Hadi Hemmati York University
16:30 - 17:00
Technical Paper: LLMs for Code Generation and Program Repair I (Additional Paper)Technical Papers at Hall A
16:30
30m
Talk
SPARK : Semantic-preserving Prompt Mutation for Code Generation using Consensus-based Verification Framework
Technical Papers
A: Alireza Daghighfarsoodeh York University, A: Chung-Yu Wang York University, A: Luca Filippelli , A: Hamed Taherkhani , A: Hadi Hemmati York University, A: Hung Viet Pham York University
16:30 - 17:00
Technical Paper: Applications of AI in Health, Society and IoT (Additional Paper)Technical Papers at Hall E
16:30
30m
Talk
From Extraction to Completeness: LLM-Based Reconstruction of Epidemiological Compartmental Models
Technical Papers
A: Fatemeh Dabbaghi York University, A: Aaditya Karamchandani York University, A: Marios-Eleftherios Fokaefs
17:00 - 17:15
Closing RemarksKeynotes at Hall B + Hall C