ICCBR-WS-DC 2026
Workshop and Doctoral Consortium Proceedings of ICCBR 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: This is a combined volume that includes the workshop proceedings and Doctoral Consortium proceedings of the 34rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2026) held from August 13 - August 16 2026, in Bremen, Germany. There were 16 papers submitted for peer-review to the workshop and the Doctoral Consortium. Out of these, 13 papers were accepted for this combined volume.

1st Workshop on Memory-Based Reasoning for Responsible GenAI

• Preface - 1st Workshop on Memory-Based Reasoning for Responsible GenAI 1
• Can LLMs Reason with Case-Based Structure? Model-Dependent Effects of CBR-Inspired Decomposition on AI Risk Assessment (Short Paper) 2-9
  Gareth McConomy, Raymond Bond, David Glass, Jun Liu, Holly Toner
• XAI in Genomics with LLM Generated Explanations in Oncology 10-20
  Isabelle Bichindaritz, Shazveen Saleem, Leszek Kotula
• Applying Open-Weight Models and Case-Based Reasoning to Local Document Classification Tasks 21-33
  Joseph Kendall-Morwick
• Capturing LLM Cases for RAG Reuse (Short Paper) 34-41
  Lake Yin, David Leake
• PACE-CBR: A Pose-Aware Conversational Case-Based Exercise Coach 42-53
  Pedram Salimi, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji, Truong Dang, Vihanga Wijayasekara, Kay Cooper
• AlignLLM: Addressing Short Answer Limitations in LLM-as-a-Judge Systems 54-64
  Ramitha Abeyratne, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Kyle Martin, Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji
• Agentic RAG for Case-Based Adaptation 65-77
  Tolga Tel, Mirjam Minor

ICCBR Doctoral Consortium 2026

• Preface - ICCBR Doctoral Consortium 2026 78-79
• Towards Interpretable Case-Based Reasoning for Acoustic Signal Classification under Low-Data Constraints (Short Paper) 80-85
  Cyprien Pankowski
• Exploring Case-Based Reasoning for Multivariate Time Series Classification – Application to Music Emotion Recognition (Short Paper) 86-89
  Erwan Diebold
• Retrieval-Augmented Case-Based Reasoning for Trustworthy Document Understanding at Scale (Short Paper) 90-94
  Lasal Jayawardena
• AI Copilot for FEL Experiments (Short Paper) 95-100
  Mahmoud Ajami
• Towards Explainable Hybrid Similarity for Cybersecurity Incident Retrieval (Short Paper) 101-105
  Marc Krüger
• Leveraging Generative AI Tasks Using CBR Methods with Structural Knowledge (Short Paper) 106-110
  Tolga Tel