Task delegation in multi-agent systems (MASs) is crucial for ensuring efficient collaboration among agents with different capabilities and skills. Traditional delegation models rely on social mechanisms such as trust and reputation to evaluate potent...
Task complexity is one of the main factors studied by academics and is at the center of leaders’ concerns. It is related to delegation and flexibility, which are enhanced by workers’ engagement and depend on how leadership is shared. In t...
Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral bias that involves the overestimation of one’s own capabilities. We introduce a model in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation o...
Background/Objectives: The institution of the nursing assistant (NA) profile in Italy, established by the Decree 28 February 2025 responds to the chronic shortage of healthcare personnel, especially in nursing. This figure, non-healthcare but trained...
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Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) for chronic heart failure (CHF) management has demonstrated clinical and economic benefits. However, data on its organisational impact remain limited, particularly in the French healthcare context following...
Background/Objectives: Physician shortages increasingly challenge the provision of medical care at mass gathering events. Telemedicine may expand the treatment capabilities of Emergency medical technician intermediates (EMT-I), but the extent to whic...
Approximately one-third of adult inpatients are malnourished with substantial associated healthcare burden. Delegation frameworks facilitate improved nutrition care delivery and high-value healthcare. This study aimed to explore knowledge, attitudes,...
As the amount of data generated in various distributed environments is rapidly increasing, cloud servers and computing technologies are attracting considerable attention. However, the cloud server has privacy issues, including personal information an...
As an emerging paradigm of service infrastructure, social internet of things (SIoT) applies the social networking aspects to the internet of things (IoT). Each object in SIoT can establish the social relationship without human intervention, which wil...
Jethro’s dialogue with his son-in-law, Moses, in the Book of Exodus 18: 8–26 can be summarised according to the four-fold elements of subsidiarity, communitarian responsibility, delegation, and synodality, which lead to focus in life. The...
Decentralized P2P networks have emerged as robust instruments to execute computing tasks, with enhanced security and transparency. Solutions such as Blockchain have proved to be successful in a large catalog of critical applications such as cryptocur...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) accelerates programming, but its educational value depends on whether students check generated code before accepting it. This concurrent mixed-methods study examined which beliefs accompany such checking amo...
Agentic AI is increasingly framed as enabling consumers to delegate commerce decisions and actions to digital assistants, yet consumer-facing evidence still centers on assistive chatbots and recommender-like systems, with scarce evaluation of executi...
Task planning for robots in real-life settings is inherently complex due to challenges such as identifying grounded sequences of actions to achieve a goal, bridging the gap between high-level planning and low-level execution, and addressing the compu...
The primary aim of this study was to provide a sustainable and systemic solution to the prevalent time management challenges within healthcare academia. The secondary aim was to explore the correlations between various factors influencing time manage...
While some areas of software engineering knowledge present great advances with respect to the automation of processes, tools, and practices, areas such as software maintenance have scarcely been addressed by either industry or academia, thus delegati...
To resist collusion between two cloud providers (CPs) in cross-verifiable outsourced computation, several smart contract-based schemes have been proposed. Their key idea is to incentivize a cloud to secretly betray collusion. In multi-round task outs...
Policy learning under delayed reward conditions remains a significant challenge for end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) agents. The difficulty increases for problems that require long-term planning and the execution of multiple dependent subtasks....
In higher education, agentic AI goes beyond drafting content to creating learning management system (LMS) artefacts and scheduling releases under teacher oversight. Adoption research has modelled intention towards tools that draft rather than act, le...
Agentic AI is changing enterprise cybersecurity as AI systems move beyond passive content generation toward autonomous planning, tool use, delegated execution, and operational action. As agents connect to email, code repositories, security operations...
Today’s business environments face rapid digital transformation, engendering the continuous emerging of new technologies. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the new technologies rapidly and increasingly grabbing the attention of businesses. R...
Interacting with virtual agents in immersive settings is becoming increasingly common thanks to the proliferation of dedicated media devices, such as consumer-grade virtual and augmented reality headsets. These technologies offer many advantages, e.g...
The rapid advancement of technology and innovation is also impacting education across different levels. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform education in various areas, from course materials to assessment systems. This r...
The core of the research focuses on analyzing the discharge characteristic of a lithium NMC battery in an autonomous mobile robot, which can be used as a model to predict its future states depending on the amount of missions queued. In the presented...
