Automated Discovery of Data Transformations for Robotic Process Automation

Understand

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology for automating repetitive routines consisting of sequences of user interactions with one or more applications.

• In order to fully exploit the opportunities opened by RPA, companies need to discover which specific routines may be automated, and how.
• In this setting, this paper addresses the problem of analyzing User Interaction (UI) logs in order to discover routines where a user transfers data from one spreadsheet or (Web) form to another.
• The paper maps this problem to that of discovering data transformations by example - a problem for which several techniques are available.