Agentic Workflows

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Agentic workflows study how language-model agents plan and carry out multi-step tasks by calling tools, coordinating specialized agents, and maintaining state or artifacts. Systems range from fixed graphs and typed protocols with deterministic checks to dynamically planned workflows that use reusable skills, human approval, and execution feedback. Work includes scientific and enterprise automation, workflow generation and evaluation, and serving methods such as model routing, caching, scheduling, and parallel execution. A central challenge is balancing flexible autonomy and efficiency with dependable, auditable behavior, since successful outputs can conceal unsafe shortcuts, semantic errors, privacy leaks, or failures that compound across steps.

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  1. Flowr -- Scaling Up Retail Supply Chain Operations Through Agentic AI in Large Scale Supermarket Chains

    Apr 7, 2026Eranga Bandara, Ross Gore, Sachin Shetty +15Supply Chain ManagementAgentic Workflows

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA · University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka · Deloitte & Touche LLP, USA +5

  2. FinReporting: An Agentic Workflow for Localized Reporting of Cross-Jurisdiction Financial Disclosures

    Apr 7, 2026Fan Zhang, Mingzi Song, Rania Elbadry +20Financial ServicesLLM Information Extraction

    Steve · MBZUAI · The University of Tokyo +8

  3. Explainable Model Routing for Agentic Workflows

    Apr 4, 2026Mika Okamoto, Ansel Kaplan Erol, Mark RiedlLLM Agent RoutingAgentic Workflows

    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  4. GeoAI Agency Primitives

    Apr 2, 2026Akram Zaytar, Rohan Sawahn, Caleb Robinson +5Agentic WorkflowsAI Agent Benchmarks

    Microsoft AI for Good Lab · NASA Harvest

  5. An Artifact-based Agent Framework for Adaptive and Reproducible Medical Image Processing

    Mar 31, 2026Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Gaurav Rudravaram +15Agentic WorkflowsScientific Workflow Automation

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA · Dept. of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA · Dept. of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA +10

  6. Near-Miss: Latent Policy Failure Detection in Agentic Workflows

    Mar 31, 2026Ella Rabinovich, David Boaz, Naama Zwerdling +1LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Auditing

    IBM Research

  7. PSDesigner: Automated Graphic Design with a Human-Like Creative Workflow

    Mar 26, 2026Xincheng Shuai, Song Tang, Yutong Huang +2Agentic WorkflowsLLM Tool Use

    Institute of Big Data, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, China · Generative AI Lab, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  8. TopoPilot: Reliable Conversational Workflow Automation for Topological Data Analysis and Visualization

    Mar 26, 2026Nathaniel Gorski, Shusen Liu, Bei WangAgentic WorkflowsAI Agent Reliability

    University of Utah · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  9. From Static Templates to Dynamic Runtime Graphs: A Survey of Workflow Optimization for LLM Agents

    Mar 23, 2026Ling Yue, Kushal Raj Bhandari, Ching-Yun Ko +6LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationAgentic Workflows

    Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA · IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA · Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA

  10. WorkflowGen:an adaptive workflow generation mechanism driven by trajectory experience

    Mar 22, 2026Ruocan Wei, Shufeng Wang, Ziwei ShiAgentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    China Telecom Cloud, Beijing, China

  11. Design-OS: A Specification-Driven Framework for Engineering System Design with a Control-Systems Design Case

    Mar 20, 2026H. Sinan Bank, Daniel R. Herber, Thomas H. BradleyAgentic WorkflowsHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Department of Systems Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

  12. HyEvo: Self-Evolving Hybrid Agentic Workflows for Efficient Reasoning

    Mar 20, 2026Beibei Xu, Yutong Ye, Chuyun Shen +3Agentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    East China Normal University · Beihang University · Shanghai University of International Business and Economics +1

  13. Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspectives on Utility, Adoption, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Mar 19, 2026Kristen M. Edwards, Maxwell Bauer, Claire Jacquillat +2Agentic AIAgentic Workflows

  14. Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto

    Mar 19, 2026Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo +15AI Agent GovernanceAgentic Workflows

    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy · University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom +13

  15. Don't Vibe Code, Do Skele-Code: Interactive No-Code Notebooks for Subject Matter Experts to Build Lower-Cost Agentic Workflows

