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Rahul Ramachandran

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preprint2026arXiv

Collaborative Agent Reasoning Engineering (CARE): A Three-Party Design Methodology for Systematically Engineering AI Agents with Subject Matter Experts, Developers, and Helper Agents

We present Collaborative Agent Reasoning Engineering (CARE), a disciplined methodology for engineering Large Language Model (LLM) agents in scientific domains. Unlike ad-hoc trial-and-error approaches, CARE specifies behavior, grounding, tool orchestration, and verification through reusable artifacts and systematic, stage-gated phases. The methodology employs a three-party workflow involving Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs), developers, and LLM-based helper agents. These helper agents function as facilitation infrastructure, transforming informal domain intent into structured, reviewable specifications for human approval at defined gates. CARE addresses the "jagged technological frontier", characterized by uneven LLM performance, by bridging the gap between novice and expert analysts regarding domain constraints and verification practices. By generating concrete artifacts, including interaction requirements, reasoning policies, and evaluation criteria, CARE ensures agent behavior is specifiable, testable, and maintainable. Evaluation results from a scientific use case demonstrate that this stage-gated, artifact-driven methodology yields measurable improvements in development efficiency and complex-query performance.

preprint2022arXiv

Learning Context-Aware Service Representation for Service Recommendation in Workflow Composition

As increasingly more software services have been published onto the Internet, it remains a significant challenge to recommend suitable services to facilitate scientific workflow composition. This paper proposes a novel NLP-inspired approach to recommending services throughout a workflow development process, based on incrementally learning latent service representation from workflow provenance. A workflow composition process is formalized as a step-wise, context-aware service generation procedure, which is mapped to next-word prediction in a natural language sentence. Historical service dependencies are extracted from workflow provenance to build and enrich a knowledge graph. Each path in the knowledge graph reflects a scenario in a data analytics experiment, which is analogous to a sentence in a conversation. All paths are thus formalized as composable service sequences and are mined, using various patterns, from the established knowledge graph to construct a corpus. Service embeddings are then learned by applying deep learning model from the NLP field. Extensive experiments on the real-world dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the approach.

preprint2020arXiv

Machine learning model to cluster and map tribocorrosion regimes in feature space

Tribocorrosion maps serve the purpose of identifying operating conditions for acceptable rate of degradation. This paper proposes a machine learning based approach to generate tribocorrosion maps, which can be used to predict tribosystem performance. First, unsupervised machine learning is used to identify and label clusters from tribocorrosion experimental data. The identified clusters are then used to train a support vector classification model. The trained SVM is used to generate tribocorrosion maps. The generated maps are compared with the standard maps from literature.

preprint2020arXiv

Using neural networks to predict icephobic performance

Icephobic surfaces inspired by superhydrophobic surfaces offer a passive solution to the problem of icing. However, modeling icephobicity is challenging because some material features that aid superhydrophobicity can adversely affect the icephobic performance. This study presents a new approach based on artificial neural networks to model icephobicity. Artificial neural network models were developed to predict the icephobic performance of concrete. The models were trained on experimental data to predict the surface ice adhesion strength and the coefficient of restitution (COR) of water droplet bouncing off the surface under freezing conditions. The material and coating compositions, and environmental condition were used as the models' input variables. A multilayer perceptron was trained to predict COR with a root mean squared error of 0.08, and a 90% confidence interval of [0.042, 0.151]. The model had a coefficient of determination of 0.92 after deployment. Since ice adhesion strength varied over a wide range of values for the samples, a mixture density network was model was developed to learn the underlying relationship in the multimodal data. Coefficient of determination for the model was 0.96. The relative importance of the input variables in icephobic performance were calculated using permutation importance. The developed models will be beneficial to optimize icephobicity of concrete.