Accepted Contributions
TAS 2026 accepted 29 contributions: 19 oral presentations and 10 posters. See the Schedule for session times.
Paper Session 1: Authorization, Permissions, and Runtime Guardrails
Thursday, November 5, 11:00 am–12:30 pm
Where the Guarantee Stops: Safe-Delivery Boundaries for Verification-Gated SLM Agents
Narcisse Rufin Kengne Sakeng, Hajar Moudoud, and Zakaria Abou El Houda
Incomparable Minima in Agent Tool Authorization
Xin Xu
Who Authorized That? A Preliminary Benchmark of Third-Party Permission Boundaries in Local LLM Agents
Varshitha Manjunath, Srimonti Dutta, and Akshata Kishore Moharir
Authorization Before Action: Prompt and Runtime Safeguards for Local Medical-Billing Agents
Varshitha Manjunath and Srimonti Dutta
Same Numbers, Stale Permission: Operation-Scoped Receipts for Statistical Agents
Hema Raju Barri and Chandana Charitha Peddinti
Paper Session 2: Security and Federated Learning
Thursday, November 5, 2:45–3:30 pm and 4:00–4:15 pm
Trajectory-Level Security Debt in LLM Coding Agents
Prateek Rajput, Abdoul Kader Kabore, Yewei Song, Mélissa Tessa, Tailia Malloy, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Agentic Small Language Models for Closed-Loop Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection
Abderrahman Elhajjout, Zakaria Abou El Houda, Zahi Jarir, Alan Davoust, and Hajar Moudoud
ATLAS: Adaptive Task-Aware Federated Learning with Heterogeneous LoRA and Split Learning for Edge LLMs
Mahmoud S. Mayaleh, Zakaria Abou El Houda, and Lyes Khoukhi
Internal Coherence Maximization under Decentralized Data
Zhangfei Yang and Aizierjiang Aiersilan
Paper Session 3: Evaluation, Auditing, and Benchmarking
Friday, November 6, 9:45–10:30 am and 11:00–11:30 am
Trace Integrity for LLM Data Agents: Auditing Structured-Data Computation Beyond Answer Accuracy in Real-World Systems
Srimonti Dutta and Akshata Kishore Moharir
Measuring Trust in Agentic Advertising Systems: The ERA Framework and Its Ontology-Grounded Instantiation
Satyajeet Raje and Jose David Aguas Lopes
Who Gets Flagged? The Pluralistic Evaluation Gap in AI Content Watermarking
Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Yuqiao Xu, Wenbiao Li, and Erman Ayday
Does the Agent Follow the Evidence? Counterfactual Auditing for Trustworthy Multimodal Health Agents
Shadman Sakib and Nirmalya Roy
Invalid Is Not Failure: Infrastructure Censoring Bias in Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation
Shilin Chhabra
Paper Session 4: Governance, Accountability, and Human–AI Delegation
Saturday, November 7, 9:00–10:30 am
When Agents Hire Humans: Auditing Accountability Gaps in a Production Marketplace
Pulak Mehta and Rajas Kshirsagar
AIGOps 2.0: A Practical Framework for Continuous EU AI Act Compliance in Enterprise AI Pipelines
Manish Gupta
Agentic AI: Trustworthy Autonomous Decision Making Systems
Kalpan Dharamshi
General-Purpose Agent Orchestrators as Lightweight MLOps Control Planes for Small Teams: A Controlled Feasibility Study
Oshin Anand
Doing Less with More: A First-Principles Exploration of the Suitability of Agentic Computing over Alternative Architectural Choices
Ritvik Garimella, Biplav Srivastava, and Amit Sheth
Poster Session
Lightning talks: Thursday, November 5, 4:15–5:00 pm
Poster session: Friday, November 6, 4:00–5:00 pm (time and location subject to AAAI poster assignment)
Certified Agent Graphs: Compiling Verifiable Trust Invariants into LangGraph Execution
Anand Sakharam Pimparkar
Version-Bound Assurance at Agent Decision Boundaries: Binding Provenance, Execution, and Delegated Authority
Kenneth Aiello
IoTSplit: Teacher-Guided Federated IoT Intrusion Detection Using Small Language Models
Abderrahman Elhajjout, Hajar Moudoud, and Zakaria Abou El Houda
Trusted Warnings, Untrusted Context: Security-UI Preconditioning in Mobile LLM Agents
Mahmoud Nazzal, Muhammad Rabiu, and Yue Xiao
Toward System-Level Test and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems: Assurance, Measurement, and Bounded Trust
Jim Lockett and Elena Charnetzki
Beyond Outcomes: Benchmarking Trace-Derived Metrics for Goal Drift Detection in LLM Agents
Michael Briggs, Nadia Amdemariam, Rosaura Arvizu Guzman, Anna Pham, Lawrence Phan, Vivek Tarapara, and Than Vu
FedCreamCS: Federated Contrastive Representation Ensemble and Aggregation for Concept Segmentation
Qiwei Xiao
Personalized Federated Direct Preference Optimization via LoRA Adapters
Zhanhong Jiang and Soumik Sarkar
Cybernetic and Epistemic: A Missing Vocabulary for Trustworthy Agentic Delegation
Jérémie Lumbroso
Interchangeable Agency: Anticipated Replacement Creates Legibility Pressure in Human–AI Handoffs
Jun Yuan
Accepted contributions are subject to final camera-ready submission and registration requirements. Please see the Call for Participation for details.