PROGRAM
Days: Monday, September 14th Tuesday, September 15th Wednesday, September 16th Thursday, September 17th
Monday, September 14th
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09:20-10:10 Session 3: SYNASC Invited talk (B. Meyer)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:20 | Invisible Verification: the Eiffel experience (abstract) |
10:30-12:30 Session 4A: SYNASC Logic and Programming track
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Location: Room A11
| 10:30 | Monomial and Graded Orders in Rocq (abstract) PRESENTER: Micaela Mayero |
| 10:50 | Explainable Escape Analysis for Heap-to-Stack Promotion in C Programs (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Dagular: Gradually-Typed, Implicitly-Parallel Serverless Workflows (abstract) PRESENTER: Harold-Nimrod Foldvari |
| 11:30 | An Algorithmically-Decoded Game Boy Emulator with Concurrent Lua Instrumentation (abstract) PRESENTER: Harold-Nimrod Foldvari |
| 11:50 | The Minimal Essence of Higher-Order Functions in Maude (abstract) |
10:30-12:30 Session 4B: SYNASC NSAI Special Session
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Location: Room A01
| 10:30 | GEARXAI NeuroSymbolic@IJCAI2026 Competition Winner Model Presentation |
| 10:45 | Reasoning Behind Reconstruction: A Bilingual Benchmark for Reasoning over Incomplete Artworks (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Data-aware candidate selection in NL2SQL translation via small separating instances (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Intelligent assistant for medical pre-triage (abstract) |
| 11:40 | A Formal and Simulation-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Collaboration in CT Report Generation (abstract) PRESENTER: Kristijan Cincar |
| 12:00 | Score-CAM Guided Region-of-Interest Extraction with Attention-Based Classification for Chest X-Ray Pneumonia Detection (abstract) |
| 12:15 | EndoFormer: Biologically Grounded Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning over CT Foundation-Model Representations for Adrenocortical Carcinoma (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Location: Zaza Restaurant
13:30-14:20 Session 5: SYNASC Invited talk (M. Roggenbach)
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Location: Room A11
| 13:30 | Verifying Ladder Logic Programs in the Railway Domain – Theory and Practice (abstract) |
14:20-16:20 Session 6A: SYNASC Theory of Computing + Numerical Computing (1) tracks
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Location: Room A11
| 14:20 | Minimum-Cost Electoral Manipulation under Media Influence: Hardness, Approximation, and Algorithms (abstract) PRESENTER: Adrian Miclaus |
| 14:40 | A Behavioural Theory of Probabilistic Algorithms Using Probabilistic Abstract State Machines (abstract) PRESENTER: Flavio Ferrarotti |
| 15:00 | Program and Proof in F* of an LTL Model Checking Algorithm (abstract) PRESENTER: Stéphane Aubry |
| 15:20 | On Counting the Shortest Paths for Hammocks (abstract) PRESENTER: Carmen Terei |
| 15:40 | FPScan: An Automated Constraint-Based Analyzer for Floating-Point Anomaly Detection (abstract) PRESENTER: Julien Bortolussi |
| 16:00 | A Fast Matrix-Vector Product for Fibonacci-Mandelbrot Matrices (abstract) PRESENTER: Michelle Hatzel |
14:20-16:20 Session 6B: SYNASC WSAI Workshop (1)
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Location: Room A01
| 14:20 | Semi-supervised Learning for Robust Time Series Classification in Remote Health Monitoring (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Temporal and Climate-Aware Predictive Modeling of Emergency Department Attendance in Romania (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Study On Hierarchical Classification Of Alzheimer’s Disease Stages From MRI Scans (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Multimodal RGB–LiDAR Fusion for Robust Object Detection (abstract) |
| 15:40 | Analysis of PS-InSAR and Precipitation Time Series Using Univariate and Multivariate Bayesian Ensemble Modeling (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Hybrid Deep Learning Pipelines for Detection of Churches in Satellite Images (abstract) |
14:20-16:20 Session 6C: SYNASC IAFP workshop (1)
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Location: Room 048
