Preliminary Program

IIKI 2026 & AI-DEFIT 2026
29 September–2 October 2026 · Bled, Slovenia

The programme combines the 14th International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things with AI-DEFIT sessions. Parallel presentations are held in Hall A and Hall B, with an online session in the Online Hall.

Tuesday 29 September 2026

Tuesday timetable
TimeHall AHall BOnline Hall
16:00–19:00Registration
19:00–20:00Informal get-together

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Wednesday timetable
TimeHall AHall BOnline Hall
08:00–12:00Registration
09:00–09:15Opening
09:15–10:00Keynote: Hans-Peter SchönerThe Role of Artificial Intelligence for Tactical Safety: Focus on Cautious & Cooperative Vehicles
10:00–10:45Keynote: Roberto RenòAn anatomy of asset returns
10:45–11:15Coffee break
11:15–12:45Connected and Automated Driving 1IIKITrack AAI-DEFITOnline Session 1IIKI and AI-DEFIT
12:45–13:45Lunch
13:45–14:00AI-Driven UAV Innovation: Integrating Industrial Practice and Industry-Education Collaboration for Full-Domain Unmanned Systems
14:00–15:30Connected and Automated Driving 2IIKIBig Data and Artificial Intelligence 1IIKI · 6 papersOnline Session 2IIKI and AI-DEFIT
15:30–16:00Coffee break
16:00–17:30AI and Data Analytics for IoTIIKIBig Data and Artificial Intelligence 2IIKI · 6 papers—
19:00Conference dinner

Presentation details

Connected and Automated Driving 111:15–12:45 · Hall A · IIKI · 5 papers · Chair: Jaka Sodnik
  1. Evaluating the Effects of Human–Machine Interfaces on Passenger Physiological Comfort in Highly Automated Vehicles
  2. Towards DSS-Specific Personas: A Methodology for Characterizing Decision Support System Users
  3. An Interdisciplinary approach for Training, Evaluating and Monitoring CCAM Remote Operators
  4. Explainable AI in Ambiguous Driving Scenarios: User Trust and Satisfaction in Visual, Textual and Auditory Interfaces
  5. Electrodermal Activity Tracks Simulator Sickness Within Individuals: A Pilot Study in an Automated Driving Simulator
Track A11:15–12:45 · Hall B · AI-DEFIT · 4 papers · Chair: Junhuan Zhang
  1. Can the Chinese stock market effectively price corporate innovation?
  2. Computing Power, Synthetic Data, and Welfare in the Generative-AI Economy
  3. Does Digital Finance Promote More Equal Distribution of Firm Size? Evidence from China
  4. The Economic Growth Effect of Integrated Development of Education, Technology and Talents
Online Session 111:15–12:45 · Online Hall · IIKI and AI-DEFIT · 5 papers · Chair: Grega Jakus
  1. AutoDiscover-IoT: Validation-First Auditing of LLM-Generated Smart-Home Rule Hypotheses
  2. CR-DMLSA: Course Recommendation via Denoised Mamba and Low-Rank Decomposed Self-Attention
  3. Establishing a Multi-Dimensional Risk Framework over the Full Lifecycle of Stablecoins
  4. EduEdgeAgent: An Edge-Based Large Language Model Agent and Curriculum-Aware Retrieval Method for Privacy-Controlled Vocational Information Technology Classrooms
  5. A WeightedAdd Dual-Branch Network with a 3D CNN Stem for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Connected and Automated Driving 214:00–15:30 · Hall A · IIKI · 5 papers · Chair: Kristina Stojmenova Pečečnik
  1. TAPR: Temporal Activity-aware Route Planning for Multi-Stop Navigation
  2. Identifying Short-Term Driving Stability Patterns from Simulator Telemetry
  3. Multimodal Before-and-After Field Evaluation of a Curve-Guidance Infrastructure Intervention for Motorcyclists on a Rural Road
  4. Challenges in Root Cause Analysis of Connected Autonomous Vehicle Accidents
  5. An Echolocation-Inspired Call-and-Answer Loop for Situational Awareness in Automated Driving: EchoDrive
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence 114:00–15:30 · Hall B · IIKI · 6 papers · Chair: Ruidong Zhang
  1. CAGE-Prompt: Constraint-Aware Black-Box Prompt Optimization
  2. Dense Retrieval and Large Language Model Reranking for Temporal Legal Case Retrieval
  3. LawEvolve: Statute-Grounded Calibration for Temporal Legal Judgment Prediction
  4. Hierarchical Planning and Semantic-Aware Pruning for Long Text Generation
  5. A Comparative Evaluation of Large Language Models for Context-Aware Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages
  6. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Methodologies, and Applications
Online Session 214:00–15:30 · Online Hall · IIKI and AI-DEFIT · 6 papers · Chair: Yanhui Guo
  1. Behavioral-Biometric Fraud Detection for Real-Time Digital Payments: A Risk-Adaptive Fusion Framework and Cross-Corpus Proof of Concept
  2. AI-Native Economics: Machine Economy and Global Trade Logic Reconstruction under the Digital New Quality Productivity Framework
  3. Adapting CPU Dynamic Scene Graph Generation for Resource-Constrained Edge Scenarios
  4. From Extended Reality to Virtual-Physical Fusion: A Survey of Enabling Technologies and Human-Centric Applications
  5. Security architecture of the European C-ITS trust framework
  6. FinTech and Firm Total Factor Productivity: The Within-Firm Resource Allocation Channel
AI and Data Analytics for IoT16:00–17:30 · Hall A · IIKI · 6 papers · Chair: Qi Li
  1. Capsule-Based Time Series Compression and Classification for Satellite IoT
  2. MineSeg: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Multimodal Large Language Models for Underground Mine Semantic Segmentation
  3. Fusing Knowledge Distillation and Patch-based Representation for Anomaly Detection
  4. An Efficient Feature-Fusion YOLO Detector for Steel Surface Defect Detection
  5. Understanding Communication Service Users’ Satisfaction Using Hidden Markov Models
  6. SparseRoute: Normal-Level Residual Strength Routing for Post-hoc 3D Anomaly Score Fusion
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence 216:00–17:30 · Hall B · IIKI · 6 papers · Chairs: Matija Dodović and Janko Tufegdžić
  1. Mapping Cross-Firm Exposure with AI-Derived Business Networks: Evidence from Negative A-Share Announcements
  2. Distributional Calibration of LLM-Based Agentic Populations for Complex Social System Simulation
  3. Multi-Agent Team Size Optimization via Coordination-Cost and Capability-Redundancy Balancing
  4. Cognitive-Load-Aware Dynamic Allocation for Human-Multi-Agent Collaboration
  5. Foundation-Assisted Weakly Supervised Learning for Bridge Corrosion Semantic Segmentation
  6. Benchmarking Quantized LoRA for Vision Transformers on VTAB-1k

Thursday 1 October 2026

Thursday timetable
TimeHall AHall BOnline Hall
09:00–09:30Keynote: Dražen DraškovićBig Data and AI in Action: Decoding Hate Speech and Propaganda in Low-Resource Language
09:30–10:00Keynote: Ivana LuknarSocio-political effects of advanced technologies
10:00–10:30Keynote: Xin WangSequential Recommendation under Noisy and Biased User Behaviors
10:30–12:00E-Health, Mobile Health, Wellbeing, and Sport TechnologiesIIKITrack B and Special SessionAI-DEFIT—
12:00–12:30Coffee & Snack Break
12:30–14:00Intelligent Sensing, Security, Privacy, Cloud and Edge ComputingIIKICyber-Physical Systems and Smart Environments for IoTIIKI—

Presentation details

E-Health, Mobile Health, Wellbeing, and Sport Technologies10:30–12:00 · Hall A · IIKI · 6 papers · Chair: Sara Stančin
  1. Applied Artificial Intelligence for Cardiovascular Disease: The STRATIFYHF Decision Support System
  2. AI-Assisted Calibration of Electronic Apex Locator Thresholds Using Standardized Endodontic Impedance Phantoms
  3. Wrist-Worn Multimodal Recognition of Desk-Based Learning and Working States
  4. Automatic Detection of Corrupted Segments in Golf Swing Recordings
  5. A Single Hand-Mounted Inertial Measurement Unit for Automatic Front Crawl Stroke Phase Detection and Swimming Technique Assessment
  6. Real-Time Haptic Feedback for Lumbar Rotation During Front Crawl: A Two-Participant Feasibility Study With and Without a Snorkel
Track B and Special Session10:30–12:00 · Hall B · AI-DEFIT · 5 papers · Chair: Yezhou Sha
  1. Forecasting Downside Betas with Machine Learning Models
  2. AI-generated Report, Information Risk and Stock Return
  3. Positive Put–Call Disparity in China's ETF Options: Directional Demand and T+1 Settlement
  4. Insider trading Financial Forensics
  5. Recent Developments in agent-based modeling in cryptocurrency markets
Intelligent Sensing, Security, Privacy, Cloud and Edge Computing12:30–14:00 · Hall A · IIKI · 4 papers · Chair: Timotej Gruden
  1. Validation of One-Way Channel Reconstruction in Phase-Based Ranging
  2. A Real-Time IoT Architecture for Detecting Human Engagement with a Mobile Robot
  3. Secure PDF Preview via Locked-Down Image Conversion: A Fast, Deployable Docker-Based Approach with System Font Support
  4. Architectural Exploration and Performance Estimation of a Fully Pipelined FPGA Architecture for Informed-RRT*
Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Environments for IoT12:30–14:00 · Hall B · IIKI · 4 papers · Chair: Xiangbo Kong
  1. An Agent-Based Model for Failure Recovery in Power Grids
  2. A Position on Efficient Global Perception for Indoor Drone Depth Estimation
  3. Towards Intelligent Construction Safety Lighting: A Perspective on IoT Retrofitting, Localization, and Connectivity
  4. Open-Source Multi-Layer Communication and Monitoring System for Search and Rescue Operations

Friday 2 October 2026

Friday timetable
TimeHall AHall BOnline Hall
09:00–12:00Choice between:
  • Company visit
  • Guided tour of Bled (limited availability)
  • Hiking tour around Bled Lake
  • Visit Bled Vintgar Gorge (self-pay)