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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Alejandro Duque , Abdullah Syed , Kastan V. Day , Matthew J. Berry , Daniel S. Katz , Volodymyr V. Kindratenko

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology for centralized automation of business processes. RPA automates user interaction with graphical user interfaces, whereby it promises efficiency gains and a reduction of human negligence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Christian Wellmann , Matthias Stierle , Sebastian Dunzer , Martin Matzner

In this paper we present the Process-To-Text (P2T) framework for the automatic generation of textual descriptive explanations of processes. P2T integrates three AI paradigms: process mining for extracting temporal and structural information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yago Fontenla-Seco , Alberto Bugarín-Diz , Manuel Lama

Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is an emerging technology with a primary goal to assist the knowledge worker by taking care of repetitive, routine and low-cognitive tasks. Conversational agents that can interact with users in a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Alena Moiseeva , Dietrich Trautmann , Michael Heimann , Hinrich Schütze

This paper presents the development of an AI-powered workflow that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist in drafting schematic architectural floor plans from natural language prompts. The proposed system interprets textual input to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jayakrishna Duggempudi , Lu Gao , Ahmed Senouci , Zhe Han , Yunpeng Zhang

While intelligent virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant have become ubiquitous in modern life, they still face limitations in their ability to follow multi-step instructions and accomplish complex goals articulated in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yanchu Guan , Dong Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Shiyu Wang , Feiyue Ni , Ruihua Song , Longfei Li , Jinjie Gu , Chenyi Zhuang

Automating enterprise workflows could unlock $4 trillion/year in productivity gains. Despite being of interest to the data management community for decades, the ultimate vision of end-to-end workflow automation has remained elusive. Current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Michael Wornow , Avanika Narayan , Krista Opsahl-Ong , Quinn McIntyre , Nigam H. Shah , Christopher Re

Cognitive computing models offer a formal and interpretable way to characterize human's deliberation and decision-making, yet their development remains labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose NL2CA, a novel method for auto-formalizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zihao Deng , Yijia Li , Renrui Zhang , Peijun Ye

Process mining (PM) aims to construct, from event logs, process maps that can help discover, automate, improve, and monitor organizational processes. Robotic process automation (RPA) uses software robots to perform some tasks usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Najah Mary El-Gharib , Daniel Amyot

One of the more prominent trends within Industry 4.0 is the drive to employ Robotic Process Automation (RPA), especially as one of the elements of the Lean approach. The full implementation of RPA is riddled with challenges relating both to…

Process modeling is a sub-domain of Business Process Management (BPM) focused on the translation of process artifacts into formal models. This task traditionally requires extensive human input and domain expertise in both BPM notations and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Anton Antonov , Humam Kourani , Alessandro Berti , Gyunam Park

This paper presents an intelligent work automation approach in the context of contemporary digital transformation by integrating generative AI and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) technologies with an Automation Agent to realize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Cheonsu Jeong , Seongmin Sim , Hyoyoung Cho , Sungsu Kim , Byounggwan Shin

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has emerged as a game-changing technology in data extraction, revolutionizing the way organizations process and analyze large volumes of documents such as invoices, purchase orders, and payment advices. This…

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Classical AI Planning techniques generate sequences of actions for complex tasks. However, they lack the ability to understand planning tasks when provided using natural language. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in automating the design of agentic workflows. However, existing methods still rely heavily on manually predefined operators, limiting generalization and scalability. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mingming Zhao , Xiaokang Wei , Yuanqi Shao , Kaiwen Zhou , Lin Yang , Siwei Rao , Junhui Zhan , Zhitang Chen

At present, executable visual workflows have emerged as a mainstream paradigm in real-world industrial deployments, offering strong reliability and controllability. However, in current practice, such workflows are almost entirely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yi Zhong , Buqiang Xu , Yijun Wang , Zifei Shan , Shuofei Qiao , Guozhou Zheng , Ningyu Zhang

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology to automate routine work such as copying data across applications or filling in document templates using data from multiple applications. RPA tools allow organizations to automate a wide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Volodymyr Leno , Adriano Augusto , Marlon Dumas , Marcello La Rosa , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Artem Polyvyanyy

Autonomous business processes (ABPs), i.e., self-executing workflows leveraging AI/ML, have the potential to improve operational efficiency, reduce errors, lower costs, improve response times, and free human workers for more strategic and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Peter Fettke , Fabiana Fournier , Lior Limonad , Andreas Metzger , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma , Barbara Weber

The automated generation of research workflows is essential for improving the reproducibility of research and accelerating the paradigm of "AI for Science". However, existing methods typically extract merely fragmented procedural components…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

Machine-learning based generation of process models from natural language text process descriptions provides a solution for the time-intensive and expensive process discovery phase. Many organizations have to carry out this phase, before…

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