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20th Research Challenges in Information Science

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Understandability in Information Science

Toulouse, France, 26 - 29 May, 2026

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RCIS 2026 Program Overview

Time Tuesday, May 26 Wednesday, May 27 Thursday, May 28 Friday, May 29
08:00 Registration Registration Registration
08:30 Registration
09:00 Conference Opening KeynoteBarbara Pernici
Are We Ready for Data-Centric AI? An Information Systems Engineering Perspective
KeynoteMario Lasso Cisneros
Commercial Aircraft development: geometrical variation information management from architecture trough development, manufacturing and operations
09:30 KeynoteCyril Labbé
Information Systems for Scientific Publications: Detection of Research Rubbish and More
10:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break
Session 7Process Mining, Modeling, and Intelligent BPM Systems (I)
Session 10Requirements Engineering
Session 11Modeling and Representation of Digital Systems
11:00
Session 1Trust, Privacy, and Ethical AI Usage
Session 2RCIS + INFORSID
Tutorial 2 Quantifying the Human Factor: Automated Assessment of Individual and Social Sustainability on GitHub Software Projects
Michael Wahler
12:30 Lunch Break Closing
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00
Session 3Intelligent Systems Applications
Session 4Advanced Data Processing
Session 8Process Mining, Modeling, and Intelligent BPM Systems (II)
Session 9RCIS + INFORSID
15:00
15:30 Coffee Break Social Event
(Departure 15h30)
16:00
Tutorial 1 Deep understanding of Information System architecture issues using Lego™ Technic bricks
Jean-Philippe Gouigoux
Coffee Break
16:30
Session 5Recommendation and Decision Support
Session 6Machine Learning and AI Systems Engineering
17:00
17:30
18:00 Guided Tour
18:30 Welcome Reception Gala Dinner


RCIS 2026 Detailed Program

Tuesday, May 26th
09:00 - 10:30

Workshops

09:00 - 10:30

Doctoral Consortium

11:00 - 12:30

Workshops

11:00 - 12:30

Doctoral Consortium

14:00 - 15:30

Workshops

14:00 - 15:30

Doctoral Consortium

16:00 - 17:30

Tutorial 1

Deep understanding of Information System architecture issues using Lego™ Technic bricks

Jean-Philippe Gouigoux, CTO TSS France
Abstract: A major part of Information Systems suffers evolution issues in time because they have not been designed from the beginning but started with disparate pieces of software put together without a big picture vision of what it would become ten years afterwards. Industrialization is highly needed, but very rare at the moment, as IT still needs modularization and standardization. By showing a Lego™ Technic-based simulation of an Information System, concepts of coupling, middleware, Entreprise Integration Patterns like Multiplex and Wiretap, orchestration and choreography can be explained in a very concrete and practical way, making people wonder why we do not do the same with software (hint: because norms and standards are less used).
16:00 - 17:30

Doctoral Consortium

Wednesday, May 27th
11:00 - 12:30

Session 1: Trust, Privacy, and Ethical AI Usage

#10

Ask Safely: Privacy-Aware LLM Query Generation for Knowledge Graphs

Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi and Jordi Cabot
#26

On The Role of Trust and Social Influence in Acceptance of ChatGPT in Higher Education

Asma Baitiche and Irina Rychkova
#28

Mitigating Ethical Risks in AI Development

Wilder Balwdin, Sepideh Ghanavati and Manuel Woersdoerfer
11:00 - 12:30

Session 2: RCIS + INFORSID

#39

Modeling and Visualizing Territorial Trajectories

Yunji Zhang, Sébastien Laborie and Philippe Roose
#50

Data Reduction Methods for Regression: A multi-Objective Perspective

Vlada Stegarescu, Jiefu Song, Leonidas Papastamatis and Benoit Baurens
#16

Digital Twins for Building Renovation - What is the added value?

Callista Raschauer, Marianne Schnellmann and Henderik A. Proper
11:00 - 12:30

Tutorial 2

Quantifying the Human Factor: Automated Assessment of Individual and Social Sustainability on GitHub Software Projects

Michael Wahler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland
Abstract: Sustainability in software engineering is frequently restricted to environmental or technical concerns. However, neglect of individual (well-being, satisfaction) and social (team dynamics, psychological safety) dimensions is a primary driver of burnout and project failure. This tutorial introduces a novel, quantitative approach to assess these dimensions using RootSource. Participants will learn how to map theoretical sustainability criteria—such as job satisfaction and communication quality—to measurable indicators mined from GitHub repositories.
14:00 - 16:00

