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Context: User assistance is generally defined as the guided assistance to a user of a software system in order to help accomplish tasks and enhance user experience. Automated user assistance systems are equipped with online help system that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Murat Acar , Bedir Tekinerdogan

DevOps is a collaborative and multidisciplinary organizational effort to automate continuous delivery of new software updates while guaranteeing their correctness and reliability. The present survey investigates and discusses DevOps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Leonardo Leite , Carla Rocha , Fabio Kon , Dejan Milojicic , Paulo Meirelles

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

Team Automata is a formalism for interacting component-based systems proposed in 1997, whereby multiple sending and receiving actions from concurrent automata can synchronise. During the past 25+ years, team automata have been studied and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Maurice H. ter Beek , Rolf Hennicker , José Proença

In this article, the concepts of transfer and continual learning are introduced. The ensuing review reveals promising approaches for industrial deep transfer learning, utilizing methods of both classes of algorithms. In the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Maschler , Michael Weyrich

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the automation of rule-based routine processes to increase efficiency and to reduce costs. Due to the utmost importance of process automation in industry, RPA attracts increasing attention in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Judith Wewerka , Manfred Reichert

Robots that support humans by performing useful tasks (a.k.a., service robots) are booming worldwide. In contrast to industrial robots, the development of service robots comes with severe software engineering challenges, since they require…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Sergio García , Daniel Strüber , Davide Brugali , Thorsten Berger , Patrizio Pelliccione

AI-Augmented Business Process Management Systems (ABPMSs) are an emerging class of process-aware information systems, empowered by trustworthy AI technology. An ABPMS enhances the execution of business processes with the aim of making these…

Algorithms for continuous optimization problems have a rich history of design and innovation over the past several decades, in which mathematical analysis of their convergence and complexity properties plays a central role. Besides their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Stephen J. Wright

This paper introduces the concept of process variants in process-aware information systems (PAIS) during the design-time phase, where multiple variants of a single process must be specified. Today's organizations have to manage multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Lisana Berberi

BPMN represents an industrial standard created to offer a common and user friendly notation to all the participants to a business process. The present paper aims to briefly present the main features of this notation as well as an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-04-24 Alexandra Fortis

Developed as a response to the increasing popularity of data-driven journalism, automated journalism refers to the process of automating the collection, production, and distribution of news content and other data with the assistance of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Wang Ngai Yeung , Tomás Dodds

Modeling processes are the activities of capturing and representing processes and control of their dynamic behavior. Desired features of the model include capture of relevant aspects of a real phenomenon, understandability, and completeness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Sabah Al-Fedaghi , Haya Alahmad

Robotics and related technologies are central to the ongoing digitization and advancement of manufacturing. In recent years, a variety of strategic initiatives around the world including "Industry 4.0", introduced in Germany in 2011 have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Lindsay Sanneman , Christopher Fourie , Julie A. Shah

Process control and optimization have been widely used to solve decision-making problems in chemical engineering applications. However, identifying and tuning the best solution algorithm is challenging and time-consuming. Machine learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use of autonomous robot systems to automate tasks in the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christian Friedrich , Akos Csiszar , Armin Lechler , Alexander Verl

The workflow is a general notion representing the automated processes along with the flow of data. The automation ensures the processes being executed in the order. Therefore, this feature attracts users from various background to build the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Muhammad H. Hilman , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

There is a resurging interest in automation because of rapid progress of machine learning and AI. In our perspective, innovation is not an exemption from their expansion. This situation gives us an opportunity to reflect on a direction of…

General Economics · Economics 2021-03-04 Piotr Tomasz Makowski , Yuya Kajikawa

The rapid increase in data volumes in companies has meant that momentous and comprehensive information gathering is barely possible by manual means. Business intelligence solutions can help here. They provide tools with appropriate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Otmane Azeroual , Horst Theel

The importance of simulation at machine level in industrial environments is steadily increasing especially in the design and commissioning phase. Using models during the operation phase together with the real machine or plant is referred to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Darius Deubert , Lars Klingel , Andreas Selig