The 2026 IEEE 4th Conference on Information Technology and Data Science, CITDS 2026

 

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The conference will start on the 27th of August 2026 at 9.00 a.m. and will continue on the 28th of August 2026 from 9.10 a.m. to 17.20 p.m. UTC+2. There will be two plenary lectures on each conference day and three parallel sessions will take place. The authors have a 15 minute talk to present their research and plus 5 minutes for questions and answers. The plenary and keynote lectures will be 30-minute talks. Please prepare your conference presentation in advance according to these time limits. The CISCO Webex online platform will be used for the conference.

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will be the building of the Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary.

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27th Aug, THURSDAY

09:00 - 09:10

Conference Opening - Room: F01

General Chair of CITDS2026: András Hajdu

09:10 - 09:40
Plenary Talk

Resource Orchestration and Scheduling Across the Mist-Fog-Cloud Continuum: Trends and Future Directions
Helen D. Karatza
Chair: István Fazekas

Room: F01

09:40 - 09:50

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Stochastic Models in Data Science

Chair: István Fazekas
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: András Hajdu
Session C - Room: 201
Temporal Data Science with Applications

Chair: Márton Ispány
09:50 - 10:10 Efficient Scheduling of Mixed-Criticality Pipeline Workflows with Imprecise Computations in Distributed Environments
Helen D. Karatza
Hierarchical Structured Abstraction as an Inductive Bias for Out-of-Distribution Generalisation
Gnaneswar Villuri, Hashmath Shaik and Alex Doboli
Predictive Modeling of Misinformation Diffusion Patterns on Facebook and X in the 2025 Philippine Midterm Elections
Carmela Lei M. Bañaga, Niña Alexa A. Dinglasan, Ysobella C. Villariba, Richard N. Monreal and Florenzo Isaac E. Romance
10:10 - 10:30 Numerically Stable CUDA Implementation of the High-Order Multivariate Moment Computations
Tamás Menyhárt, András Hajdu and Róbert Lakatos
Open-Ended LLM Problem Solving: Structured Scaffolding for Concept Combination, Agentic Control, and Cross-Coupled Symbolic Tasks
Hashmath Shaik, Gnaneswar Villuri and Alex Doboli
Chaotic Systems Modeling with Federated Learning Approaches and Recurrent Neural Networks
Georgiana-Stefania Stoie and Roland Bolboaca
10:30 - 10:50 Learning Hysteretic Routing Policies for Heterogeneous Queues with Switching Costs
Mostafa Ali and Dmitry Efrosinin
Towards AI-Assisted Hardware Engineering: An Overview of LLM-Driven RTL Design Frameworks
Shiva Ahir, Alex Doboli and Simona Doboli
Variational Causal Learning for Dynamic Treatment Effects in Time Series Data with an Application to Wholesale Electricity Markets
Masahiro Tanaka
10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Stochastic Models in Data Science
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Helen D. Karatza
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Tamás Bérczes
Session C - Room: 201
Temporal Data Science with Applications
Predictive Analytics

Chair: Márton Ispány
11:10 - 11:30 A Recency-Weighted Monte Carlo Engine for Possession-Level Basketball Forecasting
Lóránd Heidrich and Ádám Kovács
Robustness of Retinal Vessel Segmentation to Image Quality Degradations
János Tóth
MM-TTM-C: Multimodal Topic Tracking Model with Confidence for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Tomoe Taniguchi and Ichiro Kobayashi
11:30 - 11:50 Graph Theory–Driven Methods for Early Optimization of Neural Networks
Daniel Mark Zombori and Imre Varga
L1-aware grammatical error correction for ESL writing: performance-disparity trade-offs
Anita Valieva and János Tóth
Temporal-Aware Graph Attention Network With XGBoost Ensemble for Blockchain Transaction Fraud Detection
Nithish Kumar Ragupathi and Norbert Oláh
11:50 - 12:10 A Hybrid Entropy-Aware Method for Hyperparameter Optimization
Muhammad Talal Bin Tayyab and Gergo Bogacsovics
Data-Efficient Chest X-Ray Classification Under Severe Label Scarcity with Lightweight Backbones
Péter Szilágyi, Gergely Sógor and János Tóth
Applicability of a Spectral-Geometric Transformer for Resolution-Agnostic Estimation of Global Horizontal Irradiance from Geostationary Satellite Observations
Attila Knolmajer, Attila Fodor and Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy
12:10 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30
Plenary Talk

