Conference Program

September 23 – 24, 2026 • Neapolis University Pafos • Paphos, Cyprus

Time zone in Cyprus (GMT+3)

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Day 1 — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

08:00–10:00	Registration
10:00–10:30	Opening Ceremony — Welcome Address Conference Chairs / Representative of Neapolis University Pafos Dr. Elena Kakoulli — Co-Chair Prof. Ladjel Bellatreche — Co-Chair
10:30–11:30	Keynote Speech 1 Speaker: Dr. Herodotos Herodotou Topic: Hyper-Distributed Intelligence in the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum
11:30–12:00	Coffee Break
Session 1 — Security, Trust, and Compliance Session Chair: Dr. Iakovos Ioannou
12:00–12:20	Security Solution Refinement Trees: Structuring Security Knowledge Through Multi-Level Refinement Robin Theveniaut, Jason Jaskolka, and Brahim Hamid
12:20–12:40	SecureXAI-ITS: A Security- and Explainability-by-Design Reference Architecture for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems Elena Kakoulli and Salomi Evripidou
12:40–13:00	A Model Management Perspective on Security Compliance-by-Design Emery Lekien, Brahim Hamid, Christophe Villeneuve, and Cécile Bazot
13:00–14:30	Lunch
Session 2 — Data Quality and Trustworthy AI Session Chair: Dr. Loukia Taxitari
14:30–14:50	Pucktrick: a Strategy Driven Data Corruption Library for Sensitivity Analysis Fariha Maqbool and Andrea Maurino
14:50–15:10	Score for Triage, Gate for Release: When Dataset Reliability Predicts Model Performance Jorge Martinez-Gil, Rudolf Ramler, Francois Picard, Leïla Belmerhnia, and Georgios Spathoulas
15:10–15:30	FUTURE: Framework for Uncertainty-aware and Trustworthy Unified Reasoning in Enabled CPS Selima Moalla and Malika Ben Khalifa
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
Session 3 — AI, LLMs, and Knowledge Representation Session Chair: Dr. Iakovos Ioannou
16:00–16:20	Graph Neural Networks with Fuzzy Knowledge Representation for Health Assessment Ahlem Rhayem, Ishak Riali, and Diana Peters
16:20–16:40	An Adaptive Multi-Agent Architecture with Generative AI for English Language Learning Asma Sraouia, Lamia Berkani, and Afaf Farah Zenaini
16:40–17:00	AI-RAW: A Constraint-Checked Evidence Graph Metamodel for AI-Resilient Assessment Design Savvas Chatzichristofis, Christiana Koundourou, Marilena Mousoulidou, and Loukia Taxitari

Day 2 — Thursday, September 24, 2026

08:30–10:00	Registration
10:00–11:00	Keynote Speech 2 Speaker: Prof. Marjan Mernik Topic: From Grammar Inference to Semantic Inference of Domain-Specific Languages
11:00–11:30	Coffee Break
Session 4 — Data Management, Cloud-Edge Systems, and Analytics Session Chairs: Dr. Salomi Evripidou & Dr. Anastasios Antoniades
11:30–11:50	Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatio-Textual Similarity Join with IR-trees in Main Memory Raúl García-Muñoz, Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, and Michael Vassilakopoulos
11:50–12:10	KWEST: A Kubernetes Workload Evaluation and Scheduling Testbed for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum Marios Touloupou, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Matthew Paraskeva, Jacopo Castellini, Pablo Strasser, Alexandros Kalousis, and Herodotos Herodotou
12:10–12:30	A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Online Reviews of Pediatric Care: A Case Study in Kyoto, Japan Walalawela Kaveesha Kavindi, Tai Dinh, and Wuyi Yue
12:30–12:50	A UAV-Based Defect Detection and Localization Tool for Photovoltaic Panel Inspection Apostolos Apostolou, Eleftherios G. Vourkos, Rafaela A. Agathokleous, Andreas S. Panayides, and Eftychios G. Christoforou
13:00–14:30	Lunch
Session 5 — Intelligent Systems and Decision Support Session Chairs: Dr. Michael Georgiades & Dr. Panikos Heracleous
14:30–14:50	AI-in-the-Loop Software Engineering: Towards Adaptive and Symbiotic Development Workflows Sarra Abidi, Maha Mallek, Akrem Khemiri, and Emna Rbii
14:50–15:10	Learning Myopic Decision Policies for Restless Bandits with Unknown Markovian Dynamics Ori Barak, Tomer Gafni, Shai Ginzach, and Kobi Cohen
15:10–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:00	Closing Ceremony & Best Paper Award
20:00	Conference Gala Dinner Place: Pagkratios Tavern, Ippokratous 11, Paphos, Pafos 8010

Each paper presentation lasts 20 minutes, including questions. Paper titles and author names are kept exactly as submitted for the Springer LNCS proceedings.