| 14:20 | The role of nonexpansive type mappings in designing fixed point algorithms for Data Science problems (abstract) |
16:40-18:00 Session 7A: SYNASC Numerical Computing track (2)
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Location: Room A11
| 16:40 | A comparision between different heuristic in solving Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Native Differential Addition in (Y, Z) Coordinates for Twisted Edwards Curves (abstract) PRESENTER: Costin Radu Boldea |
| 17:20 | Characterizing NVFP4 and FP8 Low-Precision LLM Inference on GB10 Grace Blackwell: A Numerical-Error and Throughput Study (abstract) |
| 17:40 | Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Method-of-Steps Integration for the Mackey-Glass Delay Differential Equation: A Comparative Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Vlad Ifju |
16:40-18:00 Session 7B: HRIA networking session
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Location: Room A01
| 16:40 | Exploring AI-Driven Research with DATA SWEEP |
16:40-18:00 Session 7C: SYNASC IAFP workshop (2)
Chairs:
Location: Room 048
| 16:40 | Fixed point results for nonself contractions in strong b-metric spaces (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Feng-Liu and Kikkawa-Suzuki contractions on sets with a cyclical representation and applications (abstract) |
| 17:20 | On some strict fixed point results for Ćirić type contractions (abstract) |
| 17:40 | New iteration process for approximating fixed points of enriched nonexpansive operators (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Improving Forecast Stability in Financial Time Series through Adaptive Retraining (abstract) |
Tuesday, September 15th
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09:00-09:50 Session 8A: SYNASC Invited talk (T. Ida)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:00 | Revisiting Computational Origami in the Era of Large Language Models (abstract) |
09:00-09:50 Session 8B: FROM Invited talk (D. Horpácsi)
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Location: Room A01
| 09:00 | Formally based tools for Erlang (abstract) |
09:50-11:10 Session 9A: SYNASC Symbolic Computation track (1)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:50 | A Jacobian Rank Certificate for Generic Recoverability of Block-Term Tensor Decompositions (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Progress in Benchmarking Generics for Mathematical Computation (abstract) |
| 10:30 | High-Level Big Integer Arithmetic in Futhark for GPUs (abstract) |
| 10:50 | Guaranteed Pathological Inputs Generation to Warrant Floating-Point Error Bounds (abstract) PRESENTER: David Hamelin |
09:50-11:10 Session 9B: SYNASC ACsys workshop (1)
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Location: Room 048
| 09:50 | Robust Multi-View Pedestrian Detection through Coordinated Per-Camera Assessment and Adaptive Intervention (abstract) |
| 10:10 | A Robustness Assessment Framework for 2D Brain Tumor Segmentation under Missing MRI Modalities (abstract) |
| 10:30 | A Hybrid Framework for Low-Overhead Observability and Runtime Verification in Concurrent Multi-Agent Systems (abstract) |
| 10:50 | A Multi-Agent Microservices Framework for Intelligent Hospital Scheduling Supported by Machine Learning on Clinical Data (abstract) PRESENTER: Kristijan Cincar |
09:50-10:40 Session 9C: FROM: Invited talk (Gh. Stefanescu)
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Location: Room A01
| 09:50 | Artificial Consciousness in Complex Computing Networks (abstract) |
10:40-11:10 Session 10: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 10:40 | Formalization of fragments of the theory of hereditarily finite sets (abstract) PRESENTER: Štěpán Holub |
11:30-12:50 Session 11A: SYNASC Symbolic Computation track (2)
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Location: Room A11
| 11:30 | Reducing the computation of convex hulls to linear programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Chirantan Mukherjee |
| 11:50 | The Search for Sharac Quandles (abstract) PRESENTER: Robert W. McGrail |
| 12:10 | A Computer-Aided Study of the Diminished Euler Sombor Index (Work in progress paper) (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexandru-Petre Tache |
| 12:30 | Improvements to the Frobenius Method (abstract) |