The Next Challenges in Autonomous Driving: Rare Failures
M. Thai
Chair: András Hajdu

Room: F01

14:30 - 14:50

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Autonomous Vehicles and Embedded Systems
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: M. Thai
Session B - Room: F0
Security and Privacy

Chair: Andrea Huszti
Session C - Room: 201
Internet of Things, Operational Technology and Networking

Chair: Imre Varga
14:50 - 15:10 Seasonal Effects in Anomaly Detection for Urban Transit Buses
László Mészáros, László Kovács and András Hajdu
Creating EMBeD, the Embedded Malware Benchmark Dataset
Dávid Maliga, Dorottya Papp and Levente Buttyán
Empirical Analysis of Swarm Intelligence Convergence Curves in WSN Energy Optimization
Levente Filep and Zoltan Gal
15:10 - 15:30 Short-Term Traffic Congestion Prediction Using Public Transportation Data
Robert-Lucian Kis, Adrian-Silviu Roman and Teri Lenard
Automated Generation of Attack Trees from System Models
Dániel Zoltán Szilvágyi and Levente Buttyán
RL DDPG-Based Adaptive Access Point Selection for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems in 6G Networks
Djamila Talbi and Zoltan Gal
15:30 - 15:50 Hyperparameter-Aware Evaluation of Deep Learning Architectures for AI-Generated Image Detection
Ilham Gafarov, Zeyad Qasem, Kerem Duzenli, Balázs Harangi and Mokhaled Al-Hamadani
Real-Time Traffic Classification for Normal and Abnormal Flows in SDN
Safa Abbas and Mohammed Nsaif
A Void-Aware Depth-Based Routing Protocol for Deep-Ocean Life Extension in Underwater WSNs
Wajih Khelifi and Zoltan Gal
15:50 - 16:00

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: András Hajdu
Session B - Room: F0
Security and Privacy

Chair: Csanád Bertók
Session C - Room: 201
Internet of Things, Operational Technology and Networking
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Zoltán Gál
16:00 - 16:20 3D Retinal Reconstruction and Deep Learning for Diagnosis of Dry and Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration from Optical Coherence Tomography Images
Lilla Mezei, Beáta Bajdik and Balázs Harangi
Secure Data Exchange Protocol for IPFS
Csaba Nagy, Andrea Huszti and Norbert Oláh
An Energy-Aware Hybrid GA-PSO Routing Protocol for Solar-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Cities
Mohammed Bamatraf and Mohammed Nsaif
16:20 - 16:40 Efficient Local Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Neighboring Document Slice Contextualization
Sándor Martin Tibor and Róbert Lakatos
FAME: From Adversarial Feature Vectors to Malware Evasion via SMT
Endre Glocker, József Sándor and Roland Nagy
Surrogate model of a manufacturing system using random forest method
Gábor Ruzicska, Levente Czégé and Tamás Mankovits
16:40 - 17:00 Explainable Multimodal AI for Crop Health Monitoring: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Against Spectral Vegetation Indices
Sumaiya Ashfaque and Gergő Bogacsovics
Development and Implementation of a Blockchain-Integrated ABAC Framework for Secure Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments
Kris C. Bahaya and Ariel Roy L. Reyes
Precedence-Constrained Treatment Sequence Scheduling in Outpatient Healthcare Using a Heuristic Genetic Algorithm
Veronika Gombás and Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy
17:00 - 17:20 AI-Enhanced Grouped Time-Series Forecasting with Weather and Holiday Effects
Dat Tan Ho, Man Duc Nguyen and Tamás Márton Bérczes
Recognition of GNSS Spoofing in V2I Environments with Physics-Informed Gaussian Process
Tamás Ormándi and Balázs Varga
Incorporating Weather Data Into Machine Learning Models for Estimating Tertiary-sector Activity
Naoto Minakawa and Yoshiyuki Suimon

