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7 Citations
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Task Automation Intelligent Agents: A Review

  • Abdul Wali,
  • Saipunidzam Mahamad and
  • Suziah Sulaiman

As technological advancements increase exponentially, mobile phones become smarter with machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. These advancements have allowed mobile phone users to perform most of their daily routine tasks on mobile...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,696 Views
31 Pages

10 November 2025

Bug reports in open-source projects are often incomplete or low in quality, which reduces maintenance efficiency. To address this issue, we propose AgentReport, a multi-agent pipeline based on large language models (LLMs). AgentReport integrates QLoR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,754 Views
25 Pages

Automated Negotiation Agents for Modeling Single-Peaked Bidders: An Experimental Comparison

  • Fatemeh Hassanvand,
  • Faria Nassiri-Mofakham and
  • Katsuhide Fujita

22 August 2024

During automated negotiations, intelligent software agents act based on the preferences of their proprietors, interdicting direct preference exposure. The agent can be armed with a component of an opponent’s modeling features to reduce the unce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,446 Views
26 Pages

Can Social Agents Efficiently Perform in Automated Negotiation?

  • Victor Sanchez-Anguix,
  • Okan Tunalı,
  • Reyhan Aydoğan and
  • Vicente Julian

29 June 2021

In the last few years, we witnessed a growing body of literature about automated negotiation. Mainly, negotiating agents are either purely self-driven by maximizing their utility function or by assuming a cooperative stance by all parties involved in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,639 Views
29 Pages

Business Resilience Through AI-Agent Automation for SMEs and Startups: A Review on Agile Marketing and CRM

  • Hamed Hokmabadi,
  • Seyed M. H. S. Rezvani,
  • Hamid Hokmabadi and
  • Nuno Marques de Almeida

18 November 2025

Market volatility and resource constraints pose significant resilience challenges to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although AI-agent automation, agile marketing, and customer relationship management (CRM) offer powerful individual soluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,720 Views
35 Pages

Toward Robust Security Orchestration and Automated Response in Security Operations Centers with a Hyper-Automation Approach Using Agentic Artificial Intelligence

  • Ismail,
  • Rahmat Kurnia,
  • Zilmas Arjuna Brata,
  • Ghitha Afina Nelistiani,
  • Shinwook Heo,
  • Hyeongon Kim and
  • Howon Kim

29 April 2025

The evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats demands the modernization of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to enhance threat detection, response, and mitigation. Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms play a crucial ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,018 Views
24 Pages

21 March 2023

Automating a factory where robots are involved is neither trivial nor cheap. Engineering the factory automation process in such a way that return of interest is maximized and risk for workers and equipment is minimized is hence, of paramount importan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Views
18 Pages

AnonymAI: An Approach with Differential Privacy and Intelligent Agents for the Automated Anonymization of Sensitive Data

  • Marcelo Nascimento Oliveira Soares,
  • Leonardo Barbosa Oliveira,
  • Antonio João Gonçalves Azambuja,
  • Jean Phelipe de Oliveira Lima and
  • Anderson Silva Soares

9 January 2026

Data governance for responsible AI systems remains challenged by the lack of automated tools that can apply robust privacy-preserving techniques without destroying analytical value. We propose AnonymAI, a novel methodological framework that integrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,630 Views
24 Pages

11 March 2025

Sustainable supply chain management (SCM) demands efficiency while minimizing environmental impact, yet conventional automation lacks adaptability. This paper presents SustAI-SCM, an AI-powered framework integrating agentic intelligence to automate s...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,628 Views
25 Pages

AI-Augmented SOC: A Survey of LLMs and Agents for Security Automation

  • Siddhant Srinivas,
  • Brandon Kirk,
  • Julissa Zendejas,
  • Michael Espino,
  • Matthew Boskovich,
  • Abdul Bari,
  • Khalil Dajani and
  • Nabeel Alzahrani

The increasing volume, velocity, and sophistication of cyber threats have placed immense pressure on modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Traditional rule-based and manual processes are proving insufficient, leading to alert fatigue, delayed re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,718 Views
15 Pages

Existing autosamplers are frequently applied only for subjecting the samples to the instruments for injection. In our study, we have set up a TriPlusRSH autosampler mounted on a GC-FID-MS/MS system using the new Method Composer and Script Editor soft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2025

This study presents the optimization of an automated mushroom substrate irrigation system by integrating a Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) reinforcement learning agent with a recursive LSTM prediction model. The system, based on a Siemens S7-1200 PLC, CS650...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
14,690 Views
25 Pages

12 May 2023

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) require multiple tasks in their seamless maneuverings. Some essential tasks that require simultaneous management and actions are motion planning, traffic prediction, traffic intersection management, etc. A few...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,924 Views
20 Pages

Cyber Attack and Defense Emulation Agents

  • Jeong Do Yoo,
  • Eunji Park,
  • Gyungmin Lee,
  • Myung Kil Ahn,
  • Donghwa Kim,
  • Seongyun Seo and
  • Huy Kang Kim

