Conference Program - ICEDEG 2026

08h00 - 09h00

Registration Desk (Ground floor)

09h00 - 09h05

ICEDEG 2026 Conference Opening

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Ramos Pinto - President of the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), University of Lisbon

Room: Auditorium Óscar Soares Barata (Ground floor)

09h05 - 09h50

Keynote 1:

Prof. Dr. Luís Soares Barbosa

Room: Auditorium Óscar Soares Barata (Ground floor)

09h45 - 10h00

Break

Track A: Public administration transformation

Chair: Saleem Zougbi

Room: Sala Belém (Library First floor)

Track B: Smart cities, sustainability, and urban data

Chair: Wilson Valdez-Solis

Room: Sala Tejo (Library Second floor)

Track C: Procurement, RegTech, and public finance analytics

Chair: Lorena Recalde

Room: Sala Museu (Library Third floor)

10h00 - 10h20

Rui Vitorino et al: Balanced Scorecard Ontology Implementation in Portuguese Public Administration: An Empirical Study at the Secretaria-Geral do Governo

Paulina Duruye et al: Smart Waste Management for Urban Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Technology and Governance Integration

Sandro Suter et al: RegTech for Bid-Rigging: A Fuzzy-Logic Screening Approach

10h20 - 10h40

Sérgio Resende & Gonçalo Paiva Dias: Between Routine and Digital Innovation: Understanding Resistance in the Justice Sector

Mathias Rusche et al: Estimating Capability Impacts of Urban Digitalization Measures: Introducing ECI-UDM

Isaac Amarilla et al: Lexical and LLM-Based Representations for Public Tender Outcome Prediction: A Comparative Study

10h40 - 11h00

Nico Gießmann et al: Bureaucrats are Philanthropists: A Survey on Player Types in Germany's Public Administration

Jhonny Pincay et al: From Structured Data to Semantic Insight: A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Swiss Traffic Safety Analysis

Gerardo Cabrera et al: A Graph-Based Methodology for Detecting Collusion Risk Networks and Political-Business Ties in Public Procurement in Paraguay

11h00 - 11h10

Coffee Break – Espaço Ágora (1st floor)

Room: Sala Belém

Room: Sala Tejo

Room: Sala Museu

11h10 - 12h30

Tutorial 1: From Measurement to Strategy: Making Sense of E-Government Benchmark Results

João Martins et al

Tutorial 2: Emerging Markets Innovations: The Role of Government in Fintech Ecosystems

Giulia Ajmone Marsan

Tutorial 3: Cognitive Healthcare, Heart Simulations, and AI-based Enhancements for Health and Well-being

Agusti Solanas et al

12h30 - 14h00

Lunch Break (Cafeteria – 1st floor)

14h00 - 14h50

Keynote 2:

Prof. Dr. Cansu Canca

Room: Auditorium Óscar Soares Barata (Ground floor)

14h50 - 15h00

Break

Track D: Digital democracy and social media

Chair: Yang Lu

Room: Sala Belém (Library First floor)

Track E: Healthcare and well-being innovation

Chair: José Mancera

Room: Sala Tejo (Library Second floor)

Track F: AI-enabled education and active learning

Chair: Ludovico Papalia

Room: Sala Museu (Library Third floor)

15h00 - 15h20

Or Krispil and Azi Lev-On: The Challenge is the Message: Uses and Gratifications across Positive, Neutral, and Negative Social Media Challenges

Daniel Nubayele et al: Smart Healthcare Initiatives: A Comparative Analysis of four European Smart Cities

Karina Mendoza et al: Trends of the creativity and augmented learning with Artificial Intelligence Tools

15h20 - 15h40

Gonçalo Paiva Dias: Mayoral candidates and national leaders on social media: similar discourses, different impacts

Patricia Acosta-Vargas et al: Transforming Last-Mile Healthcare Logistics through an Accessible Mobile-UAV Ecosystem for Medication Delivery

Joshua Zaruma-Game et al: When Generative AI Meets Playful Learning: Understanding Emotional and Social Experiences of University Students