Session 3: Intelligent Systems Applications

#32

From PDF Assessments to LMS Deployment: A Model-Driven QTI-Based Framework

Atefeh Nirumand Jazi, Renzo Degiovanni and Jordi Cabot
#44

Optimizing Hospital Surgical Schedules with Clustered Machine Learning Approache

Mohamed Maazoun, Marwa Trabelsi, Safa Layeb, Franck Fontanili, Olivier Oger, Philippe Olivier, Salima Ben Ayed, Leah Rifi and Guillaume Dessevre
#66

Analyzing Empirical Findings on User Reliance Behaviors in XAI-Assisted Decision-Making

José Cezar de Souza Filho, Rafik Belloum and Káthia Marçal de Oliveira
#106

MedRACE-L3: Context and Diversity-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Clinical Record Summarization

Abir Baâzaoui, Hanen Khadhraoui and Walid Barhoumi
14:00 - 16:00

Session 4: Advanced Data Processing

#75

Progressive Data Minimisation for Multi-Regulatory Compliance in Legal Information Systems

Sriteja Chilakamarri, Haralambos Mouratidis, Mays Al-Naday, Lina Barakat and Laura Harrington-Rutterford
#114

Enabling Conformance Checking for inter-object Constraints

Lisa Arnold, Marius Breitmayer and Manfred Reichert
#85

Multi-Sample Prompting and Actor-Critic Prompt Optimization for Diverse Synthetic Data Generation

Abdelkarim El-Hajjami and Camille Salinesi
14:00 - 16:00

Tutorial 3

16:30 - 18:30

Session 5: Recommendation and Decision Support

#61

Different Intents, Different Result Pages: A Study of Search Engine Results Pages Composition

Adelaide Santos and Carla Teixeira Lopes
#74

Black-Box Poisoning Attacks on Sequential Recommender Systems via Cross-Domain Profiles

Vincenzo Agate, Vincenzo Pio Barreca, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Morana and Antonio Virga
#43

A Conversational Agent for Azure Cloud Architecture and Configuration Recommendation

Ha Nhi Ngo, Achraf Jemali and Mouna Ben Mabrouk
#109

Fairness in Healthcare Processes: A Quantitative Analysis of Decision Making in Triage

Rachmadita Andreswari, Stephan Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Jan Mendling
16:30 - 18:30

Session 6: Machine Learning and AI Systems Engineering

#35

Automatic Security Testing of System Prompts Against Prompt Injection Attacks

Anargyros Kiourkos, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo and Robert Clarisó
#63

A W3C PROV–Aligned Metamodel for Tracing End-to-End Provenance in ML Pipelines

Ahmad Qadeib Alban, Khalid Belhajjame and Daniela Grigori
#25

Hybrid Loss Function for Graph Neural Networks: a Case Study on a Real-World Timetabling Problem

Laura-Maria Cornei
#18

Abstracting User Metrics for Intelligent User Interfaces in MDD: A UsiXML Case Study

Alberto Gaspar, José Ignacio Panach Navarrete, Miriam Gil and Jean Vanderdonckt
Thursday, May 28th
10:30 - 12:30

Session 7: Process Mining, Modeling, and Intelligent BPM (I)

#8

Comprehending LLM-generated BPMN 2.0 Process Models: Novice vs. Expert Perspectives

Maximilian Möller, Luca Franziska Hörner and Manfred Reichert
#3

Complementing Event Log with Policy Log for Business Process Mining

Zakaria Maamar, Amel Benna and Abderrahmane Maaradji
#122

Automatic Support in Process Redesign: Structural Impact Analysis of Change Operations

Kerstin Andree, Fabian Deigner, Florian Stupp, Ivan Kuzmin and Luise Pufahl
#24

A Domain-Specific Language and Runtime Interpreter to build Datasets for IoT-Enhanced Business Processes

Asmaa Bouich and Pedro Valderas
10:30 - 12:30

Forum

Data Chameleon: Biological-Inspired Contextual Privacy for Automated Compliance Evaluation in Trustworthy Data Sharing

Shudan Yang and Pierluigi Plebani

Towards an IoT Plan for Smart Buildings: Lessons from a Real-World Construction Project

Lasse Harjumaa, Petri Jyrkkä, Ilkka Kivelä and Ismo Hakala

When Fake News Sounds Right: Assessing Message Credibility in AI-Generated Misinformation

Paulina Wojciechowska Dzięcielak, Pierre-Emmanuel Arduin and Myriam Merad

From Data Governance Policies to Policy-as-Code: An LLM-based Framework

Matteo Falconi, Valeria Maria Fortina, Marco Tonnarelli, Indika Kumara and Pierluigi Plebani

MAPS-AI a Model-Driven AI-Assisted Tool for IT Project Plan and Scope: Case Study and Evaluation