21 March 2020

As the scale of the system and network grows, IT infrastructure becomes more complex and hard to be managed. Many organizations have a serious problem to manage their system and network security. In addition, vulnerabilities of hardware and software...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,243 Views
48 Pages

24 October 2025

This exploratory proof-of-concept study investigated the simultaneous deployment of autonomous, persona-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents across multiple social media platforms using the ElizaOS framework. We developed three platform-specifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,637 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Agent Multimodal Large Language Model Framework for Automated Interpretation of Fuel Efficiency Analytics in Public Transportation

  • Zhipeng Ma,
  • Ali Rida Bahja,
  • Andreas Burgdorf,
  • André Pomp,
  • Tobias Meisen,
  • Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen and
  • Zheng Grace Ma

30 October 2025

Enhancing fuel efficiency in public transportation requires the integration of complex multimodal data into interpretable, decision-relevant insights. However, traditional analytics and visualization methods often yield fragmented outputs that demand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,098 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates the feasibility of using an agent-based framework to configure, control and coordinate dynamic, real-time robotic operations with the use of ontology manufacturing principles. Production automation agents use ontology models t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,325 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Agent-Based Traffic Prediction and Traffic Classification for Autonomic Network Management Systems for Future Networks

  • Sisay Tadesse Arzo,
  • Zeinab Akhavan,
  • Mona Esmaeili,
  • Michael Devetsikiotis and
  • Fabrizio Granelli

Recently, a multi-agent based network automation architecture has been proposed. The architecture is named multi-agent based network automation of the network management system (MANA-NMS). The architectural framework introduced atomized network funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,459 Views
30 Pages

19 February 2025

Agent-based automated negotiation aims to enhance decision-making processes by predefining negotiation rules, strategies, and objectives to achieve mutually acceptable agreements. However, most existing research primarily focuses on modeling the form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,881 Views
33 Pages

Background: Intralogistics systems face growing challenges from globalization, individualization, and shorter product life cycles, demanding flexible and responsive solutions beyond traditional centralized control. Decentralized, agent-based approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
218 Views
26 Pages

31 December 2025

Automated negotiation in multi-agent electronic commerce environments relies heavily on efficient and reliable matching mechanisms to connect negotiation participants. However, existing matching protocols often fail to ensure transaction security and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,846 Views
26 Pages

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) systems integrate many previously separate clinical activities related to fetal monitoring. Promoting the use of ubiquitous fetal monitoring services with real time status assessments requires a robust information pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,772 Views
22 Pages

Designing Home Automation Routines Using an LLM-Based Chatbot

  • Mathyas Giudici,
  • Luca Padalino,
  • Giovanni Paolino,
  • Ilaria Paratici,
  • Alexandru Ionut Pascu and
  • Franca Garzotto

Without any more delay, individuals are urged to adopt more sustainable behaviors to fight climate change. New digital systems mixed with engaging and gamification mechanisms could play an important role in achieving such an objective. In particular,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,864 Views
27 Pages

Model-Driven Design and Development of Flexible Automated Production Control Configurations for Industry 4.0

  • Unai Gangoiti,
  • Alejandro López,
  • Aintzane Armentia,
  • Elisabet Estévez and
  • Marga Marcos

5 March 2021

The continuous changes of the market and customer demands have forced modern automation systems to provide stricter Quality of service (QoS) requirements. This work is centered in automation production system flexibility, understood as the ability to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
24,254 Views
21 Pages

A Study of Integrative Bargaining Model with Argumentation-Based Negotiation

  • Jinsoo Park,
  • Hamirahanim Abdul Rahman,
  • Jihae Suh and
  • Hazami Hussin

2 December 2019

E-commerce is increasingly competitive and there is a constant need for new approaches and technology to facilitate exchange. Emerging techniques include the use of artificial intelligence (AI). One AI tool that has sparked interest in e-commerce is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,246 Views
22 Pages

18 May 2023

Consensus building among agents is crucial in multi-agent systems because each agent acts independently according to its utility function, and conflict among agents can occur. Therefore, automated negotiation is an essential technology for efficientl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,638 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2023

The implementation of a multi-microgrid (MMG) system with multiple renewable energy sources enables the facilitation of electricity trading. To tackle the energy management problem of an MMG system, which consists of multiple renewable energy microgr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,557 Views
19 Pages

Automated Negotiation for Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading in Local Energy Markets

  • Christie Etukudor,
  • Benoit Couraud,
  • Valentin Robu,
  • Wolf-Gerrit Früh,
  • David Flynn and
  • Chinonso Okereke

19 February 2020

Reliable access to electricity is still a challenge in many developing countries. Indeed, rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa and developing countries such as India still encounter frequent power outages. Local energy markets (LEMs) have emerged as a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,746 Views
15 Pages

3 August 2021

In the context of global suburbanization and population aging, a low-speed, automated vehicle (LSAV) system provides essential mobility services in suburban residential areas. Although extensive studies on shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) services hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,491 Views
43 Pages

Investigation of Cybersecurity Bottlenecks of AI Agents in Industrial Automation

  • Sami Shrestha,
  • Chipiliro Banda,
  • Amit Kumar Mishra,
  • Fatiha Djebbar and
  • Deepak Puthal

