| time | topic and presenters |
| 9:30—9:40 | Welcome to QR2026! |
| session I: QR in Intelligent Agents |
| 9:40—10:00 | Constructivist Robots Assembling Value-Based Decision Heuristics by Tyler Olson, Alex Gabriel and Carlos Hernandez Corbato |
| 10:00—10:15 | Role-Aware Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots: Modeling and Reasoning about Situational Roles in Semantic Digital Twins by Abdelrhman Bassiouny and Michael Beetz |
| 10:15—10:30 | The Wasserstein Distance for Multigranular Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets by Amal Esmail, Eddy Soria, Jordi Pascual Fontanilles, Antonio Moreno and Aida Valls |
| 10:30—11:00 | coffee break |
| session II: QR Models in Education |
| 11:00—11:20 | Learning about Black Holes and how to Observe them by Constructing a Qualitative Model — A Pilot study by Tessa Hoogma, Joanna Holt and Bert Bredeweg |
| 11:20—11:40 | Supporting Qualitative Model Construction in Open Modelling Tasks by
Marco Kragten, Tessa Hoogma and Bert Bredeweg |
| 11:40—12:00 | Applying the Qualitative Model for Reasoning about 3D perspectives (Q3D) to solve a Spatial Test about Rotations by Martí Ejarque Galindo and Zoe Falomir Llansola |
| 12:00—12:20 | A Qualitative Model for Reasoning about Path and Support by Abhishek Jaiswal and Zoe Falomir |
| 12:30—14:00 | lunch break |
| session III: Natural Language Understanding and QR |
| 14:00—14:20 | Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Reasoning Models to Reason about Cardinal Direction Relations by Orestis-Minas Kapopoulos, Vasileios Kyriakopoulos, Maria Tsourma, Despina-Athanasia Pantazi and Manolis Koubarakis |
| 14:20—14:40 | Qualitative Reasoning and LLMs: Experiments about integrated spatial reasoning using a relation algebra and Graph-based RAG by Reinhard Moratz, Niklas Daute, James Ondiecki, Markus Kattenbeck and Ioannis Giannopoulos |
| 14:40—15:00 | Hybrid LLM-Symbolic NLU for Qualitative Process Frame Generation by Xin Lian and Kenneth Forbus |
| 15:00—15:15 | QSTRBench: A New Benchmark to Evaluate the Ability of Language Models to Reason with Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Calculi — a Summary by Anthony Cohn and Robert Blackwell |
| 15:15—15:30 | RCC-8 as a Benchmark for Diagrammatic Reasoning in Multimodal Foundation Models — a Summary by Robert Blackwell and Anthony Cohn |
| 15:30—16:00 | coffee break |
| 16:00—16:20 | Neurosymbolic Qualitative Model Formulation from Natural Language: An Experiment by Kenneth Forbus |
| 16:20—16:40 | Towards Parameter-Independent Fault Detection Using Qualitative Simulation by Ankita Das, Roxane Koitz-Hristov, Franz Wotawa |
| session IV: Late-Breaking Papers |
| 16:40—16:55 | Towards Qualitative Causal Model Synthesis with Answer Set Programming by Moritz Bayerkuhnlein, Diedrich Wolter, Bert Bredeweg and Marco Kragten |
| 16:55—17:10 | From qualitative representation to executable equations — Applying GarpN to a surface-limited cellulase model by Marco Kragten, Kamal Kansou, Flavien Alonzo, Jan Wielemaker and Bert Bredeweg |
| 17:10—17:25 | Meaningful Intermediate Variables for Model-Driven Explainable AI and Qualitative Reasoning with Grammatical Evolution
by Dominik Sepioło, Antoni Ligęza and Mikołaj Jarosławski |
| 17:25—17:40 | Qualitative Models of Selection Strategies: Possible Approaches and Limitations by Rebecca von Engelhardt, Moritz Bayerkuhnlein and Diedrich Wolter |
| 17:40—18:00 | closing of workshop |
