Workflow Automation

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Workflow automation studies how to coordinate multi-step work across applications, tools, and people, including business processes, document handling, data analysis, and clinical or engineering tasks. Common approaches combine large language model agents with workflow graphs, planners, APIs or GUI tools, retrieval, deterministic rules, validation, and human approval. The field is moving beyond isolated actions toward end-to-end, stateful workflows, with benchmarks testing cross-application coordination, policy compliance, and the quality of final artifacts. Constrained systems can perform well in production settings, but complex workflows remain unreliable, leaving a central tension between flexible agent behavior and the control, safety, and auditability needed for deployment.

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  1. Automating Feature Flag Cleanup at Scale with Multi-Agent LLM Systems: An Industrial Experience at DoorDash

    Oct 22, 2026Atharv Chandratre, Jai DatarAutomated Software EngineeringWorkflow Automation

    DoorDash, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

  2. Where Natural Language Ends in Agents: Executable Skill Composition with MetaSkill

    Oct 17, 2026Meng Shu, Wei He, Hang Zhou +3LLM Agent OrchestrationLLM Agents

    TokenRhythm Technologies · Xidian University · Beijing Institute of Technology

  3. AutoOnboarder: Autonomously Onboarding LLM Agents

    Oct 15, 2026Tanay Arora, Cong LiuLLM Agent TrainingAgent Harness Optimization

    Research Science Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · CliGenAILab, Boston Children’s Hospital

  4. EvoCowork: A Benchmark for Real-World Office Tasks

    Oct 10, 2026Zhou Liu, Xingyan Chen, ZhaoYang Han +6Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Benchmarks

    Peking University · Sun Yat-sen University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +3

  5. A Self-Defining Operator for Distributed Applications

    Oct 10, 2026Shihang Li, Thomas Anderson, Ratul Mahajan +2LLM Agent Self-ImprovementWorkflow Automation

    University of Washington

  6. RadOnc-Agent: An LLM-Orchestrated Framework for AI Workflows Across the Radiotherapy Care Pathway

    Oct 2, 2026Caiwen Jiang, Shuoyang Wei, Songlin Zhao +3Workflow AutomationLLM Agent Orchestration

    Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

  7. PyPottery: an AI-powered end-to-end suite for pottery processing and publication

    Oct 1, 2026Lorenzo CardarelliWorkflow AutomationCultural Heritage

    Seminars für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen, 37073 · ISMed-CNR – Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Naples, 80134 · Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Antiquities, and Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, Via in Miranda 5, 00186 Rome, Italy

  8. APEX-Voice: Can Voice Agents Complete Professional Workflows Through Full-Duplex Interaction

    Sep 28, 2026Puneet Mathur, Dinesh ManochaVoice Agent EvaluationTool-Using Agents

    University of Maryland College Park, USA

  9. CLAIRE: A Schema-Grounded Hybrid Workflow for Healthcare Administrative Form Completion

    Sep 26, 2026Garapati Keerthana, Manik GuptaWorkflow AutomationHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad, India

  10. KnowBench: Effort Reduction as a Unified, Deployment-Grounded Benchmark for Clinical AI

    Sep 14, 2026Jocelyn Kang, Caroline ZhangBenchmark DesignWorkflow Automation

    Knowtex Inc.

  11. AI Assisted Workflow Optimization and Automation

    Sep 13, 2026Zhen ZhongWorkflow AutomationBusiness Process Automation

    Senior Data Engineer, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, United States

  12. DSAgentBench: Can Agents Automate End-to-End Data-Science Workflows in Real Computer Environments?

    Aug 11, 2026Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub +3Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Evaluation

    York University · Nanyang Technological University · Salesforce AI Research

  13. SiriusDeliver: Automating Data Warehouse Delivery at Tencent

    Aug 10, 2026Haining Xie, Xiaokai Zhou, Jiaming Yang +12LLM Agent OrchestrationLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    TEG, Tencent Inc. · Wuhan University

  14. Evaluating LLM Trade-offs for Enterprise Automation: Lessons from Workflow Generation in a Production Enterprise Platform

    Aug 4, 2026Xavier Wrenn, Radoslav Raykov, Aleksandar Angelov +3LLM EvaluationWorkflow Automation

    IBM

  15. LLMs in Process Diagram Engineering: From Optimal PFDs to Validated P&IDs

    Jul 21, 2026Timur Zakarin, Sergei Voitov, Sergei Shumilin +1Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationWorkflow Automation