28th Aug, FRIDAY

09:10 - 09:40
Plenary Talk

Complementary AI Paradigm: Logical Synthesis Model - Neural Mesh
Péter Baranyi
Chair: Attila Gilányi

Room: F01

09:40 - 09:50

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Péter Baranyi
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Balázs Harangi
Session C - Room: 201
Software Technology

Chair: László Szathmáry
09:50 - 10:10 Quantization-Induced Error Propagation: Activation Analysis within the PEP-AI Framework for Sustainable High-Efficiency and Explainable AI
Tamás Menyhárt, András Hajdu and Róbert Lakatos
FreqTextSeg3D: Frequency-Aware Text-Guided 3D Brain Tumour Segmentation via Hierarchical Semantic Decomposition and Dual-Path Cross-Modal Fusion
Biniyam Mulugeta Abuhayi and András Hajdu
Requirements Analysis for the Development of a Mobile Application for Emergency Medication Dosage Calculation
Csaba Sándor Kuki, Balázs Palcsik and Piroska Biró
10:10 - 10:30 EnergyEquity: A Multi-Agent Conversational AI for Personalized Household Energy Poverty Assessment in Hungary
Dat Tan Ho, András Hajdu and Tamás Márton Bérczes
Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning Optimization for Pneumonia Detection Using Evolutionary Search and Successive Halving
Radu-Ionuț Costin, Ștefan Vasile Oniga and Ramona-Iulia Babiciu
A Unified Agentic Development Lifecycle Framework for the Software Industry
Ferenc Héjja, Tamás Bartók and Gergely Kocsis
10:30 - 10:50 Error-Driven Prompt Optimization for Sustainable Tabular Reasoning
Róbert Lakatos, Árpád Pándy and András Hajdu
Lightweight Visual Question Answering in Radiology Domain
Pang Lang Kueh and Wai Lam Hoo
From Turbulence to Take-off: Modernising an airline's Digital Platform with Domain-Driven Design
Tamás Bartók, Ferenc Héjja and Attila Szabó
10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Péter Baranyi
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Thanh-Binh Nguyen
Session C - Room: 201
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Péter Jeszenszky
11:10 - 11:30 Explainability and Verifiability of Artificial Intelligence in ICU Mortality Prediction
Yuqi Chen and Gergely Kovásznai
Accelerated Keystroke Dynamics: An XGBoost Approach to Continuous Biometric Authentication
Erik Pál, András Hajdu and Róbert Lakatos
LLM SQL Cross-Dialect Translation: An Exploratory Study of Form-Content Dialectical Thinking
Arsenij Kroptya and Ihor Mykheliev
11:30 - 11:50 HCGA: A Hybrid Clustering-Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Multi-Constrained Team Formation
Ali Ali, Gergely Kovásznai, Mohammed Abdulhadi and Mustafa Mezaal
Deepfake Image Detection Using Spatial Rich Model Features and Deep Learning Fusion
Adnane Essoufi and Gergő Bogacsovics
A Hybrid Sim-to-Real Framework for Industrial Object Detection Using Synthetic Data Augmentation and Inference-Time Fusion
János Polgár and Gergő Bogacsovics
11:50 - 12:10 Machine Learning-Based Molecular Classification of Endometrial Cancer Using Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Features: A Chinese Population Study
Alshuwaili Dhafer G.Honi, Hakim Bahlok Jebur and László Szathmáry
Towards Robust Arabic Stance Detection: Cross-Domain Generalization and Joint Training for Misinformation Mitigation
Ali Mhrez and Tibor Tajti
Similarity-Aware BERT Model for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction
Dylan Bock, Sinisa Grozdanic, Vladimir Jacimovic and Aleksandar Poleksic
12:10 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30
Plenary Talk

