Publications

A brief bibliography

Selected peer-reviewed work in AI, decision intelligence, operations research, and AI safety.

  • 11 Conference
  • 3 Preprint
  • 13 Journal
  • 1 Chapter
  1. Preprint

    Mario Brcic, Stjepan Frljic

    (2026)

    The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning

    Preprint

  2. Preprint

    Mario Brcic

    (2025)

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

    arXiv preprint, 2508.05867

  3. Journal

    Juraj Doncevic, Kresimir Fertalj, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac

    (2024)

    Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 50 (04), 900–910

    doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3367126

  4. Journal

    Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza, Jaesik Choi, Roberto Confalonieri, Javier Del Ser, Riccardo Guidotti, Yoichi Hayashi, Francisco Herrera, Andreas Holzinger, Richard Jiang, Hassan Khosravi, Freddy Lecue, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Andres Paez, Wojciech Samek, Johannes Schneider, Timo Speith, Simone Stumpf

    (2024)

    Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions

    Information Fusion, vol. 106

    doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102301

  5. Journal

    Mario Brcic, Roman V. Yampolskiy

    (2023)

    Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey

    ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 56, Issue 1, 1–24

    doi:10.1145/3603371

  6. Journal

    Dalibor Krleza, Boris Vrdoljak, Mario Brcic

    (2021)

    Statistical hierarchical clustering algorithm for outlier detection in evolving data streams

    Machine Learning, Volume 110, pp. 139–184

    doi:10.1007/s10994-020-05905-4

  7. Journal

    Mario Brcic, Marija Katic, Nikica Hlupic

    (2019)

    Planning horizons based proactive rescheduling for stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problems

    European Journal of Operational Research, 273 (1), 58–66

    doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.07.037

  8. Journal

    Dalibor Krleza, Boris Vrdoljak, Mario Brcic

    (2019)

    Latent Process Discovery Using Evolving Tokenized Transducer

    IEEE Access, 7, 169657–169676

    doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2955245

  9. Conference

    Filip Karlo Dosilovic, Mario Brcic, Nikica Hlupic

    (2018)

    Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

    Proceedings of MIPRO 2018 — 41st International Convention on ICT, Electronics and Microelectronics, Rijeka, Croatia, pp. 210–215

    doi:10.23919/MIPRO.2018.8400040

Full chronology

Every publication, grouped by year. For citation counts and live metrics, see Google Scholar.

2026

  1. Conference

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

    Ema Smolic, Mario Brcic, Luka Hobor, Mihael Kovac · MIPRO 2026 · doi

  2. Conference

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

    Luka Hobor, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac, Kristijan Poje · MIPRO 2026 · doi

  3. Preprint

    The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning

    Mario Brcic, Stjepan Frljic · Preprint

  4. Conference

    Large Language Models as Optimizers: A Survey of Direct vs. Tool-Augmented Approaches and Their Performance Frontiers

    Roko Peran, Luka Hobor, Mihael Kovac, Mario Brcic · MIPRO 2026

  5. Journal

    Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Models for Retail Sales Forecasting

    Luka Hobor, Mario Brcic, Lidija Polutnik, Ante Kapetanovic · CRORR · doi

2025

  1. Preprint

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

    Mario Brcic · arXiv

  2. Journal

    Uncovering causal graphs in air traffic control communication logs for explainable root cause analysis

    Agneza Krajna, Ana Sarcevic, Mario Brcic, Kristijan Poje · Automatika · doi

2024

  1. Conference

    Revolutionizing Software Development: Autonomous Software Evolution

    Danijel Mlinaric, Juraj Doncevic, Mario Brcic, Ivica Boticki · MIPRO 2024 · doi

  2. Journal

    Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver

    Juraj Doncevic, Kresimir Fertalj, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac · IEEE TSE · doi

  3. Journal

    Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions

    Luca Longo, Mario Brcic, Federico Cabitza, Jaesik Choi, Roberto Confalonieri, Javier Del Ser, Riccardo Guidotti, Yoichi Hayashi, Francisco Herrera, Andreas Holzinger, Richard Jiang, Hassan Khosravi, Freddy Lecue, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Andres Paez, Wojciech Samek, Johannes Schneider, Timo Speith, Simone Stumpf · Inf. Fusion · doi

