Schedule Overview

Time Wed 12 Aug. Thu 13 Aug. Fri 14 Aug. Sat 15 Aug. Sun 16 Aug.
09:00–10:00 Keynote Keynote Workshop Doctoral Consortium
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break 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 Workshop Doctoral Consortium
12:00–13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:00–14:30 Paper Session II CBR for Dynamic Real-World Domains Paper Session V Adaptation, Generalization, and Learning Workshop Doctoral Consortium
14:30–15:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break & PC Meeting (starting at 14h) Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:00–16:00 Paper Session III LLM Reasoning, Alignment, and Responsible Use Paper Session VI LLM-Based CBR Workshop
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: TBD
  • 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: TBD
  • 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: TBD
  • 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