From Data to Decisions: AI, Digital Twins and Integrated Modelling for Climate and Air Quality
Thanh-Binh Nguyen

Chair: Balázs Harangi
Room: F01

14:30 - 14:50

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: János Tóth
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Gergely Kovásznai
Session C - Room: 201
Automata, Logic, and Models of Computation

Chair: György Vaszil
14:50 - 15:10 Pattern-Oriented Fake News Detection via Five-Dimensional Knowledge Graph and Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study on Chinese-Language Media
Yi-An Sung and Chang-Yi Kao
Cross-Dataset Evaluation of Foundation Model-Based Acoustic-Text Fusion for Dementia-Related Speech Analysis
Seyma Derdiyok, Imran Gul, Hamza Osman Ilhan and Gorkem Serbes
A Canonical Rigid Direct-System Representation of Finite Local-Unit-Aligned Totally Ordered Monoids
Sándor Jenei
15:10 - 15:30 Reliability and Failure Assessment of 2D Pose Estimation Methods for Drone-Based Swimmer Video Analytics
Dominik Homoki, Tamás Zsedrovits, György Cserey, András Horváth and László Grand
From Flat Storage to Structured Graphs: Adaptive Memory for Domain-Specific LLM Reasoning
Erick Machungo and Gergő Bogacsovics
Analysis Based Initial Tuning Method for Steering Systems
Dávid Somogyi, Csaba Fazekas and Gábor Szederkényi
15:30 - 15:50 Fusing Semantics and LLM-Driven Emotions by Gated Attention for Implicit Hate Speech Detection
Yuan-Chih Yu
Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Potential Drug Candidates for Alzheimer’s Disease Among Philippine Natural Products
Anne Kelsea Palo, Gielome Martinez and Karylle Cate Tuazon
On Some Extensions of Boolean Grammars
Patrik Adrián
15:50 - 16:00

Coffee Break

  Session A - Room: F01
Virtual Reconstruction and Modeling
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Attila Gilányi
Session B - Room: F0
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: Erzsébet Tóth
Session C - Room: 201
Automata, Logic, and Models of Computation
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications

Chair: György Vaszil
16:00 - 16:20 The Limits of Localized T30 Prediction in Rectangular Rooms: A Residual Architecture Study
Bence Bakos, Csaba Huszty and András Lukács
Enhancing Transformer-Based RGB-T Image Fusion via Hybrid Pixel Upsampling
Bilgesu Örten, Cansel Fıçıcı and Mehmet Cem Çatalbaş
Reaction systems and approximation spaces
Péter Battyányi
16:20 - 16:40 A Descriptive Framework for Archival-Source-Based 3D Architectural Modeling
András Horkai
Generative AI in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Stakeholder Perspectives, Uses, Risks, and Governance
Deddy Gusman, David Aditya Sulistiawan, Nurmalina and Gyöngyi Bujdosó
LLM-Assisted SAT Solver Engineering: A Case Study on Enhancing CSFLOC
Gábor Kusper
16:40 - 17:00 Paradata in Virtual Reconstruction: Towards a Conceptual Model of Transparent Reconstruction
András Horkai
The Invisible Signature: A Stylometric and Probabilistic Approach to Detecting AI-Generated Text in Academic Thesis Introductions
Elyah Frisco Andriantsialo, Volatiana Marielle Ratianantitra and Thomas Mahatody
Comparing evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning algorithms in “mate-in-N” puzzles
Kristóf Kondor and Géza Horváth
17:00 - 17:20 Transformation-Invariant Latent Consistency for Robust 3D Point Cloud Watermarking
Aya Zairi and Róbert Tornai
SNART: Real-Time Translation via ECAPA-TDNN-Based Biometric Speaker Filtering
Gergő Szabó