CAIN 2025 - Doctoral Symposium

This year, CAIN will again include a Doctoral Symposium, providing students with the opportunity to receive rich feedback on their PhD work related to the CAIN themes of Software Engineering applied to AI and Data Science. Students may submit single-author abstracts of early-stage ideas or late-stage work for review by the Doctoral Symposium Committee.

Submissions

All submissions should be accompanied by an endorsement letter from their advisor, including the assessment of the current status of the research and an expected date for the completion of the dissertation. The letter and submission describing the student’s research should be uploaded to Hotcrp.

For the early PhD category, the submissions should be 2 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions should clearly state:

the problem to be solved in the student’s research (justify why this problem is important and make clear that previous research and related work has not yet solved that problem),
the research hypothesis or claim,
the expected contributions of the research,
the plan for evaluating the contribution and presenting credible evidence of the results to the community.

For the late PhD category, the submissions should be 4 pages long, with one additional page permitted for references only. The submissions should include the bulleted items above, as well as:

a description of the results achieved so far, and
the planned timeline for completion Submissions must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).

Note on Scope: Submissions that report strictly on data science or model development without any connection to software engineering and AI-enabled systems will be desk-rejected. There are many venues for those papers where authors would get much more valuable and relevant feedback. Additional information on CAIN scope can be found here.

Accepted submissions will be presented at the main conference via a poster and/or short presentation, depending on availability. We will host a dedicated session for students with accepted submissions to give a more detailed presentation and receive expert feedback. The submissions may, at the review committee’s discretion, be published in the CAIN 2025 proceedings. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2025. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchase of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.

Authors of all accepted submissions are required to register for the CAIN 2025 conference.

Accepted Papers

	Title
	A Holistic Framework for Evolving AI-based Systems Doctoral Symposium Merel Veracx
	A Metrics-Oriented Architectural Model to Characterize Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Renato Cordeiro Ferreira
	Assessing and Enhancing the Robustness of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems Through Chaos Engineering. Doctoral Symposium Joshua Segun Owotogbe
	CoCo Challenges in ML Engineering Teams: How to Collaboratively Build ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Aidin Azamnouri
	Designing ML-Enabled Software Systems with ML Model Composition: A Green AI Perspective Doctoral Symposium Rumbidzai Chitakunye
	Identification and Optimization of Redundant Code Using Large Language Models Doctoral Symposium Shamse Tasnim Cynthia
	Model-Based Verification for AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems through Guided Falsification of Temporal Logic Properties Doctoral Symposium Hadiza Yusuf
	Optimizing Data Analytics Workflows through User-driven Experimentation: Progress and Updates Doctoral Symposium Keerthiga Rajenthiram
	Systematic Testing of Security-Related Defects in LLM-Based Applications Doctoral Symposium Hasan Kaplan
	Towards an Adoption Framework to Foster Trust in AI-Assisted Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium Marvin Muñoz Barón
	Towards a Privacy-by-Design Framework for ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Yorick Sens

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Sun 27 Apr
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09:00 - 10:30	Opening / Keynote 1Research and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

09:00 30m Day opening		Opening Research and Experience Papers
09:30 60m Keynote		Is Prompt Engineering? Research and Experience Papers Jeremy Barnes ServiceNow

11:00 - 12:30	Engineering AI systems with LLMsResearch and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

11:00 15m Talk		Rule-Based Assessment of Reinforcement Learning Practices Using Large Language ModelsDistinguished paper Award Candidate Research and Experience Papers Evangelos Ntentos University of Vienna, Stephen John Warnett University of Vienna, Uwe Zdun University of Vienna
11:15 10m Talk		Designing and implementing LLM guardrails components in production environments Research and Experience Papers Mateus Devino IBM, Evaline Ju IBM, Paulo Marques Caldeira Junior IBM
11:25 15m Talk		Themes of Building LLM-based Applications for Production: A Practitioner's View Research and Experience Papers Alina Mailach Leipzig University, Sebastian Simon Leipzig University, Johannes Dorn Leipzig University, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University Pre-print
11:40 15m Talk		InsightAI: Root Cause Analysis in Large Hierarchical Log Files with Private Data Using Large Language Models Research and Experience Papers Maryam Ekhlasi Polytechnique Montreal, Anurag Prakash Ciena, Michel Dagenais Polytechnique Montréal, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal
11:55 10m Talk		Developing Multi-Agent LLM Applications through Continuous Human-LLM Co-Programming Research and Experience Papers Hui Song SINTEF Digital, Arda Goknil SINTEF Digital, Xiaojun Jiang Oslo University Hospital, Espen Melum Oslo University Hospital, Hyunwhan Joe Seoul National University, Caterina Gazzotti University of Modena, Valerio Frascolla Intel, Adela Nedisan Videsjorden SINTEF, Phu Nguyen SINTEF
12:05 25m Other		Discussion Research and Experience Papers

14:00 - 15:30	Architecting and Testing AI SystemsResearch and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions

14:00 15m Talk		How Do Model Export Formats Impact the Development of ML-Enabled Systems? A Case Study on Model IntegrationDistinguished paper Award Candidate Research and Experience Papers Shreyas Kumar Parida ETH Zurich, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pre-print
14:15 15m Talk		RAGProbe: Breaking RAG Pipelines with Evaluation ScenariosDistinguished paper Award Candidate Research and Experience Papers Shangeetha Sivasothy Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Scott Barnett Deakin University, Australia, Stefanus Kurniawan Deakin University, Zafaryab Rasool Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Rajesh Vasa Deakin University, Australia
14:30 15m Talk		On-Device or Remote? On the Energy Efficiency of Fetching LLM-Generated Content Research and Experience Papers Vince Nguyen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hieu Huynh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vidya Dhopate Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Anusha Annengala Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hiba Bouhlal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gian Luca Scoccia Gran Sasso Science Institute, Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Vincenzo Stoico Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pre-print Media Attached
14:45 10m Talk		LoCoML: A Framework for Real-World ML Inference Pipelines Research and Experience Papers Kritin Maddireddy IIIT Hyderabad, Santhosh Kotekal Methukula IIIT Hyderabad, Chandrasekar S IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
14:55 10m Talk		Towards Continuous Experiment-driven MLOps Research and Experience Papers Keerthiga Rajenthiram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Milad Abdullah Charles University, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Petr Hnětynka Charles University, Tomas Bures Charles University, Czech Republic, Gerard Pons Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Besim Bilalli Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Anna Queralt Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
15:05 25m Other		Discussion Research and Experience Papers

16:00 - 17:30	Doctoral Symposium TalksDoctoral Symposium / Research and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg

16:00 5m Talk		Optimizing Data Analytics Workflows through User-driven Experimentation: Progress and Updates Doctoral Symposium Keerthiga Rajenthiram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
16:05 5m Talk		CoCo Challenges in ML Engineering Teams: How to Collaboratively Build ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Aidin Azamnouri Technical University of Munich
16:10 5m Talk		Towards a Privacy-by-Design Framework for ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Yorick Sens Ruhr University Bochum
16:15 5m Talk		Towards an Adoption Framework to Foster Trust in AI-Assisted Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium Marvin Muñoz Barón Technical University of Munich
16:20 5m Talk		A Holistic Framework for Evolving AI-based Systems Doctoral Symposium Merel Veracx Fontys University of Applied Sciences
16:25 5m Talk		Assessing and Enhancing the Robustness of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems Through Chaos Engineering. Doctoral Symposium Joshua Segun Owotogbe JADS/Tilburg University
16:30 5m Talk		Designing ML-Enabled Software Systems with ML Model Composition: A Green AI Perspective Doctoral Symposium Rumbidzai Chitakunye Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
16:35 5m Talk		A Metrics-Oriented Architectural Model to Characterize Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Renato Cordeiro Ferreira University of São Paulo
16:40 5m Talk		Identification and Optimization of Redundant Code Using Large Language Models Doctoral Symposium Shamse Tasnim Cynthia University of Saskatchewan
16:45 5m Talk		Systematic Testing of Security-Related Defects in LLM-Based Applications Doctoral Symposium Hasan Kaplan Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Tilburg University
16:50 5m Talk		Model-Based Verification for AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems through Guided Falsification of Temporal Logic Properties Doctoral Symposium Hadiza Yusuf University of Michigan - Dearborn
16:55 35m Other		Open SC meeting Research and Experience Papers

Mon 28 Apr
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09:00 - 10:00	Keynote 2Research and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy

09:00 60m Keynote		Beyond Machine Learning and Foundation Models: A Research Roadmap for Multi-Paradigm AI Engineering Research and Experience Papers Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

10:00 - 10:30	Lightning talksPosters / Research and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Scott Barnett Deakin University, Australia

10:00 3m Poster		All You Need is an AI Platform: A Proposal for a Complete Reference Architecture Posters Benjamin Weigell University of Augsburg, Fabian Stieler University of Augsburg, Bernhard Bauer University of Augsburg
10:03 3m Poster		Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Safety and Trustworthiness in Cyber-Physical Systems Posters Katherine R. Dearstyne University of Notre Dame, Pedro Alarcon Granadeno University of Notre Dame, Theodore Chambers University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
10:06 3m Poster		Finding Trojan Triggers in Code LLMs: An Occlusion-based Human-in-the-loop Approach Posters Aftab Hussain Texas A&M University, College Station, Rafiqul Rabin UL Research Institutes, Toufique Ahmed IBM Research, Amin Alipour University of Houston, Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Stephen Huang University of Houston Pre-print
10:09 3m Poster		Navigating the Shift: Architectural Transformations and Emerging Verification Demands in AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems Posters Hadiza Yusuf University of Michigan - Dearborn, Khouloud Gaaloul University of Michigan - Dearborn
10:12 3m Poster		Random Perturbation Attacks on LLMs for Code Generation Posters Qiulu Peng Carnegie Mellon University, Chi Zhang , Ravi Mangal Colorado State University, Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University; NASA Ames, Limin Jia Carnegie Mellon University
10:15 3m Poster		Safeguarding LLM-Applications: Specify or Train? Posters Hala Abdelkader Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University, Australia, Sankhya Singh Deakin University, Irini Logothetis Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, Priya Rani RMIT University, Rajesh Vasa Deakin University, Australia, Jean-Guy Schneider Monash University
10:18 3m Poster		Task decomposition and RAG as Design Patterns for LLM-based Systems Posters Orlando Marquez Ayala ServiceNow

	10:30 - 11:00	CAIN Poster-Morning breakResearch and Experience Papers at Canada Hall 3 Poster Area

11:00 - 12:30	Trustworthy AI systemsResearch and Experience Papers / Industry Talks at 208 Chair(s): Tim Menzies North Carolina State University

11:00 15m Talk		ImageBiTe: A Framework for Evaluating Representational Harms in Text-to-Image Models Research and Experience Papers Sergio Morales Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Robert Clarisó Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Jordi Cabot Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
11:15 10m Talk		Approach Towards Semi-Automated Certification for Low Criticality ML-Enabled Airborne Applications Research and Experience Papers Chandrasekar S IIIT Hyderabad, Vyakhya Gupta IIIT Hyderabad, Prakhar Jain IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
11:25 10m Talk		From Hazard Identification to Control Design: Proactive and AI-Supported Safety Engineering for ML-powered Systems Research and Experience Papers Yining Hong Carnegie Mellon University, Christopher Timperley , Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
11:35 15m Talk		Bringing Machine Learning Models Beyond the Experimental Stage with Explainable AI Research and Experience Papers Niels With Mikkelsen Jyske Bank, Lasse Pedersen Jyske Bank, Mansoor Hussain Jyske Bank, Victor Foged Deloitte, Ekkart Kindler Technical University of Denmark
11:50 12m Talk		Is Generated Images Suitable for Weakness Detection? Industry Talks Haruki Yokoyama Fujitsu Limited, Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics
12:02 12m Talk		Challenges in AI Projects for Machinery and Plant Engineering Industry Talks Richard Nordsiek XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions, Manish Bhandari XITASO GmbH IT and Software Solutions
12:14 16m Other		Discussion Research and Experience Papers

11:00 - 12:30	Doctoral Symposium 1 (Detailed Presentation)Doctoral Symposium / Research and Experience Papers at 212

11:00 20m Talk		Optimizing Data Analytics Workflows through User-driven Experimentation: Progress and Updates Doctoral Symposium Keerthiga Rajenthiram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:20 20m Talk		CoCo Challenges in ML Engineering Teams: How to Collaboratively Build ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Aidin Azamnouri Technical University of Munich
11:40 20m Talk		Towards a Privacy-by-Design Framework for ML-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Yorick Sens Ruhr University Bochum
12:00 20m Talk		Towards an Adoption Framework to Foster Trust in AI-Assisted Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium Marvin Muñoz Barón Technical University of Munich

	12:30 - 13:00	CAIN Poster-LunchtimeResearch and Experience Papers at Canada Hall 3 Poster Area

14:00 - 15:30	Quality Assurance for AI systemsResearch and Experience Papers at 208 Chair(s): Eduardo Santana de Almeida Federal University of Bahia

14:00 10m Talk		Towards a Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Streamlined Change Management in AI Systems Development Research and Experience Papers Razan Abualsaud IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse
14:10 15m Talk		An AI-driven Requirements Engineering Framework Tailored for Evaluating AI-Based Software Research and Experience Papers Hamed Barzamini , Fatemeh Nazaritiji Northern Illinois University, Annalise Brockmann Northern Illinois University, Hasan Ferdowsi Northern Illinois university, Mona Rahimi Northern Illinois University
14:25 15m Talk		MLScent: A tool for Anti-pattern detection in ML projects Research and Experience Papers Karthik Shivashankar University of Oslo, Antonio Martini University of Oslo
14:40 15m Talk		Debugging and Runtime Analysis of Neural Networks with VLMs (A Case Study)Distinguished paper Award Candidate Research and Experience Papers Boyue Caroline Hu University of Toronto, Divya Gopinath KBR; NASA Ames, Ravi Mangal Colorado State University, Nina Narodytska VMware Research, Corina S. Păsăreanu Carnegie Mellon University, Susmit Jha SRI
14:55 15m Talk		Investigating Issues that Lead to Code Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems Research and Experience Papers Rodrigo Ximenes Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Antonio Pedro Santos Alves Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Tatiana Escovedo Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Pre-print
15:10 10m Talk		Addressing Quality Challenges in Deep Learning: The Role of MLOps and Domain Knowledge Research and Experience Papers Santiago del Rey Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya - Barcelona Tech, Adrià Medina Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Silverio Martínez-Fernández UPC-BarcelonaTech Pre-print
15:20 10m Other		Discussion Research and Experience Papers