  4. Journal

    First Steps towards Efficient Genome Assembly on ARM-Based HPC

    Kristijan Poje, Mario Brcic, Josip Knezovic, Mario Kovac · Electronics · doi

  5. Journal

    Effect of Private Deliberation: Deception of Large Language Models in Game Play

    Kristijan Poje, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac, Marina Bagic Babac · Entropy · doi

2023

  1. Conference

    Challenges in Collective Intelligence: A Survey

    Kristijan Poje, Mario Brcic, Mihael Kovac, Dalibor Krleza · MIPRO 2023 · doi

  2. Journal

    Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey

    Mario Brcic, Roman V. Yampolskiy · ACM CSUR · doi

  3. Conference

    High Performance Computing Reinforcement Learning Framework for Power System Control

    Ivana Damjanovic, Ivica Pavic, Mario Brcic, Roko Jercic · IEEE ISGT 2023 · doi

  4. Journal

    Mask–Mediator–Wrapper: A Revised Mediator–Wrapper Architecture for Heterogeneous Data Source Integration

    Juraj Doncevic, Kresimir Fertalj, Mario Brcic, Agneza Krajna · Appl. Sci. · doi

2022

  1. Journal

    Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach for Autonomous Power Flow Control Using Only Topology Changes

    Ivana Damjanovic, Ivica Pavic, Mate Puljiz, Mario Brcic · Energies · doi

  2. Journal

    Prismal View of Ethics

    Sarah Isufi, Kristijan Poje, Igor Vukobratovic, Mario Brcic · Philosophies · doi

  3. Conference

    Exact solving scheduling problems accelerated by graph neural networks

    Jana Juros, Mario Brcic, Mihael Koncic, Mihael Kovac · MIPRO 2022 · doi

  4. Chapter

    European Processor Initiative

    Mario Kovac, Jean-Marc Denis, Philippe Notton, Etienne Walter, Denis Dutoit, Frank Badstuebner, Stephan C. Stilkerich, Christian Feldmann, Benoit Dinechin, Renaud Stevens, Fabrizio Magugliani, Ricardo Chaves, Josip Knezovic, Daniel Hofman, Mario Brcic, Katarina Vukusic, Agneza Krajna, Leon Dragic, Igor Piljic, Mate Kovac, Branimir Malnar, Alen Duspara · Book chapter · doi

  5. Conference

    Towards Intelligent Compiler Optimization

    Mihael Kovac, Mario Brcic, Agneza Krajna, Dalibor Krleza · Proceedings of MIPRO 2022 — 45th International Convention on ICT, Electronics and Microelectronics, Opatija, Croatia, pp. 948-953 · doi

  6. Preprint

    Explainability in reinforcement learning: perspective and position

    Agneza Krajna, Mario Brcic, Tomislav Lipic, Juraj Doncevic · arXiv · doi

  7. Conference

    Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Updated Perspective

    Agneza Krajna, Mihael Kovac, Mario Brcic, Ana Sarcevic · MIPRO 2022 · doi

2021

  1. Journal

    Statistical hierarchical clustering algorithm for outlier detection in evolving data streams

    Dalibor Krleza, Boris Vrdoljak, Mario Brcic · Mach. Learn. · doi

2019

  1. Journal

    Planning horizons based proactive rescheduling for stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problems

    Mario Brcic, Marija Katic, Nikica Hlupic · EJOR · doi

  2. Journal

    Latent Process Discovery Using Evolving Tokenized Transducer

    Dalibor Krleza, Boris Vrdoljak, Mario Brcic · IEEE Access · doi

2018

  1. Conference

    Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

    Filip Karlo Dosilovic, Mario Brcic, Nikica Hlupic · MIPRO 2018 · doi

2012

  1. Conference

    Resource Constrained Project Scheduling under Uncertainty: A Survey

    Mario Brcic, Damir Kalpic, Kresimir Fertalj · CECIIS 2012