    Skoltech, AI Center, Moscow, Russia · AIRI, Moscow, Russia

  16. StructureClaw: Traceable LLM Agents and an Executable Benchmark for Structural Engineering Workflows

    Jul 16, 2026Sizhong Qin, Yi Gu, Yao Jiang +13LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  17. Motif: Discovering and Automating Personal Web Workflows

    Jul 12, 2026Shaokang Jiang, Daye NamLLM-Based Program SynthesisHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    University of California, Irvine Irvine, California, USA

  18. Workflow as Knowledge: Semantic Persistence for LLM-Mediated Workflows

    Jul 9, 2026Emanuele Quinto, Carlo Andrea Rozzi, Francesco ZanittiAgentic WorkflowsWorkflow Automation

    UNHCR København, Denmark · CNR—Istituto Nanoscienze Modena, Italy · ZeLe & F ApS København, Denmark

  19. Agentic AI for IPoDWDM Network Lifecycle Automation: An MCP-Enabled Architecture

    Jul 7, 2026Chunmin Xia, Jakub Harbaczewski, Nikhil Dsilva +3Multi-Agent OrchestrationWorkflow Automation

    Adtran Networks SE

  20. World Feedback for Clinical Agents: Diagnosing RL in FHIR Environments

    Jul 1, 2026Ananya Mantravadi, Harshit Rajgarhia, Prasanna Desikan +1LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Centific Global Solutions, Inc.

  21. DA-Studio: An Agentic System for End-to-End Data Analysis

    Jun 30, 2026Yizhe Liu, Shaolei Zhang, Ju FanExecution-Guided Code GenerationAgentic Workflows

    Renmin University of China

  22. From Idea to Prototype in an Afternoon: Scaffolded, AI-Assisted Rapid VA Prototyping

    Jun 30, 2026Gennady Andrienko, Natalia AndrienkoWorkflow AutomationHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, Sankt Augustin, 53757, Germany

  23. Characterizing Large Language Model Agentic Workflows: A Study on N8n Ecosystem

    Jun 27, 2026Yutian Tang, Yuming Zhou, Huaming ChenAgentic WorkflowsHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow · School of Computer Science, Nanjing University · The University of Sydney

  24. A Process Harness for Uplifting Legacy Workflows to Agentic BPM: Design and Realization in CUGA FLO

    Jun 25, 2026Fabiana Fournier, Lior LimonadLLM Agent OrchestrationAgentic Workflows

    1IBM SIL, Israel · Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Haifa

  25. Content-Based Smart E-Mail Dispatcher Using Large Language Models

    Jun 25, 2026K. Paramesha, K R Sriram, Sujan Shetty +2Workflow Automation

    Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, India

  26. Toward Self-Evolution-Ready Workflow Harnesses: A Reversible Migration Path and Convertibility Taxonomy for Expert LLM Pipelines

    Jun 15, 2026Yimo Lin, Zhen Zhang, Yibin LiAgentic WorkflowsWorkflow Automation

    1Yunyong Century (Beijing) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. · 2Tsinghua University

  27. Orange Lab: Lowering Barriers to Data Mining through Embedded Interactive Workflows

    Jun 8, 2026Matej Bevec, Aleš Erjavec, Vesna Tanko +5Workflow AutomationVisual Analytics

    University of Ljubljana · Ljubljana, Slovenia · Revelo d.o.o.

  28. How Indian Dermatologists are Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Practice and Workflow Management: A Nationwide Survey with a Special Focus on atopic dermatitis

    Jun 3, 2026Dipayan Sengupta, Saumya Panda, Sandipan Dhar +3HealthcareWorkflow Automation

    Charnock Hospital, Kolkata, India · Department of Dermatology, Jagannath Gupta Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Kolkata, India · Department of Pediatric Dermatology, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata-700017, India +3

  29. MedCUA-Bench: A Screenshot-Only Benchmark for Clinical Computer-Use Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Jia Yu, Zilong Wang, Xinyang Jiang +2Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksLLM Agent Evaluation

    Microsoft Research Asia, Shanghai, China · Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Key Laboratory of MICCAI, Shanghai, China

  30. Its All About Speed: AIs Impact on Workflow in Music Production

    May 28, 2026Finn McClellan, Fabio MorrealeWorkflow AutomationHuman-Centered AI

    Waipapa Taumata Rau - University of Auckland, Auckland (Aotearoa - New Zealand) · Sony AI, Barcelona (Spain)