Schedule Overview
| Time | Wed 12 Aug. | Thu 13 Aug. | Fri 14 Aug. | Sat 15 Aug. | Sun 16 Aug. |
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| 08:30–09:00 | Registration Desk | ||||
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote: Eyke Hüllermeier In any case, or maybe not? Towards uncertainty-aware CBR | Keynote: Rosina O. Weber XAI is in Trouble, but is CBR? |
Registration Desk: 09:00–09:30
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| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30–12:00 | Paper Session I Foundations, Retrieval, and the State of CBR | Paper Session IV Explainable and Multimodal CBR | |||
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 13:00–14:30 | Paper Session II CBR for Dynamic Real-World Domains | Paper Session V Adaptation, Generalization, and Learning | |||
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break & PC Meeting PC Meeting starting at 14:00 | |||
| 15:00–16:00 | Paper Session III LLM Reasoning, Alignment, and Responsible Use | Paper Session VI LLM-Based CBR | |||
| 16:00–17:00 | Poster Pitches | Paper Session VI LLM-Based CBR & Community Meeting | Commute: Uni → City | ||
| 17:00–18:00 | Reception & Posters | Social Program | |||
| 18:00–19:00 | DC Intro | Reception & Posters | Commute: Uni → City | Social Program | |
| 19:00–20:00 | DC Intro | Commute: Uni → City | Conference Dinner | Social Program | |
| 20:00–21:00 | City Tour | Conference Dinner | |||
| 21:00–22:00 | Conference Dinner |
Paper Session I
Foundations, Retrieval, and the State of CBR
Thu 13 Aug., 10:30–12:00
Chair: Ralph Bergmann
- The Changing Shape of Case-Based Reasoning: A Topic-Level Analysis & Call-to-Action for Modern CBR Barry Smyth
- Exploring Embedding Spaces for Case-Based Reasoning: Geometry, Coherence, and Human Alignment Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz
- An adaptation-guided and efficient case retrieval approach based on a dichotomy of the case space Jules Sipp and Jean Lieber
Paper Session II
CBR for Dynamic Real-World Domains
Thu 13 Aug., 13:00–14:30
Chair: Jean Lieber
- InterruptSense: Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal CBR for Interruptibility Detection in Knowledge Work Tim Haase and Jörg Cassens
- IceCBR: Climate-Aware Case Adaptation for Non-Stationary Arctic Sea-Ice Forecasting Wei Wang, Weidong Yang, Xing Liu, Xing Xing and Wenfang Cheng
- A Large-Small Model Coordination Framework based on Tactical Case-Based Reasoning Reward Machine for Adversarial Game Scenarios Wei Dong, Sirui Huang, Chong Wang, Guohua Zhang and Yindong Ji
- Case-Based Causal Reasoning for Elite Basketball Decision Support: A Human-in-the-Loop Approach to Clutch-Time Strategy Recommendation Dandan Cui, Yuqiao Qian, Mulin Yang and Wenchao Yang
Paper Session III
LLM Reasoning, Alignment, and Responsible Use
Thu 13 Aug., 15:00–16:00
Chair: Mirjam Minor
- Explaining AlignLLM: Case Alignment in LLM-as-a-Judge Systems Ramitha Abeyratne, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Kyle Martin and Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji
- Component-Aware Case Retrieval for Professional Ethics with Ontology-Constrained LLM Extraction Christopher Rauch and Rosina Weber
- TextBFGS: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Code Optimization via Error-Operator Retrieval Zizheng Zhang, Yuyang Liao, Chen Chen, Jian He, Dun Wu, Qianjin Yu, Yanqin Gao, Jin Yang, Kailai Zhang, Eng Siong Chng and Xionghu Zhong
Paper Session IV
Explainable and Multimodal Case-Based Reasoning
Fri 14 Aug., 10:30–12:00
Chair: Barry Smyth
- Combining Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Retrieval-Based Image Classification Zachary Wilkerson, David Leake and David Crandall
- SSNN-XCBR: A Siamese-Spiking Neural Network Architecture for Audio Case-Based Explanations Pedro Antonio Martin Pelaez and Marta Caro-Martinez
- Case-Based Interpretability in Graph-Level Anomaly Detection via Contrast with Normal Prototypes Qiuran Zhao, Kai Ming Ting and Xinpeng Li
- Explanation of Similarities in Temporal Case-Based Reasoning by Visualization Roman Schander, Alexander Schultheis and Ralph Bergmann
