TRUST 2026 – Preliminary Table of Contents

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Responsible aUtonomous SysTems (TRUST 2026)

Frontmatter

Papers

Dynamic Deception: When Pedestrians Team Up to Fool Autonomous Cars
Masoud Jamshidiyan Tehrani, Marco Gabriel, Jinhan Kim, and Paolo Tonella
(USI Lugano, Switzerland)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p1-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844650

Software Project Management with LLM-Based Automation: Coordination, Validation, and Governance in Practice
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, and Cleyton Magalhães
(University of Calgary, Canada; University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA; Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p2-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844651

From Regulation to Innovation: Mining High-Impact AI Patents Grounded in the EU AI Act and Korea’s AI Basic Act
Jimin Kim, Ho Jun Kang, and Jaehyun Lee
(Software Policy & Research Institute, Republic of Korea)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p3-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844652

Closed-World Trustworthy Copilots for Legal and Regulatory Text
Monalisha Ojha and Pragya Shrey Mishra
(University of Mannheim, Germany; Pillai College of Engineering, India)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p8-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844654

Automated Counterfactual Scenario Generation for Fairness Assessment of Large Language Models: The ScenGen Framework
Alessandra Parziale, Antonio D'Auria, Daniele Pio Scaparra, and Valeria Pontillo
(Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy; University of Salerno, Italy)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p32-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844655

On Resilience in Multi-agent Systems for Software Engineering
Sandra Mitrović, Cezar Sas, and Matteo Salani
(IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p41-p (type: Short Paper (5 pages)) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844656

Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Discriminatory Test Generation
Sadia Afrin Mim, Fatema Tuz Zohra, and Brittany Johnson
(George Mason University, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p69-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844658

	Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Discriminatory Test Generation: Video Recording of the presentation
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Explaining LLM Adaptation Decisions in Self-Adaptive Systems via Faithful Input Attribution
Balint Mate, Vincenzo Scotti, Diego Perez-Palacin, and Raffaela Mirandola
(FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany; KIT, Germany; Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p73-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844659

Metamorphic Stress Testing of Vision-Language Components for Time-Critical Autonomous Systems
Arman Chhetri and Yinxi Liu
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Publisher's Version Published Artifact Artifacts Available Article: asews26trustmain-p76-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844660

Metamorphic Stress Testing of Vision-Language Components for Time-Critical Autonomous Systems (doi:10.5281/zenodo.21497533): This repository is the replication artifact for the TRUST workshop paper on metamorphic stress testing of vision-language model (VLM) behavior and timing contracts. It contains only the two evaluated VLMs' attack inputs, recorded benchmark trials, analysis code, and paper materials.

Fairness Guardrails for Autonomous Agents: A Trustworthiness-by-Design Vision from Social Cybersecurity
Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Vita Santa Barletta, Vito Bavaro, and Ronnie de Souza Santos
(University of Bari, Italy; University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy; University of Calgary, Canada)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p89-p (type: Short Paper (5 pages)) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844661

AgentChaosBench: Benchmarking External Fault Detection and Localization in Agentic Systems
Chenkai Zhang, Yiran Li, Yifang Tian, Michail Bachras, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen
(University of Toronto, Canada)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p97-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844662

Can Open-Weight LLMs Predict Test Outcomes from Traces? A Cross-Subject Boundary Study on Tests4Py
Giuliano Ricardo Rasper, Tural Mammadov, Marius Smytzek, and Andreas Zeller
(Saarland University, Germany; CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany)

Publisher's Version Article: asews26trustmain-p99-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843782.3844663

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