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The Future of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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While there has been considerable industry interest in the deployment and uptake of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology, very little has been done by way of generating technological foresight into the manner in which RPA systems might evolve in the short- to medium-term. This paper seeks to fill that gap.

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    Aditya Ghose, Geeta Mahala, Simon Pulawski & Hoa Dam

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Ghose, A., Mahala, G., Pulawski, S., Dam, H. (2021). The Future of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). In: Hacid, H., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2020 Workshops. ICSOC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12632. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76352-7_28

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