11:30-12:50 Session 11B: SYNASC ACSys workshop (2)
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Location: Room 048
| 11:30 | Efficient Deep Learning and Homology Ensemble for Protein Function Prediction in CAFA 6 (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Ami: a Chatbot for Emotional Support in Romanian (abstract) PRESENTER: Ana-Maria-Iasmina Gușcă |
| 12:10 | Comparing Evacuation Strategies Through Agent-Based Simulation on Real World Maps (abstract) |
11:30-12:50 Session 11C: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 11:30 | Synthesizing Update-Schedules with Game-Based Extension of Bounded Model Checking (abstract) PRESENTER: Janis Kröger |
| 12:00 | Subsumption-Free Private-Pivot Learning in Resolvable Network-Based SAT Solving (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Monitoring and Verification of Multitenant Kubernetes Clusters using TLA+ Trace Checking (abstract) PRESENTER: Ioana Silaș |
13:10-14:00 Lunch
Location: Zaza Restaurant
14:00-14:50 Session 12: SYNASC&FROM Invited talk (G. Rosu)
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Location: Room A11
| 14:00 | FastSet: Verified Settlement for AI-Native Work (abstract) |
14:50-16:50 Session 13A: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (1)
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Location: Room A11
| 14:50 | Benchmarking Vision-Language Models Across All Romanian Driving License Categories: A Failure Mode Analysis (abstract) |
| 15:10 | RoJBMO: Evaluating Large Language Models on Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad Problems (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Multilingual Phishing Email Generation and Detection: A Synthetic Data Pipeline with GRPO Fine-Tuning (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian (abstract) PRESENTER: Dragoș-Mitruț Vasile |
| 16:10 | Towards Automatising the Formulation of Industrial Optimisation Problems with LLMs: A Case Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Katharina Blaimschein |
| 16:30 | OpenRoGrid: A Public Dataset and Machine Learning Benchmark for Romanian Electricity Load Forecasting (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrei-Sebastian Duță |
14:50-16:50 Session 13B: SYNASC PhD Special Session (1)
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Location: Room 048
| 14:50 | A Verification-First Computational Pipeline for Extremal Problems on Degree-Based Graph Indices (abstract) |
| 15:10 | A Computational Test for Total Orderability of Graph Families by Degree-Based Topological Indices (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Confidence Signals and Internal States (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Neural Network-Based Prediction of N-Body System Evolution (abstract) |
| 16:10 | A Comparative Evaluation of Intelligent Methods for Code Smell Detection in Python (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Corner-Guided Bottom-Up Wireframe Parsing (abstract) |
14:50-16:50 Session 13C: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 14:50 | Formalizing the Omega Test in Dafny - Short Paper (abstract) |
| 15:20 | The formalization of two computational models in Dafny - Short Paper (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Certified Compilation in the TELEPERM XS Nuclear Safety I&C Platform (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Fewer Assumptions by Design: A Reusable Skill for LLM-Assisted Verus Verification (abstract) |
17:10-19:10 Session 14A: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (2)
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Location: Room A11
| 17:10 | TREAT: Evaluating Access to Formal Knowledge across Equivalent Mathematical Representations (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Multimodal MRI Fusion Strategies for Brain Tumor Segmentation Using TransResU-Net (abstract) PRESENTER: Ciprian-Mihai Ceausescu |
| 17:50 | Beneficial but Not Sufficient: A Multi-Dimensional Ablation of Metadata Richness for Text-to-SQL Correctness (abstract) PRESENTER: Gary Zavaleta |
| 18:10 | Matter Device Class Detection Based on Encrypted Traffic Using Tree-Based Methods (abstract) PRESENTER: Ioan Pădurean |
| 18:30 | Multi-Layered Semantic Validation: A Defense-in-Depth Approach against White-Box Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Audio (abstract) |
