SIMONE AGOSTINELLI

Dottore di ricerca

ciclo: XXXIV

supervisore: Andrea Marrella

Titolo della tesi: Generating Executable Robotic Process Automation Scripts from Unsegmented User Interface Logs

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging automation technology in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) that creates software (SW) robots to partially or fully automate rule-based and repetitive tasks (or simply routines) performed by human users in their applications’ user interfaces (UIs). RPA tools are able to capture in dedicated UI logs the execution of many routines of interest. A UI log consists of user actions that are mixed in some order that reflects the particular order of their execution by the user, thus potentially belonging to different routines. Moreover, when considering state-of-the-art RPA technology, it becomes apparent that the current generation of RPA tools is driven by predefined rules and manual configurations made by expert users rather than automated techniques. Towards this direction, this thesis tries to mitigate the involvement of skilled human experts, throughout the development of (i) an interactive approach to the automated segmentation of UI logs (i.e., the challenge to automatically understand which user actions contribute to which routines inside a UI log), and (ii) the SmartRPA approach to the automated identification of the variation points of a routine, to enable the selection of the most suitable routine variants to be implemented with a SW robot directly from a UI log, thus skipping completely the manual modeling activity of the flowchart diagrams. Both the approaches are implemented and evaluated employing both synthetic and real-world datasets.

Produzione scientifica

11573/1733277 - 2025 - SmartRPA: Generating software robots from user interface logs

Agostinelli, S.; Hohenadl, T.; Marrella, A.; Martinez-Rojas, A. - 01a Articolo in rivista

rivista: SOFTWAREX ([Amsterdam] : Elsevier B.V.) pp. - - issn: 2352-7110 - wos: WOS:001392059500001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85212559474 (0)

11573/1724587 - 2024 - An End-To-End Execution of a Logistic Process in an AI-Augmented Business Process Management System

Acitelli, G.; Agostinelli, S.; Casciani, A.; Marrella, A. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 3rd International Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era, PMAI 2024 (Santiago de Compostela; Spain)

libro: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era (PMAI 2024) - ()

11573/1718091 - 2024 - A Context-Aware Framework to Support Decision-Making in Production Planning

Agostinelli, S.; Benvenuti, D.; Casciani, A.; De Luzi, F.; Marinacci, M.; Marrella, A.; Rossi, J. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Limassol; Cyprus)

libro: Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 36th International Conference, CAiSE 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3–7, 2024, Proceedings - (9783031610561; 9783031610578)

11573/1724598 - 2024 - DIS-PIPE: A Tool for Data Pipeline Discovery

Agostinelli, S.; Benvenuti, D.; Marrella, A.; Rossi, J. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Process Mining (Copenhagen; Denmark)

libro: Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2024 at the International Conference on Process Mining 2024 (ICPM-D 2024) - ()

11573/1727940 - 2024 - Supporting business confidentiality in coopetitive scenarios: The B-CONFIDENT approach in blockchain-based supply chains

Agostinelli, Simone; Arman, Ala; De Luzi, Francesca; Monti, Flavia; Manglaviti, Michele; Mecella, Massimo - 01a Articolo in rivista

rivista: JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION INTEGRATION (Amsterdam : Elsevier B.V.) pp. - - issn: 2452-414X - wos: WOS:001368617500001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85210141308 (1)

11573/1685235 - 2023 - BinTraWine - Blockchain, Tracking and Tracing solutions for Wine

Agostinelli, S.; De Luzi, F.; Manglaviti, M.; Mecella, M.; Monti, F.; Petriccione, F. M.; Mesenzani, M.; Pollini, A.; Verioli, A.; Amadio, U. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Zaragoza; Spain)

libro: Proceedings of the Research Projects Exhibition Papers Presented at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023) - ()

11573/1667983 - 2023 - Process mining meets model learning: Discovering deterministic finite state automata from event logs for business process analysis

Agostinelli, Simone; Chiariello, Francesco; Maggi, Fabrizio Maria; Marrella, Andrea; Patrizi, Fabio - 01a Articolo in rivista

rivista: INFORMATION SYSTEMS (Elsevier Science Limited:Oxford Fulfillment Center, PO Box 800, Kidlington Oxford OX5 1DX United Kingdom:011 44 1865 843000, 011 44 1865 843699, EMAIL: asianfo@elsevier.com, tcb@elsevier.co.UK, INTERNET: http://www.elsevier.com, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/shpsa/, Fax: 011 44 1865 843010) pp. - - issn: 0306-4379 - wos: WOS:000973565000001 (6) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85147254086 (15)

11573/1660839 - 2022 - A Data-Centric Approach to Design Resilient-Aware Process Models in BPMN

Agostinelli, S.; De Luzi, F.; Di Canito, U.; Ferraro, J.; Marrella, A.; Mecella, M. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference in Business Process Management (Munster; Germany)

libro: Business Process Management Forum BPM 2022 Forum, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings - (978-3-031-16170-4; 978-3-031-16171-1)

11573/1665064 - 2022 - Intelligent Robotic Process Automation: Generating Executable RPA Scripts from Unsegmented UI Logs

Agostinelli, S.; Marrella, A. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 2022 Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era, PMAI 2022 (Wien, Austria)

libro: Proceedings of the Workshop on Process Management in the AI Era (PMAI 2022) co-located with 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022) - ()

11573/1664959 - 2022 - Mastering Robotic Process Automation with Process Mining

Agostinelli, S.; Marrella, A.; Abb, L.; Rehse, J. -R. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference in Business Process Management (Münster; Germany)

libro: Business Process Management 20th International Conference, BPM 2022, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings - (978-3-031-16102-5; 978-3-031-16103-2)

11573/1683328 - 2022 - A Human-in-the-Loop Approach to Support the Segments Compliance Analysis