23 October 2025

The growth of Agentic AI systems in Industrial Automation has brought forth new cybersecurity issues which in turn put at risk the reliability and integrity of these systems. In this study we look at the cybersecurity issues in industrial automation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,622 Views
25 Pages

Automated Manufacturing Systems (AMS) consisting of many cooperating devices incorporated into multiple cooperating production lines, sharing common resources, represent industrial Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Deadlocks may occur during operation of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,221 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2023

This paper presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm to address the scheduling and routing problems of multiple automated guided vehicles (AGVs), with the goal of minimizing overall energy consumption. The proposed algorithm is d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,023 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2023

Despite rapid advances in vehicle intelligence and connectivity, there is still a significant period in mixed traffic where connected, automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles coexist. The behavioral uncertainty of human-driven vehicles makes dec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,107 Views
36 Pages

15 December 2025

The accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Industrial Automation has established Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a transformative paradigm for adaptive control, intelligent optimization, and autonomous decision-making in smart fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Views
19 Pages

AgentRed: Towards an Agent-Based Approach to Automated Network Attack Traffic Generation

  • Koffi Anderson Koffi,
  • Kyle Lucke,
  • Elijah Danquah Darko,
  • Tollan Berhanu,
  • Robert Angelo Borrelli and
  • Constantinos Kolias

4 January 2026

Network security tools are indispensable in testing and evaluating the security of computer networks. Existing tools, such as Hping3, however, offer a limited set of options and attack-specific configurations, which restrict their use solely to well-...

  • Article
  • Open Access

From Automation to Autonomy: A Digital Twin Framework for Transparent Agent and Human Collaboration in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems

  • Inga Miadowicz,
  • Mathias Kuhl,
  • Daniel Maldonado Quinto,
  • Robert Pitz-Paal and
  • Michael Felderer
Systems2026, 14(1), 76;https://doi.org/10.3390/systems14010076 
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11 January 2026

With the advancement of digitization in the era of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), highly automated, semi-autonomous, and fully autonomous systems are emerging. Within this context, multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a promising approach for automating tasks and p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,569 Views
95 Pages

10 April 2025

The subway power supply system, as a critical component of urban rail transit infrastructure, plays a pivotal role in ensuring operational efficiency and safety. However, current systems remain heavily dependent on manual interventions for fault diag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,812 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2016

The technologies related to green energy, smart cities and similar areas being dynamically developed in recent years, face frequently problems of a computational nature rather than a technological one. The example is the ability of accurately predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,291 Views
19 Pages

In liberalized markets, consumers can choose their electricity suppliers or be part of an energy community. The problem with communities is that they may not have enough weight to trade in markets, which can be overcome by forming coalitions. Electri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,694 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2020

Reinforcement learning-based approaches are widely studied in the literature for solving different control tasks for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, from which this paper deals with the problem of lateral control of a dynamic nonlinear vehicle mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,196 Views
32 Pages

The smart-house technology aims to increase home automation and security with reduced energy consumption. A smart house consists of various intelligent sensors and actuators operating on different platforms with conflicting objectives. This paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,803 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Machine Learning for Automated Modeling of Residential Prosumer Agents

  • David Toquica,
  • Kodjo Agbossou,
  • Roland Malhamé,
  • Nilson Henao,
  • Sousso Kelouwani and
  • Alben Cardenas

4 May 2020

An efficient participation of prosumers in power system management depends on the quality of information they can obtain. Prosumers actions can be performed by automated agents that are operating in time-changing environments. Therefore, it is essent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,487 Views
19 Pages

In the context of automated vehicles, transparency of in-vehicle intelligent agents (IVIAs) is an important contributor to driver perception, situation awareness (SA), and driving performance. However, the effects of agent transparency on driver perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,515 Views
14 Pages

Responsible Artificial Intelligence Hyper-Automation with Generative AI Agents for Sustainable Cities of the Future

  • Daswin De Silva,
  • Nishan Mills,
  • Harsha Moraliyage,
  • Prabod Rathnayaka,
  • Sam Wishart and
  • Andrew Jennings

Smart cities are Hyper-Connected Digital Environments (HCDEs) that transcend the boundaries of natural, human-made, social, virtual, and artificial environments. Human activities are no longer confined to a single environment as our presence and inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,489 Views
24 Pages

Background: With advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence, various industries have made substantial efforts to integrate this technology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes or identify potential weaknesses. Con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,237 Views
26 Pages

Background: The habitat structure, the environmental impact, the market acceptance, the changes in consumers’ preferences, and the pandemic urged for innovative solutions in urban last-mile delivery. Parcel lockers are among the most preferred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,072 Views
35 Pages

14 May 2025

In today’s high-stakes arenas—from healthcare to defense—algorithms are advancing at an unprecedented pace, yet they still lack a crucial element of human decision-making: an instinctive caution that helps prevent harm. Inspired by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,950 Views
24 Pages

2 July 2021

Formal verification of distributed systems is essential, especially in mission-critical systems that cannot be restarted. Such are space systems in which satellites read sensor values and autonomously make actuator decisions based on them, and ground...

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