15h40 - 16h00

Mayasa Jardali et al: Human vs. AI Influencers: Comparing Audience Engagement with Identical Content on Instagram

Alexander Toala et al: A Review of Deep Learning Models and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Pathology Recognition

Luis Aguas-Bucheli et al: A Cyclical Action Research Approach to Active Learning in Data Structures

16h00 - 16h20

Coffee Break (Espaço Ágora – 1st floor)

Poster Session (Espaço Ágora – 1st floor)

Chair: Luis Terán and Jhonny Pincay

16h20 - 17h20

1. Marcelo de Paiva Guimaraes et al: Hierarchical edge-cloud scheduling for sustainable education under limited connectivity
2. Dax Navarrete et al: Toward Computationally Efficient AI: A Comparative Study of Optimization Paradigms in DNN Training
3. Lucas Dantas et al: On-Demand National Education Program Eligibility: Redesigning Batch Pipelines with FaaS through Event-Driven Architecture
4. Joana Carvalho et al: Unpacking the Factors Behind Municipal Web Presence Performance
5. Diego Macrini: Toward Controlled Experiments in Democratic Governance
6. Yang Lu et al: Synthetic Immigration Decision
7. José Carlos Vaz et al: Exploring AI-based political functionalities: Towards a typology for online participation in smart cities
8. Alejandro Aldas-Alarcon et al: Mitigation of Artificial Intelligence Technical Debt and its Impact on the Success of Institutional Information Systems during the Digital Transformation of Higher Education
9. José Asencio Mera et al: When flexibility backfires: A time-series analysis of student performance indicators under course failure policy reform in a public higher education institution
10. Jennifer Avilés-Monroy et al: ¡ajá! VR: Assessing the Educational Viability of the Virtual Reality Science Park

19h00 - 21h00

Gala Dinner at ISCSP (Sala Monsanto - Ground floor)

09h00 - 10h00

Registration Desk (Ground floor)

Track G: Legal informatics and legislative participation

Chair: Vera Spitzer

Room: Sala Belém (Library First floor)

Track H: Digital-government architecture and service delivery

Chair: Nico Gießmann

Room: Sala Tejo (Library Second floor)

Room: Sala Museu (Library Third floor)

10h00 - 10h20

Simone Vagnoni & Monica Palmirani: Enabling Traceable eParticipation in Legislative Processes Using Akoma Ntoso

Aluisio Igor Rêgo Fontes et al: Managing Complexity at a National Scale: Architecture and Engineering of a Large-Scale Public Benefit Payment System

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

10h20 - 10h40

Baizid Al Hamid et al: Automating Legal Statute Matching in Online Petition Systems

Alain Sandoz and Léa Stiefel: Beyond Reference Architecture & EA in Digital Government: Evidence-Based Design Using 3M+S

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

10h40 - 11h00

John F. Brüne: From Text to Knowledge: An AKN-XML Pipeline for Cross-Jurisdictional IP Law Comparison

Sebastian Esquivel & Mariuxi Bruzza: An Integrated Artificial Intelligence-Based Model for Automatic Classification and Assignment of IT Service Desk Tickets

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

11h00 - 11h10

Coffee Break (Espaço Ágora – 1st floor)

Track I: Privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity

Chair: Verónica Duarte

Room: Sala Belém (Library First floor)

Room: Sala Tejo (Library Second floor)

Room: Sala Museu (Library Third floor)

11h10 - 12h30

Jorge Miño et al: Towards Real-Time Anonymization of Unstructured Data with Deep Learning: A Privacy-Preserving Framework Prototype

Tutorial 4: Beyond E-Government: Towards Intelligent and Collaborative Urban Governance

Hatem Ben Sta

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

11h10 - 12h30

Gustavo A. Alcívar et al: Auditing the Treatment of Personal Identifiable Information using a Blockchain-based Architecture

Tutorial 4: Beyond E-Government: Towards Intelligent and Collaborative Urban Governance

Hatem Ben Sta

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

11h10 - 12h30

Jukka Ruohonen: Geographic Dependencies of Cyber Security: Open Source Cyber Threat Intelligence from a Digital Sovereignty Perspective

Tutorial 4: Beyond E-Government: Towards Intelligent and Collaborative Urban Governance

Hatem Ben Sta

Workshop: Digital Memory and Archives in Crises

Bushra Ebadi et al

12h30 - 14h00

Lunch Break (Cafeteria – 1st floor)

14h00 - 14h50

Keynote 3: Dr. Qusai Al-Shatti

Room: Auditorium Óscar Soares Barata (Ground floor)

14h50 - 15h00

Break

Track J: Agentic and citizen-facing government AI

Chair: Jhonny Pincay

Room: Sala Belém (Library First floor)

Track K: Trustworthy and governed AI

Chair: Jukka Ruohonen

Room: Sala Tejo (Library Second floor)

Track L: Transparency, accountability, and decision support

Chair: Denys Flores

Room: Sala Museu (Library Third floor)

15h00 - 15h20

Dmytro Khutkyy: Benchmarking the Agentic State: Early Metrics and Qualitative Evaluation of Ukraine's Diia.AI

Verónica Duarte Martínez et al: Evidence-Grounded Generative Narratives for Scientific Profiles: A Traceable and Auditable Framework for Trustworthy AI

Tomas Brand Sastre et al: A Query-Aware RAG-Based Conversational Agent for Voting Advice Applications

15h20 - 15h40

Ahmet Kaplan: GovAI-Pipe: A Layered AI Governance Pipeline for Citizen-Facing AI in Turkey's e-Government Gateway

Jaime Meza et al: Methodological Governance for AI Regulation in Developing Countries: The Case of Ecuador

Andreza Santos de Santana et al: Language Model Analysis for Text-to-SQL: A Case Study in Public Transparency

15h40 - 16h00

Kuang-Ting Tai & Ivan P. Lee: AI-Powered Government Innovation and Public Perceptions: Effects on Budget Support, Trust, and Blame Attribution

Nour Diallo et al: Governing the Agentic State: Agentic Fault Tolerance (AFT) for AI in eGov and eDemocracy

Daniel Wessel et al: Making Data Flows Visible: User-Centered Prototypes for Explaining Data Collection and Sharing in Public Administration

16h00 - 16h20

Coffee Break (Espaço Ágora – 1st floor)

Poster Session (Espaço Ágora – 1st floor)

Chair: Luis Terán and Jhonny Pincay

16h20 - 17h20

1. David Robredo Manuel et al: Design and Validation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques for a Trustworthy Conversational Assistant
2. Christian Chassot et al: Public Managers’ Attitudes Towards Biometric Systems: An Exploratory Cluster Analysis
3. Johanna Reyes-Reinoso et al: Indicators of open government pillars in Latin American municipalities: systematic review
4. Patricio Zambrano et al: LLM-Powered Brute Force Attacks: An Iterative SSDLC Approach for Authentication Process Evasion
5. Denise Oliveira: Mapping EU Sustainability Regulations and Their Governance Impact on Generative AI Firms
6. Wilson Valdez Solis: Empowering Greener AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Energy-Efficient Federated Learning Systems
7. Ludovico Papalia: The Emergence of the Digital Euro: DLT-Inspired Design Principles and Tiered Architecture for Balancing Privacy and Regulatory Compliance
8. Andres Larco et al: A Machine Learning Approach for Poverty Classification Using Household Living Conditions Data: Evidence from Ecuador
9. Lorena Recalde et al: A Lifecycle-Based Vulnerability Governance Framework for Institutional Web Platforms
10. Anna-Katharina Dhungel et al: Overreliance by Design? The Influence of AI System Interface Choices on Automation Bias in Administration
11. Enrique Pelaez et al: Comparative Analysis of Radiomics Based Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Multiclass Parkinson’s Disease Classification

17h20 - 18h00

Closing Cocktail and Sneak Peek at ICEDEG 2027 – Espaço Ágora (1st floor)