Aging infrastructure systems, including bridges, roads, tunnels, pipelines, substations, and utility corridors, present growing inspection and maintenance challenges for public agencies and asset owners, particularly under conditions of deferred maintenance, aging assets, and constrained renewal budgets (American Socie...
Public expenditure systems are essential to state capacity and public trust but remain vulnerable to errors, weak competition, inflated contracts, collusive behavior, and other indicators of waste or potential fraud. Traditional oversight is often retrospective, manual, and limited by fragmented data and rigid rule-bas...
Escalating healthcare costs continue to challenge hospitals, insurers, and patients, while administrative complexity and fragmented operational workflows limit the effectiveness of traditional cost-control strategies. This manuscript introduces a conceptual framework for AI-assisted optimization of hospital resource ma...