17:10-19:10 Session 14B: SYNASC PhD Special Session (2)
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Location: Room 048
| 17:10 | Multispectral Voice Extraction Biometric System for Wearable Medical Devices (abstract) PRESENTER: Marius-Alexandru Olaru |
| 17:30 | Comparative Analysis on how the Architecture of an Autoencoder Could Affect the Result of a XAI Post-Method (abstract) |
| 17:50 | A Consolidated Eight-Class Engine-Component Detection Dataset and an In-Domain YOLOv11 Variant Study for Automotive Diagnostics (abstract) |
| 18:10 | MyMed: Patient-Centered Laboratory Report Analysis with Faithfulness Verification (abstract) PRESENTER: Roxana Savu |
| 18:30 | Performance Evaluation of the Naccache-Stern Trapdoor Scheme vs. NIST P-256 and Curve25519 in Classical and NISQ Environments (abstract) |
17:10-19:10 Session 14C: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 17:10 | Domain Theory Meets Interaction Trees in Rocq (abstract) |
| 17:40 | Certification of Bilateral Patience Sort in Theorema and Rocq (abstract) |
Wednesday, September 16th
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09:00-09:50 Session 15: SYNASC&FROM Invited talk (D. Lucanu)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:00 | Matching-Logic-Based Domain Specific Reasoning (abstract) |
09:50-10:40 Session 16: SYNASC&FROM Invited talk (T. Kutsia)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:50 | Logic-Based Generalization: Theory and Applications (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 17A: SYNASC&FROM Tutorial (P.C. Ölveczky)
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Location: Room A11
| 11:00 | Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed and Real-Time Systems in Maude (abstract) |
11:00-12:20 Session 17B: SYNASC NCA workshop (1)
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Location: Room 048
| 11:00 | Art Museum Feedback Sentiment Analysis: A Word2Vec, XGBoost and Quasi-Reflexive Genetic Sinh - Cosh Optimizer Approach (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Semantic Segmentation of Maize–Weed Fields for Precision Spraying (abstract) PRESENTER: Ionut Vlad Marinas |
| 11:40 | An Interactive Museum Platform for Visitor Engagement with AI-Powered Hybrid Head--Face Swap (abstract) |
| 12:00 | AI-Assisted Contextualization of Museum Artefacts (abstract) |
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Location: Zaza Restaurant
13:30-15:30 Session 18A: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (3)
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Location: Room A11
| 13:30 | Registry-Driven Multi-Modal Computer Vision for Industrial Device Identification (abstract) PRESENTER: Vlad-Andrei Marius |
| 13:50 | 3D Object Reassembly of Broken Objects using Deep Learning Methods (abstract) PRESENTER: Raluca Diana Chis |
| 14:10 | ViTs and CNNs Under NPR Anonymization (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Hybrid CNN-VMamba Architecture for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation of Autonomous Driving Scenes (abstract) |
13:30-15:30 Session 18B: SYNASC PhD Special Session (3)
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Location: Room 048
| 13:30 | AI Detection and Camera-LiDAR Early Fusion for Distance Estimation under Progressive Sensor Degradation (abstract) PRESENTER: Lorena-Malina Guiu |
| 13:50 | Reliability-Calibrated Labels for Predicting Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents (abstract) PRESENTER: Bahar Atayeva |
| 14:10 | Beyond Polarity: Sentiment-Quality Features for Cross-Sectional Volatility Prediction with Deep Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Ciocan |
| 14:30 | Content-Based Image Retrieval of Roman Settlements Across Multiple Image Representations Using Canny-HOG Features and Orientation Data (abstract) |
| 14:50 | A Hybrid Deep-Shallow Air Quality Anomaly Detection Method (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Transformer-Based Anomaly Detection in Decentralized Exchange Transactions (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Precupas |
13:30-14:20 Session 18C: FROM invited talk (R. Iosif)
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Location: Room A01
