2026
Authors
Faquir, Y; Santos, A; Mamede, HS;
Publication
AI
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organizations develop human potential, offering scalable and data-driven support for coaching and capability building. This study proposes and validates a conceptual framework for integrating AI into organizational coaching processes to enhance competence development and strategic alignment. AI-supported coaching in this research is treated as an emerging organizational technology whose potential organizational value depends less on model capability and more on governance design, decision rights, and auditable evaluation outputs. Following a mixed-methods, multi-phase design, the research combined a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with the construction of a layered design architecture in which OSCAR serves as the primary coaching-process scaffold, complemented by KSA for competency specification, Situational Leadership for adaptive guidance, and KPIs for monitoring and governance. The framework structures AI-supported coaching across 10 interrelated phases, from contextual anchoring to review and measurement, while preserving iterative re-entry to earlier phases whenever review evidence, contextual change, or insufficient progress makes adjustment necessary. Prototyping demonstrated feasibility and coherence across models, while the focus group provided qualitative expert feedback on the framework's clarity, governance needs, and perceived usefulness for competence development. At this stage, however, the KPI structures generated by the framework and the descriptive comparison across AI tools should be interpreted as prototype-level outputs rather than as empirically validated performance measures or evidence of added value over baseline approaches. Because the evaluation relied on two fictional prototyping scenarios and a small expert-oriented focus group (n = 6), the findings should be interpreted as evidence of prototype demonstration and qualitative refinement rather than of real-world effectiveness or organizational impact. The study also does not include a control group or comparison with traditional human coaching, so the added value of the AI-supported framework over alternative coaching arrangements remains a question for future empirical testing. Findings suggest that AI can usefully support organizational coaching by personalizing dialogue, structuring reflection, and generating auditable development artefacts, provided ethical safeguards and human oversight remain integral. The research contributes a preliminarily validated, ethics-informed, and governance-aware framework for AI adoption in organizational coaching and offers practical insights for embedding AI-enabled development in learning organizations.
2026
Authors
Ferreira, CM; Mamede, HS; Guerreiro, S;
Publication
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
Abstract
Web frontends are ubiquitous, from Web pages and single-page applications to hybrid mobile apps, Web frontends play a crucial role in today's digital economy. At their core, they rely on JavaScript, whose single-threaded nature poses significant challenges to delivering smooth and responsive user experiences as complexity rises. In-browser parallelism promises responsiveness and throughput improvements, but spans several mechanisms (Web Workers, Worklets, OffscreenCanvas, WebAssembly threads) with diverse coordination models. We conducted a systematic review of primary studies on using Web Workers for parallel JavaScript in browsers, extracting design and scope choices, to collate the resources necessary for a generic ES5-compatible parallel enumeration system capable of type introspection. Such a system would enable widespread in-browser parallelization without any external plug-ins or experimental JavaScript specifications, and spare developers from managing work-splitting and result-merging.
2026
Authors
Araújo, AS; Mamede, HS; Santos, V; Filipe, V;
Publication
IEEE ACCESS
Abstract
Some of the main challenges faced by organizations when applying Continuous Business Process Improvement are data fragmentation, limited explainability, weak governance, and the isolated use of Artificial Intelligence in Business Process Management. This study initially conducts a Systematic Literature Review on the topic of business process improvement enabled by Large Language Models or Artificial Intelligence in organizations, presenting a comprehensive analysis of prevailing research trends, conceptual frameworks, and persistent limitations, identifying seventeen recurring gaps that affect the effectiveness of integrating the capabilities of Large Language Models and other Artificial Intelligence technologies throughout the entire lifecycle of Continuous Business Process Improvement. As a result, we propose a Framework and its gap-oriented reference architecture that, through modular components, facilitates data integration, reasoning, validation, execution, and monitoring within a closed loop of continuous business process improvement. The framework is operationalized through six phases: Process Understanding, Process Diagnosis, Process Redesign, Process Validation, Process Execution Support, and Continuous Monitoring. The results suggest that designing the framework and architecture directly from the identified gaps creates a coherent foundation for AI-driven process improvement, enabling more reliable, explainable, and easily governed and managed solutions. The study improves the current state of the art by creating a cohesive framework for intelligent, scalable, lifecycle-integrated, and operationally deployable process optimization systems.
2026
Authors
Martins, J; Branco, F; dos Santos, VD; Mamede, HS;
Publication
Abstract
2026
Authors
Costa, L; Barbosa, S; Cunha, J;
Publication
FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE
Abstract
In recent years, the research community, but also the general public, has raised serious questions about the reproducibility and replicability of scientific work. Since many studies include some kind of computational work, these issues are also a technological challenge, not only in computer science, but also in most research domains. Computational replicability and reproducibility are not easy to achieve due to the variety of computational environments that can be used. Indeed, it is challenging to recreate the same environment via the same frameworks, code, programming languages, dependencies, and so on. We propose a framework, known as SciRep, that supports the configuration, execution, and packaging of computational experiments by defining their code, data, programming languages, dependencies, databases, and commands to be executed. After the initial configuration, the experiments can be executed any number of times, always producing exactly the same results. Our approach allows the creation of a reproducibility package for experiments from multiple scientific fields, from medicine to computer science, which can be re-executed on any computer. The produced package acts as a capsule, holding absolutely everything necessary to re-execute the experiment. To evaluate our framework, we compare it with three state-of-the-art tools and use it to reproduce 18 experiments extracted from published scientific articles. With our approach, we were able to execute 16 (89%) of those experiments, while the others reached only 61%, thus showing that our approach is effective. Moreover, all the experiments that were executed produced the results presented in the original publication. Thus, SciRep was able to reproduce 100% of the experiments it could run.
2026
Authors
Moniz, L; Melintescu, A; Neacsu, A; Azevedo, E; Barbosa, S;
Publication
Abstract
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