SWARM-SLR -- Streamlined Workflow Automation for Machine-actionable Systematic Literature Reviews
Tim Wittenborg, Oliver Karras, S\"oren Auer

TL;DR
SWARM-SLR is a comprehensive workflow and software tool designed to automate and streamline the entire process of systematic literature reviews, enhancing efficiency, reproducibility, and collaboration among researchers.
Contribution
It introduces a set of 65 requirements, assesses existing tools, and synthesizes them into a unified, domain-independent workflow prototype supported by a software tool.
Findings
Workflow supports almost the entire SLR lifecycle
Supports search, retrieval, extraction, synthesis, and distribution stages
Validated by surveys confirming requirement relevance and tool effectiveness
Abstract
Authoring survey or review articles still requires significant tedious manual effort, despite many advancements in research knowledge management having the potential to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and reuse. However, these advancements bring forth an increasing number of approaches, tools, and systems, which often cover only specific stages and lack a comprehensive workflow utilizing their task-specific strengths. We propose the Streamlined Workflow Automation for Machine-actionable Systematic Literature Reviews (SWARM-SLR) to crowdsource the improvement of SLR efficiency while maintaining scientific integrity in a state-of-the-art knowledge discovery and distribution process. The workflow aims to domain-independently support researchers in collaboratively and sustainably managing the rising scholarly knowledge corpus. By synthesizing guidelines from the literature, we have…
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TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management
