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Mina Alipour

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ARISMA: Guidelines for AI- and LLM-Assisted Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and Mapping Studies

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews, mapping studies, and related evidence syntheses are increasingly difficult to conduct with fully manual workflows as search volumes, update cycles, and synthesis requirements continue to expand. At the same time, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models are rapidly entering review practice across query formulation, screening, extraction, categorization, appraisal support, and reporting. Yet the empirical evidence remains uneven, task-dependent, and insufficient to justify unconstrained automation. Existing standards such as PRISMA 2020, PRISMA-S, PRISMA-ScR, PRISMA-P, PRESS, and SWiM remain essential, but none provides an end-to-end operational standard for when AI use is methodologically appropriate, how it should be validated, which review decisions must remain human-led, and how AI involvement should be reported so that readers can audit it. This paper proposes ARISMA, an AI Reporting and Integration standard for Systematic Methods and Analysis. ARISMA treats AI as an inspected, benchmarked, logged, and reversible assistant rather than an autonomous reviewer. It is built around one governing principle: every consequential scientific decision must remain human-interpretable, human-auditable, and human-accountable. The paper contributes a lifecycle taxonomy, process guidance, stepwise recommendations across the review pipeline, a governance and provenance model, a tool-support framework, an AI-integrated reporting checklist, and a validation matrix. It also addresses legal, privacy, infrastructure, and sustainability considerations. The framework was iteratively refined through structured expert consultation. The result is a practical and auditable guideline for responsible AI-assisted evidence synthesis.

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Adaptive Human-AI Collaboration: A Review of Multimodal Context Modeling, Uncertainty-Aware Intervention, and Longitudinal Co-Adaptation

Artificial intelligence is shifting from a static decision-support tool to an adaptive collaborator that must sense context, decide when and how to intervene, and improve through repeated interaction with humans individually and in groups. Yet meta-analytic evidence shows that human-AI combinations often fail to outperform the best of either partner alone, and the enabling literature remains fragmented across multimodal sensing, uncertainty quantification, reliance and delegation, facilitation, and teaming. This paper reports a review of adaptive human-AI collaboration literature through a closed-loop lens. Following iterative identification, staged selection against explicit criteria, structured extraction, taxonomy-driven synthesis, and snowballing, we analyze 50 reviewed works. We contribute i) a taxonomy of multimodal context modeling, from individual states to collective states such as group engagement and participation equality; ii) a taxonomy of uncertainty-aware intervention, covering uncertainty sources, estimation and calibration mechanisms, an intervention repertoire that ranges from explanation modulation and deferral to group facilitation, and intervention policies; and iii) a taxonomy of longitudinal co-adaptation and synergy-oriented evaluation. We integrate the three taxonomies into MCAL, a dual-timescale Multimodal Co-Adaptation Loop reference model, and instantiate it on a mixed human-robot workspace, walking every stage of the loop through one concrete setting to show what each taxonomy cell holds in practice.

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From Blind Edits to Verified Repair: Building Trustworthy User-Side LLM Agents for Web Accessibility

Assistive agents that adapt web pages on the user's side, at the moment of browsing, could reach the accessibility failures that site authors leave unfixed, and large language models make such agents newly plausible. We contribute three building blocks toward that goal. The first is a complete, privacy-preserving browser agent: a Chrome extension that extracts a page's style sheets, condenses them to fit a local model's context window, asks the model for additive CSS addressing 18 metrics from WCAG and the W3C cognitive accessibility guidance, and injects the result reversibly into the live page. The second is a dual-condition protocol that measures harm as carefully as benefit, applied to six small open-weight models (7B to 14B) on ten violation-rich and ten highly accessible live sites. The diagnosis is sobering but precise: unverified generation improved and regressed pages at similar rates (24 improvements against 20 regressions across the 100 trials of the five models that produced injectable CSS), fixing typography while breaking perception-dependent properties. The third answers the diagnosis: a verified repair instrument pairing a trilingual seeded-violation benchmark with an audit-inject-verify loop that accepts a change only if violations strictly decrease, so regression on the automated checks is impossible by construction. In a real browser the instrument detects 57 of 57 seeded violations with no false positives and rejects 126 of 126 adversarially harmful candidates. All code, prompts, benchmark materials, aggregate data, and validation logs are released.

