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09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1: Keynote and Research Papers on LLM Code Generation FoundationsPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430 Chair(s): Lili Wei McGill University | ||
09:00 5mDay opening | Opening PROMISE 2026 Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH | ||
09:05 55mTalk | Keynote 1 - The Limits of “Cute” CI/CD Pipelines PROMISE 2026 Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo | ||
10:00 15mTalk | An Empirical Study of Waterfall-style Multi-Agent Workflows for Class-Level Code Generation PROMISE 2026 Wasique Islam Shafin Concordia University, Md Naklha Rafi Concordia University, Zhenhao Li York University, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University | ||
10:15 15mTalk | Secure-Instruct: Prompt, Synthesize, and Fine-Tune for Secure Code Generation PROMISE 2026 Junjie Li Concordia University, Fazle Rabbi Concordia University, Bo Yang Concordia University, Song Wang York University, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2: LLMs for Code Quality and Developer InteractionPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430 Chair(s): Jinqiu Yang Concordia University | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Developer Behavior in Response to LLM-Generated Code Refactoring Suggestions PROMISE 2026 David Schön Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Faiza Amjad Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Tehreem Asif Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Ranim Khojah Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Mazen Mohamad Chalmers | RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Philipp Leitner Chalmers | University of Gothenburg Pre-print | ||
11:15 15mTalk | High Agreement, Shallow Reasoning: A Mixed-Method Study of LLMs in Refactoring Reviews PROMISE 2026 Larisse Amorim Federal University of Minas Gerais, Caique Fortunato Federal University of Minas Gerais, Gustavo Vale Federal University of Minas Gerais, Eduardo Figueiredo Federal University of Minas Gerais | ||
11:30 15mTalk | NGQA: Next-Gen Software Quality Accelerator using AI Agents and LLM Reasoning PROMISE 2026 | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Enforcing LLMs to Use Software Design Patterns: A Case of Singleton PROMISE 2026 Viktor Kjellberg Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Miroslaw Staron University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3: Keynote and Research Papers on Code Understanding and ReasoningPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430 Chair(s): Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH | ||
14:00 60mTalk | Keynote 2 - Rethinking Reliability for Software Engineering Agents PROMISE 2026 Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University | ||
15:00 15mPaper | Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering PROMISE 2026 Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew Virginia Tech, Hunter Leary Virginia Tech, Swanand Vaishampayan Virginia Tech, Chris Brown Virginia Tech Pre-print | ||
15:15 15mTalk | Do LLMs Learn Structure or Names? A Study on the Robustness of Design-Pattern Detection to Identifier Shifts PROMISE 2026 | ||
16:00 - 18:00 | Session 4: Security, Trust, and Verification of LLM-Generated CodePROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430 Chair(s): Zhijie Wang Concordia University | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Model-Driven Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems via AADL and LLMs PROMISE 2026 | ||
16:15 15mTalk | MAS-SRE: A Multi-Agent System for Security Requirements Engineering PROMISE 2026 Savvas Mantzouranidis Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology | ||
16:30 15mTalk | Detecting Malicious Intents in Smart Contracts with Pre-trained Programming Language Models PROMISE 2026 Youwei Huang Independent Researcher, Jianwen Li Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, Sen Fang North Carolina State University, Yao Li Macau University of Science and Technology, Peng Yang Institute of Intelligent Computing Technology, Suzhou, CAS, Bin Hu Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
16:45 10mTalk | Probabilistic Evidence Aggregation for Source Code Authorship Verification: An Ongoing Set-Based Approach PROMISE 2026 | ||
16:55 5mDay closing | Closing PROMISE 2026 Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH | ||