Conference Program

09:00– 10:00

Registration and Openning

10:00– 11:00

Keynote address

Backpropagating from Customer Success: The Case of Enterprise Knowledge Bases

Prof. Fabio Casati

Main Hall Zoom link to be announced

11:00– 11:30

Morning coffee break

11:30– 13:00

Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Smart Request: An Agentic LLM Framework for Interactive Requirement Engineering and Governance-Compliant Backlog Generation Mira Emektar, Fatih M. Harmancõ and Ali Aktolun · 20 min
2. A Closed-Loop Agentic Revenue Management System for Self-Storage: Architecture, Behavioral Churn Prediction, and Dynamic Pricing Bellur Srikar and Warren Lieberman · 20 min
3. Designing Explanation Artifacts for LLM-Based Question Answering in Education: Supporting Students' Provenance Understanding and Verification of Generated Answers Grzegorz Meller, Maxwell Szymanski, Monique Snoeck, Tinne De Laet and Katrien Verbert · 20 min
4. An LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Natural Language Interrogation and Exploitation of Smart City Services Luca Capece, Paolo Nesi and Gianni Pantaleo · 20 min

13:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:30

Agentic AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. CoPlan: A Trustworthy Co-Intelligence Interface for Care Planning through Role-Based Contestable Argument Graphs Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen, HŽlne Fournier, Piper Jackson, Makoto Itoh, Shannon Freeman, RenŽ Richard and Hung Cao · 20 min
2. RabbitQA: A Multi-Agentic AI Platform for Digital Product Quality and Autonomous Risk Discovery Mira Emektar, Fatih M. Harmancõ and Ali Aktolun · 20 min
3. Towards Reliable Multi-Agent Unit Test Generation through Verification and Iterative Refinement Akos Czere, Ivan Polasek, Lukas Radosky and Ingo Zinnikus · 20 min
4. Agentic Autonomous Pedestrians: Integrating Reactive Kinematics with Generative Social Reasoning Brady Zhou, Julia Gu and Demetri Terzopoulos · 15 min

15:30– 16:00

Afternoon coffee break

16:00– 17:30

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Ed-AID: Education in an AI-Dominated World Sanjeev Sondur and Krishna Kant · 20 min
2. BayanLM: Morphological Priors and Embedding Enrichment for Character-Level Arabic Diacritization Fatiha Dahmani, Farida Medjani, Iyad Kouloughli and Tahar Kezai · 20 min
3. In The Eyes Of: An Offline-First System for Geolocalized Expert Narration in Heritage Interpretation Luis Borunda, Javier Argota Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Micah Wissman, Kristin Lamoreaux, Meng Zhu, Elena Marchiori, Adine Gavazzi and Lorenzo Cantoni · 20 min

09:00– 10:00

registration

10:00– 11:00

Keynote address

Keynote

Room to be announced Zoom link to be announced

11:00– 11:30

Morning coffee break

11:30– 13:00

Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Spec-Driven Compilation, Hierarchical Routing, and Coverage Refusal for a Deployed Multi-Tool MCP Assistant in Fire & Rescue Services Christophe Guyeux · 20 min
2. The Way We Prompt, the Way We Depend: Motivation, Interaction Styles, and Trust as Predictors of LLM Dependency Sameha Alshakhsi, Ala Yankouskaya, Dena Al-Thani and Raian Ali · 20 min
3. AquiLLM: An Architecture for Supporting Tacit Knowledge Capture in Research Groups Jack Stark, Srinath Saikrishnan, Vikram Seenivasan, Bernie Boscoe, Andrew Lizarraga and Tuan Do · 20 min

13:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:30

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. AI Application Operations - A Socio-Technical Framework for Data-driven Organizations Daniel SvŠrdh Jšnsson, Mattias Tiger, Stefan Ekberg, Daniel Jakobsson, Mattias Jonhede and Fredrik Viksten · 20 min
2. FT-DSL: Resilient Dynamic Split Learning with Adaptive Checkpointing Md Nahid Sultan, S M Jannatul Nayeem, Tania Afroz Toma and Eui-Nam Huh · 20 min
3. Interpretable, Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Early Refrigerant Leak Mitigation in Commercial HVAC Systems John Sipple, Trevor Sodorff, Andrea Silvestri, Annie Mitchell, Warren Nielson and Abdou Youssef · 20 min
4. Exploring Implicit Human Social Relationships through CNN-Based Algorithms Reihaneh Tarlani, Magnus Johnsson and Arezoo Sarkheyli-HŠgele · 20 min

15:30– 16:00

Afternoon coffee break

16:00– 17:30

Cross-track Spotlight: Federated Learning / Agentic AI / Explainable AI (XAI) & Transparency / Trustworthy, Responsible & Sustainable AI

Room A Zoom link to be announced onsite

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Red-Teaming an Enterprise RAG System: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Security, Fairness, and Coherence Alessandro G. Buda and Giuseppe Primiero · 20 min
2. Addressing the Cold-Start Problem in Clinical Vocabulary Mapping through Federated Analytics Diego Garc’a-Gil, Benjamin Atkinson, James Mitchell-White, Benjamin Partridge, Philip Quinlan and Grazziela Figueredo · 20 min
3. Attitudes towards AI and the Demand for eXplainable AI: Does Spirituality Matter? Muaadh Noman, Mohammad Mominur Rahman, Ala Yankouskaya and Raian Ali · 20 min
4. ShaperAI: A Governed Agentic Architecture for Enterprise Digital Cost Management Paolo Giorgini, Damiano Duranti, Luca Zanolo, Lorenzo Dossi, Giorgio Dossi, Daniele Giovanella, Andrea Ghizzoni and Roberto Lucin · 20 min

09:00– 10:00

Registration

10:00– 11:00

Keynote address

Keynote

Room to be announced Zoom link to be announced

11:00– 11:30

Morning coffee break

11:30– 13:00

Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. DeepContext: Stateful Real-Time Detection of Multi-Turn Adversarial Intent Drift in LLMs Justin Albrethsen, Yash Datta, Kunal Kumar and Sharath Rajasekar · 20 min
2. Robust Function Calling for LLM Agents Under Interface Drift Aniruddha Chattopadhyay, Kanishka Halder and Partha Sarathi Roy · 20 min
3. Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Customer Service Email Replies Jim Ahlstrand, Martin Boldt, Anton Borg and HŒkan Grahn · 20 min
4. No Universal Recipe for QLoRA: Multi-Seed Evidence for Model-Specific Precision Effects in Efficient LLM Adaptation Ernest Kiprop, Lawrence Nderu and Mwangi Karanja · 20 min

11:30– 13:00

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Zoom Room 2 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Early Industry Adoption of the Model Context Protocol: An Empirical Study Nikolaos Delis, Helena Holmstršm Olsson and Jan Bosch · 20 min
2. SimA-MCU: Softmax-Free Attention on Microcontrollers for Real-Time EEG Decoding Pedro Piovesan, Kylian Preuss, Matteo Jocal, A•da Deng, Lucas Grativol and Mathieu LŽonardon · 20 min
3. Jenius Agent: Towards Experience-Driven Accuracy Optimization in Real-World Scenarios Defei Xia · 20 min
4. State of the Art in Legal Question Answering Systems Chourouq Batiche and Amine Mammasse · 20 min

13:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:30

Agentic AI

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Designing Intelligent Enterprise Agents: A Capability-Aligned Multi-Agent Architecture John Devadoss · 20 min
2. Emotion-Centred Forensic Reasoning for Zero-Shot DeepFake Video Detection Rebecca Mobbs, Vasileios Argyriou and Dimitrios Makris · 20 min
3. KPIs for Productionizing AI and Agentic AI Solutions: An Archetype-Matched Measurement Discipline Gowtham Manivannan · 20 min

14:00– 15:30

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Zoom Room 2 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. FDA-Tokenizer: A Factorized Full-Diacritic-Aware Tokenization Framework for Classical Arabic Iyad Kouloughli, Fatiha Dahmani, Dhia Eddine Ayachi and Tahar Kezai · 20 min
2. Investigating Loss Functions for Long-Tail Mental-Health Topic Classification in Bangla Empathetic Conversations Fouzia Nigar Sultana, Md. Tariquzzaman, Md. Kamrul Hasan and Hasan Mahmud · 20 min
3. Gabor Erdelyi, Olivia Erdelyi and Andreas W. Kempa-Liehr Data Fusion Challenges Privacy: What Can Privacy Regulation Do? · 20 min
4. Muhammad Farzand and Ferdi Sonmez Efficient Compression of Large Language Models Through Structured and Unstructured Pruning: A Comparative Evaluation on Benchmark NLP Tasks · 20 min

15:30– 16:00

Afternoon coffee break

16:00– 17:30

AI Systems, Hardware & Edge/Cloud Infrastructures

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Resolving Intent-Content Conßict in Retrieval: An Emotion-Aware Knowledge Graph Framework Prashant Shah and Ali Alwan · 20 min
2. Per-Head Power and Energy Profiling of a Multi-Task HydraNet on Edge Devices Zhen Xian Lee, Marco Wagner, Cheng Yee Low and Uwe Gleiter · 20 min
3. FreeMult: A Multiplier-Free FPGA Accelerator for CNNs Yousef Dessouki and Marco Wagner · 20 min

16:00– 17:30

Cross-track Spotlight: Federated Learning / Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI / Deep Learning Architectures & Representation Learning / Explainable AI (XAI) & Transparency

Zoom Room 2 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. A gender perspective on explainable predictive modeling of self-perceived health in institutionalized older adults with visual disabilities Vanessa Zorrilla-Mu–oz, Ines Juaristi, Manuel Cuerno, Purificacion Heras-Gonzalez, Maria Silveria Agullo-Tomas, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, Jose Maria Sabater-Navarro and Gema Martinez-Navarrete · 20 min
2. BW-FedSMU: Adaptive Bit-Rate Compression for Heterogeneous Federated Learning Tania Afroz Toma, Md Nahid Sultan and Eui-Nam Huh · 20 min
3. RAG-NIMBF: A Non-Invasive, Modular Benchmarking Framework for Automated RAG Configuration Analysis Niclas Hart and Nicolas Weeger · 20 min
4. Speak for Themselves or Spoken About: Unequal Representational Autonomy in Text-to-Image Depictions of Material Culture Yan Xiao · 20 min

09:00– 10:00

Registration

10:00– 11:00

Keynote address

Keynote

TBD

Main Hall Zoom link to be announced

11:00– 11:30

Morning coffee break

11:30– 13:00

Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM Generation V Subrahmanya Raghu Ram Kishore Parupudi, Harshavardhan Ponnada, Aditi Kaushal, Sirinagasanyasa Parupudi, Saiteja Dasari and Sahiti Bulusu · 20 min
2. Generative AI and the Civilisation of Operational Dependence Ð Towards a Semiotics of Next-Generation AI Systems Ð Abdurrahman GŸlbeyaz · 20 min
3. StudyBuddy: Designing an LLM-Powered Reading Support System for Dyslexic University Students Pilar Carrera Monterde, Grzegorz Meller, Tine Keulemans and Tinne De Laet · 20 min
4. Toward Privacy-by-Design for LLM Applications for Children Diana Addae, Diana Rogachova, Chen Zhou, Nafiseh Kahani and Masoud Barati · 20 min

11:30– 13:00

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Zoom Room 2 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Cross Agent Context Anchoring Shiladitya Narania · 20 min
2. Plurification in/of language technology. The integration of ÔcultureÕ in next-generation AI Gertraud Koch and Fausto Giunchiglia · 20 min
3. Estimating Dialogue Interaction Quality: Multi-Turn Linguistic Indicators Across Heterogeneous Corpora Renia Lopez-Ozieblo, Paolo Mengoni, Kristen Li, Daniel Shen and Paulina Pui Yun Wong · 20 min
4. Confidence Indicators and Trust Calibration in AI-Assisted Learning: A Study Across Educational Experience Levels Mubtasim Kamal Dihan, Tazrian Zaman Tushti, Md Atiq Mahbub and Hasan Mahmud · 20 min

13:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:30

Trustworthy, Responsible & Sustainable AI

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Toward Trustworthy and Explainable AI-Assisted Cybersecurity for Everyday Users Igor Bernik · 20 min
2. When fairness metrics fail: An utility-based perspective Thorsten Schmidt and Tolulope Fadina · 20 min
3. Fairness in Healthcare AI State-of-the-Art Techniques, Metrics and Challenges Sadia Zaib, Saif Ur Rehman Khan and Muhammad Waqar Aslam · 20 min
4. Governance-Aware Federated Learning for Multi-Agent AI Systems: A Policy-Driven Framework for Trustworthy Collaborative AI Kiranmayee Janardhan, Karthick S, Madhusmita Panda, Bharathi Vokkaliga Ganesh and Syed Ahmed · 20 min

14:00– 15:30

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Zoom Room 2 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. BiasGuard: Real-Time Bias Detection and Mitigation in AI Responses Fatemeh Mirshafiee and Nafiseh Kahani · 20 min
2. Mohammad Zahangir Alam, Mahdi H. Miraz, Elhan Ayath, Sharmin Sultana and Nowshad Amin An Explainable Agentic RAG Framework for Zero-Shot Phishing and Web Attack Detection · 20 min
3. Khitam Qadri, Moamin Abughazala, Ghulam Mudassir, Jehad Hamamreh and Henry Muccini Architecture-Grounded Data Contract Viewpoint for Data Governance in Data-Intensive Systems · 20 min
4. Ashwaq Khan The LUMI Visibility Index (LVI): A Composite Framework for Measuring Brand Representation Across Frontier Generative AI Systems · 20 min

15:30– 16:00

Afternoon coffee break

16:00– 17:30

Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI

Zoom Room 1 Zoom link to be announced online

Session chair: To be confirmed

1. Intelligent Early Detection of Type 2 Diabetes: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Feature Selection Strategies Mirna Atalla, Yara Qafesheh, Danya Salameh and Huthaifa Ashqar · 20 min
2. Predictive Conversation Hypergraph: Certified Answer Reuse, Intent Mapping Error Analysis, and Maintenance in Regulated Conversational AI Cosimo Spera · 20 min
3. Communication Interval and Source Specific Stability Patterns in FedAvg-DDQN under MDP Level Heterogeneity Meiying Yu and Eui-Nam Huh · 20 min
4. Search for Z/2 eigenfunctions on the sphere using machine learning Willem Adriaan Salm and Andriy Haydys · 20 min