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Adding Decision Management to Robotic Process Automation

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Robotic Process Automation promises to release employees from repetitive and monotonous work, providing space for creative and innovative tasks. RPA tools provide a wide range of techniques to automate user interactions, including filling forms and copying values between applications. While it is accepted that decisions play an important role in business processes, they are not a first-class citizen in RPA. This paper proposes a framework and a software architecture that integrates decision management into RPA. The work is evaluated by a prototype that introduces Decision Model and Notation (DMN) capabilities to the RPA software tool UiPath by utilizing Camunda’s decision engine.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The prototype is open source and can be found on GitHub:

    https://github.com/bptlab/rpa-dmn-operation.

  2. 2.

    https://www.uipath.com/.

  3. 3.

    https://camunda.com.

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    Maximilian Völker, Simon Siegert & Mathias Weske

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    José González Enríquez

  2. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Søren Debois

  3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Peter Fettke

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Völker, M., Siegert, S., Weske, M. (2021). Adding Decision Management to Robotic Process Automation. In: González Enríquez, J., Debois, S., Fettke, P., Plebani, P., van de Weerd, I., Weber, I. (eds) Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum. BPM 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 428. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85867-4_3

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