    Mar 18, 2026Sriram GopalakrishnanAgentic WorkflowsWorkflow Automation

    JP Morgan Chase & Co. AI Research

  16. Efficient LLM Serving for Agentic Workflows: A Data Systems Perspective

    Mar 17, 2026Noppanat Wadlom, Junyi Shen, Yao LuLLM ServingLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    National University of Singapore Singapore

  17. From Workflow Automation to Capability Closure: A Formal Framework for Safe and Revenue-Aware Customer Service AI

    Mar 16, 2026Cosimo SperaAI Agent SafetyCustomer Support Automation

    Minerva CQ, 114 Lester Ln, Los Gatos, CA 95032

  18. PMAx: An Agentic Framework for AI-Driven Process Mining

    Mar 16, 2026Anton Antonov, Humam Kourani, Alessandro Berti +2Process MiningData Analysis Agents

    Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany · RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstraße 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany

  19. Knowledge Activation: AI Skills as the Institutional Knowledge Primitive for Agentic Software Development

    Mar 16, 2026Gal BakalSoftware Engineering AgentsAgentic Workflows

    Yahoo Inc.*

  20. Design and evaluation of an agentic workflow for crisis-related synthetic tweet datasets

    Mar 13, 2026Roben Delos Reyes, Timothy Douglas, Asanobu KitamotoSynthetic Data GenerationAgentic Workflows

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. · National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

  21. NormCode Canvas: Making LLM Agentic Workflows Development Sustainable via Case-Based Reasoning

    Mar 13, 2026Xin Guan, Yunshan Li, Ze WangAgentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Psylens AI, China · Shenzhen University, China · University College London, United Kingdom

  22. Context is all you need: Towards autonomous model-based process design using agentic AI in flowsheet simulations

    Mar 13, 2026Pascal Schäfer, Lukas J. Krinke, Martin Wlotzka +1Agentic WorkflowsAgentic Code Generation

    BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany · RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  23. MASFactory: A Graph-centric Framework for Orchestrating LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems with Vibe Graphing

    Mar 6, 2026Yang Liu, Jinxuan Cai, Yishen Li +6LLM Agent OrchestrationMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  24. AgentSCOPE: Evaluating Contextual Privacy Across Agentic Workflows

    Mar 5, 2026Ivoline C. Ngong, Keerthiram Murugesan, Swanand Kadhe +3AI Agent EvaluationAgentic Workflows

    University of Vermont · IBM Research

  25. Agentics 2.0: Logical Transduction Algebra for Agentic Data Workflows

    Mar 4, 2026Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Junkyu Lee, Nahuel DefosseAgentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Harnesses

    IBM

  26. Agentic AI-based Coverage Closure for Formal Verification

    Mar 3, 2026Sivaram Pothireddypalli, Ashish Raman, Deepak Narayan Gadde +1Formal Hardware VerificationFormal Verification

    Infineon Technologies India Private Limited, India · Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India · Infineon Technologies Dresden AG & Co. KG, Germany

  27. QCAgent: An agentic framework for quality-controllable pathology report generation from whole slide image

    Mar 2, 2026Rundong Wang, Wei Ba, Ying Zhou +8Medical Report GenerationComputational Pathology

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P.R. China · Center for Medical Imaging, Robotics, Analytic Computing & Learning (MIRACLE), Suzhou Institute for Advance Research, USTC, 215123, P.R. China · Chinese PLA General Hospital Ninth Medical Center, China +1

  28. WirelessAgent++: Automated Agentic Workflow Design and Benchmarking for Wireless Networks

    Feb 28, 2026Jingwen Tong, Zijian Li, Fang Liu +2Wireless Local Area NetworksAgentic Workflows

    College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR

  29. Airavat: An Agentic Framework for Internet Measurement

    Feb 24, 2026Alagappan Ramanathan, Eunju Kang, Dongsu Han +1Agentic WorkflowsScientific Workflow Automation

    University of California, Irvine · KAIST

  30. Agile V: A Compliance-Ready Framework for AI-Augmented Engineering -- From Concept to Audit-Ready Delivery

    Feb 24, 2026Christopher Koch, Joshua Andreas WellbrockAgentic WorkflowsAutomated Software Engineering

    Agile-V.org Germany