Agostinelli, S; Acitelli, G; Capece, M; Mecella, M - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference in Business Process Management (Münster; Germany)

libro: Business Process Management: Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, and Central and Eastern Europe Forum BPM 2022 Blockchain, RPA, and CEE Forum, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings - (978-3-031-16167-4; 978-3-031-16168-1)

11573/1660838 - 2022 - Reactive synthesis of software robots in RPA from user interface logs

Agostinelli, Simone; Lupia, Marco; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 01a Articolo in rivista

rivista: COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY (Elsevier BV:PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam Netherlands:011 31 20 4853757, 011 31 20 4853642, 011 31 20 4853641, EMAIL: nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl, INTERNET: http://www.elsevier.nl, Fax: 011 31 20 4853598) pp. - - issn: 0166-3615 - wos: WOS:000828685000005 (14) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85133502961 (28)

11573/1603286 - 2021 - Discovering declarative process model behavior from event logs via model learning

Agostinelli, S.; Bergami, G.; Fiorenza, A.; Maggi, F. M.; Marrella, A.; Patrizi, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Process Mining (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

libro: 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021 - (978-1-6654-3514-7)

11573/1603521 - 2021 - Exploring the Challenge of Automated Segmentation in Robotic Process Automation

Agostinelli, S.; Marrella, A.; Mecella, M. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (Cyprus)

libro: Research Challenges in Information Science 15th International Conference, RCIS 2021, Limassol, Cyprus, May 11–14, 2021, Proceedings - (978-3-030-75017-6; 978-3-030-75018-3)

11573/1621032 - 2021 - Big Data Pipeline Discovery through Process Mining: Challenges and Research Directions

Agostinelli, Simone; Benvenuti, Dario; De Luzi, Francesca; Marrella, Andrea - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 1st Italian Forum on Business Process Management, ITBPM 2021 (Rome; Italy)

libro: ITBPM 2021 Italian Forum on Business Process Management 2021 - ()

11573/1603284 - 2021 - Interactive Segmentation of User Interface Logs

Agostinelli, Simone; Leotta, Francesco; Marrella, Andrea - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (Dubai)

libro: Service-Oriented Computing 19th International Conference, ICSOC 2021, Virtual Event, November 22–25, 2021, Proceedings. - (978-3-030-91430-1; 978-3-030-91431-8)

11573/1603288 - 2021 - SmartRPA: A Tool to Reactively Synthesize Software Robots from User Interface Logs

Agostinelli, Simone; Lupia, Marco; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Melbourne; Australia)

libro: Intelligent Information Systems CAiSE Forum 2021, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, June 28 – July 2, 2021, Proceedings - (978-3-030-79107-0; 978-3-030-79108-7)

11573/1603527 - 2021 - Automated Segmentation of User Interface Logs

Agostinelli, Simone; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 02a Capitolo o Articolo

libro: Robotic Process Automation. Management, Technology, Applications - (9783110676693)

11573/1440904 - 2020 - Automated Generation of Executable RPA Scripts from User Interface Logs

Agostinelli, S.; Lupia, M.; Marrella, A.; Mecella, M. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: Blockchain Forum and Robotic Process Automation, RPA Forum, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020 (Seville; Spain)

libro: Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum - (978-3-030-58778-9; 978-3-030-58779-6)

11573/1446323 - 2020 - Supporting Governance in Healthcare Through Process Mining: A Case Study

Agostinelli, Simone; Covino, Federico; D'agnese, Giampaolo; De Crea, Carmela; Leotta, Francesco; Marrella, Andrea - 01a Articolo in rivista

rivista: IEEE ACCESS (Piscataway NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) pp. 186012-186025 - issn: 2169-3536 - wos: WOS:000582586100001 (13) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85102839411 (19)

11573/1402817 - 2020 - Towards intelligent robotic process automation for BPMers

Agostinelli, Simone; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: AAAI-20 Workshop on Intelligent Process Automation (IPA’20) (New York, USA)

libro: Proceedings of the AAAI-20 Workshop on Intelligent Process Automation (IPA’20) - ()

11573/1290908 - 2019 - Achieving GDPR compliance of BPMN process models

Agostinelli, S.; Maggi, F. M.; Marrella, A.; Sapio, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2019 (Rome; Italy)

libro: Information Systems Engineering in Responsible Information Systems - (978-3-030-21296-4; 978-3-030-21297-1)

11573/1316296 - 2019 - Generating Personalized Narrative Experiences in Interactive Storytelling through Automated Planning

Agostinelli, Simone; Federica, Battaglini; Catarci, Tiziana; Dal Falco, Federica; Marrella, Andrea - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: CHITALY 2019 : The Biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter (Padova)

libro: Adjunt Proceedings of the 13th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2019) - (9788854951488)

11573/1334110 - 2019 - Verifying Petri Net-Based Process Models using Automated Planning

Agostinelli, Simone; Maggi, Fabrizio Maria; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 23rd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC Workshop 2019 (Paris; France)

libro: 23rd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC Workshops 2019 - (978-1-7281-4598-3)

11573/1347078 - 2019 - A User Evaluation of Process Discovery Algorithms in a Software Engineering Company

Agostinelli, Simone; Maggi, Fabrizio Maria; Marrella, Andrea; Milani, Fredrik - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: 23rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, EDOC 2019 (Paris; France)

libro: 2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) - (978-1-7281-2702-6)

11573/1347090 - 2019 - Research Challenges for Intelligent Robotic Process Automation

Agostinelli, Simone; Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume

congresso: The 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019 (Vienna; Austria)

libro: Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2019 International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, September 1–6, 2019, Revised Selected Papers - (978-3-030-37452-5; 978-3-030-37453-2)