Educational AI auditing is the systematic, evidence-based examination of artificial intelligence systems used in formal, non-formal, and informal education to determine whether they are technically reliable, pedagogically valid, developmentally appro...
Given the increasing prevalence of intelligent systems capable of autonomous actions or augmenting human activities, it is important to consider scenarios in which the human, autonomous system, or both can exhibit failures as a result of one of sever...
We examine decision-making, shared authority, and pluralism as key characteristics for the effective co-management of natural resources. Drawing on the concept of network governance, we complement this approach by studying localized practices of gove...
Background/Objectives: This study identified tasks suitable for delegation and gathered insights on how task shifting might affect medical care quality and working hours. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among obstetricians and gynecolog...
Generative AI is reshaping university teaching and creating tension around authority, evidence, and accountability when decisions are made using algorithms. From a student perspective, this study constructed a typology of distributed teacher–AI...
As content creators increasingly assume roles once associated with journalism, marketing, and entrepreneurship, generative AI is reshaping the conditions under which professional value is produced and recognized. Drawing on ten semi-structured interv...
Software for robotic systems is becoming progressively more complex despite the existence of established software ecosystems like ROS, as the problems we delegate to robots become more and more challenging. Ensuring that the software works as intende...
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into healthcare, primarily supporting clinical decision-making. Agentic AI may extend these applications by autonomously planning, coordinating, and executing clinical and...
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This paper uses mixed methods to explore the preliminary design of control authority preferences for an Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM). To familiarize users with an intelligent robotic arm, we perform two kitchen task iterations: one with user-i...
The appropriate categorisation of written information by health professionals is very important to guarantee its accessibility. Unfortunately, the information technology tools that support professionals on that task imply a heavy workload, so that th...
In Industry 5.0, human workers and their wellbeing are placed at the centre of the production process. In this context, task-oriented dialogue systems allow workers to delegate simple tasks to industrial assets while working on other, more complex on...
With the advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), end-devices have been served as sensors, gateways, or local storage equipment. Due to their scarce resource capability, cloud-based computing is currently a necessary companion. However, raw data colle...
This paper aims to map out the transformations in contemporary performance art during the current ‘age of extinction’. The first section extends Claire Bishop’s notion of “delegated performance” in order to categorize a...
The emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses unprecedented challenges to homiletic practice, compelling a shift in focus from the textual proficiency of the machine to the ontological status of preaching itself. Through a theologica...
To promote the acceptance of robots in society, it is crucial to design systems exhibiting adaptive behavior. This is particularly needed in various social domains (e.g., cultural heritage, healthcare, education). Despite significant advancements in...
Deep learning demands a large amount of annotated data, and the annotation task is often crowdsourced for economic efficiency. When the annotation task is delegated to non-experts, the dataset may contain data with inaccurate labels. Noisy labels not...
Agentic AI can interpret information, plan, make workflow decisions, and use enterprise tools. Yet technical capability does not establish authoritative meaning, legitimate process state, organisational permission, or accountable execution. The chall...
A big challenge in human–robot interaction (HRI) is the design of autonomous robots that collaborate effectively with humans, exposing behaviors similar to those exhibited by humans when they interact with each other. Indeed, robots are part of...
This paper examines housework reallocation during China’s stringent pandemic lockdowns in 2020, where individuals were homebound and job-free while employment status remained unchanged. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, it analyzes 1669 survey...
In Poland, responsibility for educational tasks has mainly been delegated to local governments, although the state still plays a decisive role. Municipalities finance these tasks using educational subsidies and targeted grants from the central budget...
While pharmacy technician roles in some practice settings are expanding beyond the traditional dispensing activities to include advanced or specialized tasks such as immunization administration, medication history collection, and final product verifi...
The newest Distributed Ledger Technology platforms, which delegate the execution of complex tasks in the form of Smart Contracts, make it possible to devise novel local electricity market frameworks, which are performed in a fully automated fashion....
The prediction of PV output represents an important task for PV farm operators as it enables them to forecast the energy they will produce and sell on the energy market. Existing approaches rely on a combination of satellite/all-sky images and numeri...
The influence of government policies on the selection of recycling channels has been widely discussed, but there are few studies from the perspective of product Eco-design. This paper examines the recycling channel options for a manufacturer applying...
With the gradual popularization of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and the development of wireless networking technologies, the use of heterogeneous devices and runtime verification of task fulfillment with different constraints are required in...
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