Paper Session V
Adaptation, Generalization, and Learning
Fri 14 Aug., 13:00–14:00
Chair: David Leake
- Failure-Aware Matching-Based Adaptation for Generalisable Reuse Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji, Pedram Salimi and Nirmalie Wiratunga
- An Empirical Investigation of Bias and Unfairness in Case-Based Adaptation Thomas Gabel
- Hierarchical Contrastive Learning with Explanation-Aware Training for Case-Based APT Recognition Wenjie Liu, Zhen Xu, Yan Zhang, Qian Tan and Huading Su
Paper Session VI
LLM-Based CBR: Prompting, Adaptation, and Generation
Fri 14 Aug., 15:00–16:30
Chair: Nirmalie Wiratunga
- Case-Based Prompt Learning for SO2 Pump Scheduling Hongyu Cui, Jiarui Wang, Guanghua Tang and Abdoul Fatakhou Ba
- Case-Based Adaptation and Retrieval-Augmented Self-Reflection for Multi-Label Classification Lasal Jayawardena, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji and Darren Nicol
- Hallucinations Considered Helpful: Increasing Case Base Competence with LLM-Hallucinated Cases Kaitlynne Wilkerson and David Leake
- Keep Adaptation Simple: Implicit vs. Explicit Adaptation for LLM-Based CBR Ravi Maithrey Regulagedda, Nischal Bangalore Krupashankar and David Leake
Poster Pitches
Poster Session
Thu 13 Aug., 16:00–17:00
Chair: Kyle Martin
LLM Agents, Tool Use, and Model Repair
- NegLLM: Enhancing Strategic LLM Negotiation Agents with Case-Based Reasoning Ruoke Wang, Tianzi Ma, Yulin Wu, Jiajia Zhang and Xuan Wang
- Beyond Trajectory: Explicit Case-Based Memory for Decision-Making in Multimodal GUI Agents Yongkang Zhang and Ai Zheng
- Retrieving Precedents, Adapting Tool Plans, and Revising Judgments: Case-Based Reasoning for Zero-shot Multimodal Harmful Content Detection Jianyu Zhou and Zhanyi Zhou
- Case-Based Calibration of Adaptive Reasoning and Execution for LLM Tool Use Renning Pang, Tian Lan, Leyuan Liu, Piao Tong, Sheng Cao and Xiaosong Zhang
- ProtoCase: Case-Based Repair for LLM-Generated Security Protocol Models Shicong Zhang
- From Redundancy to Precision: A CBR-Aligned Compressed Tree-based Case Repository for Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning Mucun Xie, Yijia Xu and Jian Li
Security, Alerts, Workflows, and Temporal Reasoning
- CBR-PAR: LLM-Augmented Case-Based Reasoning for Provenance-Based Alert Reduction Canhua Chen, Yaqin Cao, Liu Xinyu, Baihang Liu, Yongjun Wang, Xiaoyu Wang and Liu Qixu
- Vision-Based Retrieval of Semantic Workflows in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning Maxim Hotz, Lukas Malburg, Kokulan Thanabalan and Ralph Bergmann
- Neuro-Symbolic Temporal Reasoning: A Hybrid Case-Based Approach for Robust Expiration Date Recognition Hao Peng, Juan Bayón Fernández, Joaquin Recas and Maria Guijarro
Applications and Decision Support
- A Case-Based Reasoning System for Meteorological Event Analysis Integrating Multi-Source Observational Data Chenxi Wang, Yan Li, Xinjin Ge, Hanwen Zhang and Chunli Lv
- Case-Based Identification of Anti-Coagulation Therapy for Pregnant Women Using Approximation and Interpolation of Sequences Erwan Diebold, Jean Lieber, Nabila Merah and Aurélie Bannay
- Knowledge-Guided Generative Adaptation in Case-Based Reasoning for Automatic Art Exhibition Generation Jorge Lopez-Varela, Javier Vega-Dominguez, Belén Díaz-Agudo, Juan A. Recio-Garcia and Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz
Text, Classification, and CBR Development
- GenWriter 2.0: A Hybrid Case-Based and LLM Rewriting Approach for Mitigating Implicit Gender Cues in Text Shweta Soundararajan and Sarah Jane Delany
- Top-Down Hyperbolic Case Retrieval for Few-Shot Hierarchical Ordinal Text Classification Vihanga Ashinsana Wijayasekara, Kyle Martin and Nirmalie Wiratunga
- Challenges and Support Potentials in the Development of CBR Applications Lisa Grewenig, Christian Zeyen, Alexander Schultheis, Lukas Malburg and Ralph Bergmann
Saturday Workshop
Workshop Programme
Sat 15 Aug., 09:30–14:10
Commute to the city at 16:00
Presentation format:
Long papers: 15 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion.