| 13:30 | Robust and Effective Recognisability of Small Tree-Width Graphs (abstract) |
14:20-15:20 Session 19: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 14:20 | Verifying Graceful Degradation in a Distributed Malware-Detection System with SPIN (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrei Aldea |
| 14:50 | Semi-automated Verification of Symbolic Invariants In Extended Symmetric Nets (abstract) |
Thursday, September 17th
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09:00-09:50 Session 20A: SYNASC invited talk (N. Sebe)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:00 | How AI Learns to See, Generate, and Judge Fairly (abstract) |
09:00-09:50 Session 20B: FROM invited talk (C. Dima)
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Location: Room A01
| 09:00 | Foundations of a theory of bandwidth for timed automata (abstract) |
09:50-11:50 Session 21A: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (4)
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Location: Room A11
| 09:50 | Solving bilevel multi-objective optimization problems with Lorenz dominance (abstract) PRESENTER: Laura Ruff |
| 10:10 | Escaping Forests using Evolutionary Computation (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Machine-Learning Assisted Gradient-Descent Bit-Flipping Decoding (abstract) |
| 10:50 | Automatic Guitar Tone Matching: A Closed-Loop Framework Integrating Symbolic Generative AI and Genetic Optimization (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Distinguishing AI-Generated Music from Edited Audio as a Hard-Negative Robustness Task (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Hierarchical and Explainable Forensics of Manipulated Facial Images (abstract) PRESENTER: Otilia Zvoristeanu |
09:50-11:50 Session 21B: SYNASC NCA (2) & SegWEDA workshops
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Location: Room 048
| 09:50 | Benchmarking Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-Corpus Emotion Recognition: Wav2Vec2 vs. HuBERT vs. WavLM vs. Whisper vs. Classical Baselines (abstract) |
| 10:10 | Meta-GA-Evolved Hyperparameters by Objective, Starting Condition, and Evaluation Budget (abstract) |
| 10:30 | VR-Based Training of Daily Living Skills in Autism with Quantitative Progress Monitoring (abstract) |
| 10:50 | AIR-TV: Generating Scientific News Broadcasts Using Generative AI Models (abstract) |
09:50-11:30 Session 21C: FROM session
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Location: Room A01
| 09:50 | Dependently Typed Model Composition for Matching Logic (abstract) PRESENTER: Ádám Kurucz |
| 10:20 | Complete Heyting algebra semantics for an intuitionistic version of Matching Logic (abstract) |
12:10-13:30 Session 22: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (5)
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Location: Room A11
| 12:10 | X-BrainVAE: Transformer-based Variational Autoencoders for Debiasing EEG Data (abstract) |
| 12:30 | End-to-End AI-Assisted Discovery and Validation of Improper Privilege Management in WordPress Plugins: The Case of CVE-2026-6741 (abstract) PRESENTER: Catalin-Andrei Chirita |
| 12:50 | Symbolic Distillation of Random Forests for Real-Time Behavioural Classification of Player Frustration and Engagement (abstract) |
| 13:10 | A Semantic Investigation of Spiking Neural P Systems with Mute Rules (abstract) PRESENTER: Eneia Nicolae Todoran |
13:30-14:30 Lunch
Location: Zaza Restaurant
14:30-16:30 Session 23: SYNASC Artificial Intelligence track (6)
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Location: Room A11
| 14:30 | Detecting AI-Generated Code Under Cosmetic Transformations: A Graph-Neural Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Cristian Fiodorov |
| 14:50 | Wi-Fi, Noise, and Chewing: What Actually Breaks a Consumer BCI (abstract) PRESENTER: Mihai-David Vuescu |
| 15:10 | A Łukasiewicz-Moisil Abstraction of Gene Regulatory Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Bogdan Macovei |
| 15:30 | Revisiting UltraScanNet: Multi-Scale Fusion, Refinement, and the Limits of One-Shot Language Cues for Breast Ultrasound Classification (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Multimodal Hierarchical Retrieval for Medical Image Search (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrei-Gabriel Mitran |