Megija Krista Miļūne and Oksana Nikiforova

Low-Code Platforms Adoption : A Motivational Adoption Process Perspective

Elisa De Coster, Anthony Simonofski and Monique Snoeck

Quantifying ICT Third-party Concentration Risk Using DORA Reporting Data

Beate Krauze and Laura Kruglova

Toward Probabilistic Multimodal Breast Cancer Analysis: Dempster–Shafer Fusion of VAE Latent Imaging Features and LLM-Based Clinical Knowledge

Abir Baâzaoui, Malek Baâzaoui, Ikram Bellara and Walid Barhoumi

Adoption of AI-Based Recruitment Systems: Benefits, Challenges, and User Trust

Hao Yue Liu and Rebecca Deneckere

Querying Structured Data Through Natural Language Using Language Models

Popovici Matei, Valentin-Micu Hontan, Andrei-Alexandru Bunea and Nikolaos Dimitrios Tantaroudas

Towards a Meta-Model for Complex Performance Indicators: A Systematic Literature Review and Cardiology Illustration

Benito Giunta, Corentin Burnay and Alexandre Faulkner

Mapping Capabilities with LLMs: Requirements and Feasibility Assessment of Capability Broker

Adrian Olbricht, Jennifer Skopac, Jan Lundberg, Jelena Zdravkovic and Janis Stirna

Insights from Triage Processes for Fairness-Aware Process Redesign

Rachmadita Andreswari, Stephan Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Jan Mendling

Can we typify health information seekers? Identification of personas among laypeople

Mariana Dias and Carla Teixeira Lopes
10:30 - 12:30

Research Projects

MAPS-AI: Model-Based Approach for IT Project Scope Using Artificial Intelligence

Oksana Nikiforova, Jānis Grabis, Oscar Pastor, Kristaps Babris, Megija Krista Miļūne and Rihards Bobkovs

GAINAfrica: Generative Artificial INtelligence for Africa

Filippo Bianchini, Marco Calamo, Francesca De Luzi, Flavia Monti, Massimo Mecella, Rima Grati, Andrea Declich, Fabio Feudo, Khouloud Boukadi Boukadi, Bassem Bouaziz and Amani Eissa

BETTER: Better rEal-world healTh-DaTa distributEd analytics Research platform: project progress and emerging research challenges

Adrián García, Diana Martínez, Ana León and Óscar Pastor

Towards Developing Federated Digital Twins for Society 5.0

Elena Navarro, Pascual González, Jose Luis de la Vara, Francisco Montero, María T. López, Víctor López-Jaquero, Elena Pretel and Clara Ayora
14:00 - 15:00

Session 8: Process Mining, Modeling, and Intelligent BPM (II)

#15

The Ethical Risk Handover: Operationalizing Normative Intent in BPM via Large Language Models

Leo Poss, Christopher Julian Kern, Julia Kroenung and Stefan Schönig
#33

Discovering Resource-Driven Root Causes of Process Variants from Event Logs

Felix Schumann and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
14:00 - 15:00

Session 9: RCIS + INFORSID

#54

Analyzing Embodied and Use-Phase Environmental Impacts of Resources within Business Processes

Matteo Ciccone, Mario Cortes-Cornax, Agnès Front and Claudia Roncancio
#99

Why open a generative AI model? A typology based on what is open and what is not

Robert Viseur and Nicolas Jullien
Friday, May 29th
10:30 - 12:30

Session 10: Requirements Engineering

#58

Kinematic Feasibility Evaluation of Robot Requirements

Jeshwitha Jesus Raja and Marian Daun
#36

A Unified Security Requirements Catalog for the Industrial IoT

Linda Kölbel, Leo Poss and Stefan Schönig
#82

ConsentML: A Modelling Language for Dynamic Consent Modelling

Samuel Daniels and Haralambos Mouratidis
#60

Requirements Engineering Challenges in Developing Machine Learning Systems for Medical Imaging in Hospitals

Amanda Garde Vallentin, Natascha Rylander Bech and Elda Paja
10:30 - 12:30

Session 11: Secure and Optimized Critical Systems

#89

Mitigating Cognitive Burden in Water Network Management with LLM-based Conversational Agents

Lucia Arnau Muñoz, António Amaro Costa Vieira, José Vicente Berná Martínez and Maribel Yasmina Santos
#90

Multi-stage method for detecting and characterising incidents in critical infrastructures

David Saavedra Pastor, António Amaro Costa Vieira, José Vicente Berná Martínez and Maribel Yasmina Santos
#88

Alignment of endogenous and exogenous data sources for Context-Aware Optimised Control

José Vicente Berná Martínez, Carlos Calatayud Asensi, Lucia Arnau Muñoz, David Saavedra Pastor and Cinthia Paola Pascual Caceres
#117

Towards an Ontology for Security Management Knowledge Sharing in Manufacturing-as-a-Service

Jānis Grabis, Kaspars Ābelnīca, Rūta Pirta and Giacomo Leopizzi

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