Short papers: 10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion.
Opening
Opening
Session 1: Applications
XAI in Genomics with LLM-Powered Explanations in Oncology
Isabelle Bichindaritz, Shazveen Saleem and Leszek Kotula
PACE-CBR: A Pose-Aware Conversational Case-Based
Exercise Coach
Pedram Salimi, Nirmalie Wiratunga,
Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji, Truong Dang,
Vihanga Wijayasekara and Kay Cooper
Coffee Break
Session 2: LLM Evaluation and Applications in NLP
AlignLLM: Addressing Short Answer Limitations in
LLM-as-a-Judge Systems
Ramitha Abeyratne, Nirmalie Wiratunga,
Kyle Martin and Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji
Applying Open-Weight Models and Case-Based Reasoning
to Local Document Classification Tasks
Joseph Kendall-Morwick
Short paper
Can LLMs Reason with Case-Based Structure?
Model-Dependent Effects of CBR-Inspired Decomposition
on AI Risk Assessment
Gareth McConomy, Raymond Bond, David H. Glass,
Jun Liu and Holly Toner
Lunch
Session 3: CBR Representation and Cycle
Agentic RAG for Case-Based Adaptation
Tolga Tel and Mirjam Minor
Short paper
Capturing LLM Cases for RAG Reuse
Lake Yin and David Leake
Discussion and Closing
Workshop Discussion, Synthesis and Wrap-up
Discussion of common themes, open research questions,
and potential directions for future collaboration.
Doctoral Consortium
Doctoral Consortium Programme
Sun 16 Aug., 09:00–15:00
Format:
Doctoral presentations, mentoring discussions, panel discussion
and closing session.
Opening and Session 1
Opening of the session
Some reflexions on the career of a computer scientist
Pierre-Alexandre Murena
Panel on career reflexions
With all mentors and questions from the audience
Coffee Break
Session 2
Doctoral Presentations
- Exploring Case-Based Reasoning for Multivariate Time Series Classification – Application to Music Emotion Recognition Erwan Diebold Mentor: Ralph Bergmann
- Retrieval-Augmented Case-Based Reasoning for Trustworthy Document Understanding at Scale Lasal Jayawardena Mentor: Pierre-Alexandre Murena
- Towards Interpretable Case-Based Reasoning for Acoustic Signal Classification under Low-Data Constraints Cyprien Pankowski Mentor: Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz
Lunch
Session 3 and Closing
Doctoral Presentations and Closing
- Leveraging Generative AI Tasks Using CBR Methods with Structural Knowledge Tolga Tel Mentor: Nirmalie Wiratunga
- AI Copilot for FEL Experiments Mahmoud Ajami Mentor: David Leake
- Towards Explainable Hybrid Similarity for Cybersecurity Incident Retrieval Marc Krüger Mentor: Kyle Martin
- Closing of the Doctoral Consortium
Coffee Break