14:00 - 15:30	Doctoral Symposium 2 (Detailed Presentation)Doctoral Symposium / Research and Experience Papers at 212

14:00 20m Talk		A Holistic Framework for Evolving AI-based Systems Doctoral Symposium Merel Veracx Fontys University of Applied Sciences
14:20 20m Talk		Assessing and Enhancing the Robustness of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems Through Chaos Engineering. Doctoral Symposium Joshua Segun Owotogbe JADS/Tilburg University
14:40 20m Talk		Designing ML-Enabled Software Systems with ML Model Composition: A Green AI Perspective Doctoral Symposium Rumbidzai Chitakunye Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15:00 20m Talk		A Metrics-Oriented Architectural Model to Characterize Complexity on Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Doctoral Symposium Renato Cordeiro Ferreira University of São Paulo

16:00 - 17:30	Generative Model EngineeringResearch and Experience Papers / Industry Talks at 208 Chair(s): Manel Abdellatif École de Technologie Supérieure

16:00 15m Talk		DDPT: Diffusion Driven Prompt Tuning for Large Language Model Code Generation Research and Experience Papers Jinyang Li The University of Adelaide, Sangwon Hyun CREST, University of Adelaide, Muhammad Ali Babar School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide
16:15 15m Talk		Engineering LLM Powered Multi-agent Framework for Autonomous CloudOpsDistinguished paper Award Candidate Research and Experience Papers Kannan Parthasarathy MontyCloud, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad, Rudra Dhar SERC, IIIT Hyderabad, India, Venkat Krishnamachari MontyCloud, Adyansh Kakran International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Sreemaee Akshathala IIIT Hyderabad, Shrikara Arun IIIT Hyderabad, Amey Karan IIIT Hyderabad, Basil Muhammed MontyCloud, Sumant Dubey MontyCloud, Mohan Veerubhotla MontyCloud
16:30 15m Talk		Generating and Verifying Synthetic Datasets with Requirements Engineering Research and Experience Papers Lynn Vonderhaar Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Timothy Elvira Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Omar Ochoa Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Pre-print
16:45 15m Talk		LLM-Based Safety Case Generation for Baidu Apollo: Are We There Yet? Research and Experience Papers Oluwafemi Odu York University, Alvine Boaye Belle York University, Song Wang York University
17:00 12m Talk		SqPal - text to SQL GenAI tool for PayPal Industry Talks Dan Liyanage PayPal, Mahshid Moha PayPal, Sandy Suresh PayPal
17:12 18m Other		Discussion Research and Experience Papers

16:00 - 17:30	Doctoral Symposium 3 (Detailed Presentation)Doctoral Symposium / Research and Experience Papers at 212

16:00 20m Talk		Identification and Optimization of Redundant Code Using Large Language Models Doctoral Symposium Shamse Tasnim Cynthia University of Saskatchewan
16:20 20m Talk		Systematic Testing of Security-Related Defects in LLM-Based Applications Doctoral Symposium Hasan Kaplan Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Tilburg University
16:40 20m Talk		Model-Based Verification for AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems through Guided Falsification of Temporal Logic Properties Doctoral Symposium Hadiza Yusuf University of Michigan - Dearborn

17:30 - 17:45	CAIN ClosingResearch and Experience Papers at 208

17:30 15m Talk		Closing Research and Experience Papers

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Accepted Papers

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Accepted Talks

Goetz BotterweckDoctoral Symposium Co-Chair

Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick

Ireland

Jennifer HorkoffDoctoral Symposium Co-Chair

Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg

Sweden

Sallam Abualhaija

University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Justus Bogner

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Netherlands

Marsha Chechik

University of Toronto

Canada

Jane Cleland-Huang

University of Notre Dame

United States

Xavier Franch

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Spain

Foutse Khomh

Polytechnique Montréal

Canada

Lucy Ellen Lwakatare

University of Helsinki

Finland

Emad Shihab

Concordia University, Montreal

Canada

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