activity
20202026
most citedExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions

544 citations · 586 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

13 papers

cs.CY2026

Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes

Bartol Bućan, Nikola Sočec, Sarah Isufi +5

Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass. But that resting point barely matters in deployment: a model must land som…

cs.SE2026

AI-Assisted Unit Test Writing and Test-Driven Code Refactoring: A Case Study

Ema Smolic, Mario Brcic, Luka Hobor +1

Many software systems originate as prototypes or minimum viable products (MVPs), developed with an emphasis on delivery speed and responsiveness to changing requirements rather tha…

cs.AI2026

Bayesian Elicitation with LLMs: Model Size Helps, Extra "Reasoning" Doesn't Always

Luka Hobor, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac +1

Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as alternatives to human experts for estimating unknown quantities with associated uncertainty, a process known as Bayesian elicitat…

cs.CY2025

The Memory Wars: AI Memory, Network Effects, and the Geopolitics of Cognitive Sovereignty

Mario Brcic

The advent of continuously learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants marks a paradigm shift from episodic interactions to persistent, memory-driven relationships. This paper…

cs.LG2025

Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Models for Retail Sales Forecasting

Luka Hobor, Mario Brcic, Lidija Polutnik +1

Accurate demand forecasting is critical for brick-and-mortar retailers to optimize inventory management and minimize costs. This study evaluates statistical baselines, tree-based e…

cs.SE2025

Bidirectionalization For The Common People

Juraj Dončević, Mario Brčić, Danijel Mlinarić

This paper presents an innovative approach to applying bidirectional transformations (BX) in practice. To introduce BX to a wider audience of technologists, engineers, and research…

cs.AI2023★ 544 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions

Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza +16

As systems based on opaque Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to flourish in diverse real-world applications, understanding these black box models has become paramount. In respo…

cs.SE2022★ 3 cited

Mask-Mediator-Wrapper architecture as a Data Mesh driver

Juraj Dončević, Krešimir Fertalj, Mario Brčić +1

The data mesh is a novel data management concept that emphasises the importance of a domain before technology. The concept is still in the early stages of development and many effo…

cs.SE2022★ 4 cited

Mask-Mediator-Wrapper: A revised mediator-wrapper architecture for heterogeneous data source integration

Juraj Dončević, Krešimir Fertalj, Mario Brčić +1

This paper deals with the mediator-wrapper architecture. It is an important architectural pattern that enables a more flexible and modular architecture in opposition to monolithic…

cs.CY2022

Prismal view of ethics

Sarah Isufi, Kristijan Poje, Igor Vukobratovic +1

We shall have a hard look at ethics and try to extract insights in the form of abstract properties that might become tools. We want to connect ethics to games, talk about the perfo…

cs.AI2022★ 16 cited

Explainability in reinforcement learning: perspective and position

Agneza Krajna, Mario Brcic, Tomislav Lipic +1

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been embedded into many aspects of people's daily lives and it has become normal for people to have AI make decisions for them. Reinforcement learn…

cs.AI2021★ 19 cited

Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey

Mario Brcic, Roman V. Yampolskiy

An impossibility theorem demonstrates that a particular problem or set of problems cannot be solved as described in the claim. Such theorems put limits on what is possible to do co…

cs.CY2020

AI safety: state of the field through quantitative lens

Mislav Juric, Agneza Sandic, Mario Brcic

Last decade has seen major improvements in the performance of artificial intelligence which has driven wide-spread applications. Unforeseen effects of such mass-adoption has put th…