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Continuous Behavioral Synthesis for Adaptive Health Dashboards: An LLM-Mediated Architecture Integrating Explicit Preference, Spatial Reorganization, and Attention Allocation Signals

The engineering of adaptive user interfaces has traditionally relied on either rule-based systems encoding designer intuitions about user needs or machine learning approaches requiring substantial historical data before achieving effective personalization. We present a technical architecture that leverages Large Language Models as behavioral synthesis engines to enable immediate adaptation from sparse, heterogeneous user signals. Our system integrates three distinct behavioral channels, i) explicit micro-feedback on individual interface elements, ii) spatial priority inferred from manual widget reorganization through drag-and-drop interaction, iii) and attentional investment measured through dwell time during hover events, within a structured prompt engineering framework that continuously regenerates dashboard layouts while maintaining explanatory coherence. The architecture addresses the technical challenge of translating low-level interaction patterns into high-level design decisions through a layered prompt construction methodology that separates temporal context determination, behavioral signal extraction, explicit preference enforcement, and user profile synthesis. The approach combines manually specified behavioral interpretations and temporal heuristics with LLM-mediated synthesis, enabling the reconciliation of multiple simultaneous signals that would be difficult to encode through explicit rules alone. We demonstrate the system through an instantiation in the personal health monitoring domain, including an analytical evaluation of adaptation behavior across multiple scenarios and a working implementation managing fourteen distinct health metrics across seven widget visualization modalities. The evaluation compares profile-driven initialization, multi-signal behavioral adaptation, and presents the resulting interfaces through representative post-adaptation screenshots.

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Designing Adaptive Digital Nudging Systems with LLM-Driven Reasoning

Digital nudging systems lack architectural guidance for translating behavioral science into software design. While research identifies nudge strategies and quality attributes, existing architectures fail to integrate multi-dimensional user modeling with ethical compliance as architectural concerns. We present an architecture that uses behavioral theory through explicit architectural decisions, treating ethics and fairness as structural guardrails rather than implementation details. A literature review synthesized 68 nudging strategies, 11 quality attributes, and 3 user profiling dimensions into architectural requirements. The architecture implements sequential processing layers with cross-cutting evaluation modules enforcing regulatory compliance. Validation with 13 software architects confirmed requirements satisfaction and domain transferability. An LLM-powered proof-of-concept in residential energy sustainability demonstrated feasibility through evaluation with 15 users, achieving high perceived intervention quality and measurable positive emotional impact. This work bridges behavioral science and software architecture by providing reusable patterns for adaptive systems that balance effectiveness with ethical constraints.

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The Need for a Green ICT Reference Framework

The sustainability impacts of ICT systems are difficult to assess and govern due to structural complexity, fragmented measurement practices, and unclear responsibilities across system layers. We argue that these challenges cannot be addressed solely by metrics and motivate the need for a shared Green ICT reference framework that integrates sustainability across multiple perspectives and domains, lifecycle phases, and governance contexts. We present an initial framework developed within the Informatics Europe Green ICT Working Group as a first step towards a comprehensive reference framework.

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Toward a Sustainable Software Architecture Community: Evaluating ICSA's Environmental Impact

Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly integrated into software architecture research, yet the environmental impact of their computational usage remains largely undocumented. This study presents the first systematic audit of the carbon footprint of both the digital footprint from GenAI usage in research papers, and the traditional footprint from conference activities within the context of the IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). We report two separate carbon inventories relevant to the software architecture research community: i) an exploratory estimate of the footprint of GenAI inference usage associated with accepted papers within a research-artifact boundary, and ii) the conference attendance and operations footprint of ICSA 2025 (travel, accommodation, catering, venue energy, and materials) within the conference time boundary. These two inventories, with different system boundaries and completeness, support transparency and community reflection. We discuss implications for sustainable software architecture, including recommendations for transparency, greener conference planning, and improved energy efficiency in GenAI operations. Our work supports a more climate-conscious research culture within the ICSA community and beyond

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