The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing environmental hotspots into actionable strategic pathways under technological, social, and policy uncertainty. To overcome this limitation, this study introduces a perspective-conditioned retrieval-augmented generation framework for LCA interpretation, where a multi-perspective retrieval and controlled synthesis is incorporated in the artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted LCA.
arXiv:2606. 26857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing environmental hotspots into actionable strategic pathways under technological, social, and policy uncertainty.
arXiv:2601. 21527v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed materials discovery, enabling rapid exploration of chemical space through generative models and surrogate screening.
arXiv:2606. 26346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic benchmarks have emerged across general-purpose and domain-specific settings, including finance, coding, law, and drug discovery, yet energy-domain evaluations remain largely limited to static knowledge recall.
arXiv:2507. 17012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reducing the rapidly growing environmental impact of the computing industry requires assessing the emissions of electronics at scale.
arXiv:2607. 22153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial health management increasingly relies on heterogeneous information sources, including condition monitoring systems, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, maintenance records, inspection results, and prognostic models.
arXiv:2607. 23082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The semiconductor sector faces a dual transition: scaling manufacturing execution through Artificial Intelligence (AI) while satisfying stringent sustainability mandates, such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
The article discusses how the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is transforming chemical engineering by influencing problem formulation, analysis, and solution across a wide range of applications, from atomic-scale simulations to industrial operations. It highlights recent methodological advances and representative uses, noting a shift from purely black-box models to hybrid and physics-informed frameworks that incorporate conservation laws, thermodynamic consistency, and structural constraints. These integrated approaches enhance robustness, reliability, and human-AI collaboration, ultimately amplifying rather than replacing core chemical engineering principles.
arXiv:2607. 24791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the dominant paradigm for applying large language models (LLMs) to enterprise document corpora, yet naive implementations encounter hard limits as corpus scale and query complexity grow.
The paper introduces a retrieval‑augmented generation framework that combines fine‑tuned open‑weight language models with a hybrid dense‑lexical retrieval pipeline to synthesize corrosion knowledge. Applied to magnesium alloy corrosion, the system achieves significant improvements in token‑level accuracy and high faithfulness and context recall, while an additional Reason Map framework constructs evidence graphs to detect causal errors that standard factuality metrics miss. The modular design is positioned as a general blueprint for trustworthy AI‑assisted knowledge synthesis across engineering domains.
arXiv:2607. 24792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy utilities still run engineering work management, engineering procurement, and inventory processes on long-lived enterprise asset management platforms.
arXiv:2606. 01613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework for domain-specific technical reasoning support, instantiated over a curated corpus of approximately 2,100 academic papers in intelligent tires, vehicle dynamics, and vehicle control.
arXiv:2606. 31366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driven by high-throughput experimentation, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence (AI), materials data has expanded at an unprecedented rate.