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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has gained widespread adoption in corporate organizations, streamlining work processes while also introducing additional maintenance tasks. Effective governance of RPA can be achieved through the reusability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Petr Prucha , Peter Madzik

Conducting a systematic review (SR) is comprised of multiple tasks: (i) collect documents (studies) that are likely to be relevant from digital libraries (eg., PubMed), (ii) manually read and label the documents as relevant or irrelevant,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Grace E. Lee , Aixin Sun

As reinforcement learning (RL) deployments expand into safety-critical domains, existing evaluation methods fail to systematically identify hazards arising from the black-box nature of neural network enabled policies and distributional…

In the medical domain, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) attempts to collect all empirical evidence, that fit pre-specified eligibility criteria, in order to answer a specific research question. The process of preparing an SLR consists…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Athanasios Lagopoulos , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are at the heart of evidence-based research, setting the foundation for future research and practice. However, producing good quality timely contributions is a challenging and highly cognitive endeavor,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Maisie Badami , Marcos Baez , Shayan Zamanirad , Wei Kang

Reinforcement Learning and, recently, Deep Reinforcement Learning are popular methods for solving sequential decision-making problems modeled as Markov Decision Processes. RL modeling of a problem and selecting algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Reza Refaei Afshar , Joaquin Vanschoren , Uzay Kaymak , Rui Zhang , Yaoxin Wu , Wen Song , Yingqian Zhang

The creation of systematic literature reviews (SLR) is critical for analyzing the landscape of a research field and guiding future research directions. However, retrieving and filtering the literature corpus for an SLR is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Joos , Daniel A. Keim , Maximilian T. Fischer

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a critical tool for optimization challenges within automation, leading to significant advancements in several areas. This review article examines the current landscape of RL within automation, with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal

The rapid growth of scientific publications has made it increasingly difficult to keep literature reviews comprehensive and up-to-date. Though prior work has focused on automating retrieval and screening, the writing phase of systematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Gregory Hok Tjoan Go , Khang Ly , Anders Søgaard , Amin Tabatabaei , Maarten de Rijke , Xinyi Chen

This research pioneers the use of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs), presenting a significant and novel contribution in integrating AI to enhance academic research methodologies. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Teo Susnjak , Peter Hwang , Napoleon H. Reyes , Andre L. C. Barczak , Timothy R. McIntosh , Surangika Ranathunga

The broader goal of this research, on the one hand, is to obtain the State of the Art in Automated Test Production (ATP), to find the open questions and related problems and to track the progress of researchers in the field, and on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-04 José Marcos Gomes , Luis Alberto Vieira Dias

From ancient water wheels to robotic process automation (RPA), automation technology has evolved throughout history to liberate human beings from arduous tasks. Yet, RPA struggles with tasks needing human-like intelligence, especially in…

Context: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become standard practise as part of software engineering research, although their quality varies. To build on the reviews, both for future research and industry practice, they need to be of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Muhammad Usman , Nauman bin Ali , Claes Wohlin

The rapid development of science and technology has been accompanied by an exponential growth in peer-reviewed scientific publications. At the same time, the review of each paper is a laborious process that must be carried out by subject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Weizhe Yuan , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

The value of a systematic secondary study (a systematic mapping study (SMS) or a systematic literature review (SLR)) comes, directly, from its systematic nature. The formal, well-defined, objective and unbiased process guarantees that the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 José L. Barros-Justo , Luisa Rincón , Ángela Villota , Wesley K. G. Assunção

Systematic literature reviews (SLR) have been increasingly conducted in software engineering and they provide significant benefits in terms of summarizing the state of the research. The process of conducting SLR is complex, involving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Vinicius dos Santos , Rick Kazman , Rafael Capilla , Elisa Yumi Nakagawa

As businesses increasingly rely on automation to streamline operations, the limitations of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have become apparent, particularly its dependence on expert knowledge and inability to handle complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Laura Minkova , Jessica López Espejel , Taki Eddine Toufik Djaidja , Walid Dahhane , El Hassane Ettifouri

Robotic process automation (RPA) and its next evolutionary stage, intelligent process automation, promise to drive improvements in efficiencies and process outcomes. However, how can business leaders evaluate how to integrate intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Vinod Muthusamy , Merve Unuvar , Hagen Völzer , Justin D. Weisz

Peer review is a widely accepted mechanism for research evaluation, playing a pivotal role in academic publishing. However, criticisms have long been leveled at this mechanism, mostly because of its poor efficiency and low reproducibility.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jialiang Lin , Jiaxin Song , Zhangping Zhou , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Systematic Literature Reviews aim at investigating current approaches to conclude a research gap or determine a futuristic approach. They represent a significant part of a research activity, from which new concepts stem. However, with the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Nada Sahlab , Hesham Kahoul , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich