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*== CALL FOR PAPERS ==*
*Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Forum*
https://bpm2022.uni-muenster.de/calls-and-dates/call-for-rpa-forum
in conjunction with the 20th Business Process Management
Conference (BPM
2022)
September 11-15, 2022, Münster, Germany
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging technology in the
field of
Business Process Management that enables the
office automation of intensive repetitive tasks. In essence, it
relates to
software agents called software robots that mimic
how humans use computer applications when performing rule-based
and well
structured tasks in a business process. Examples of
tasks that software robots perform include data transfer between
applications through screen scraping, automated email query
processing, and collation of payroll data from different sources.
RPA is drastically more than just technological innovation. It
enables a
digital taskforce and, what is more important,
a control mechanism over it. The objective for RPA also extends
beyond
cutting costs; it directly addresses the digital
transformation of companies by creating new value, improving the
quality of
services and products, reducing and controlling
task times, and improving work satisfaction by liberating
employees from
repetitive and tedious tasks. Moreover, RPA has a
generative capacity when combined with technologies such as OCR,
machine
learning, and artificial intelligence, among others,
creating new ‘smart’ automation tools.
The capabilities and opportunities of RPA challenge a broad set of
research
communities. Computer scientists are attracted to its
various technical aspects, while economists study the impact of
RPA on
labor and organizational effectiveness and engineers are
enabled to connect different data sources, improve the quality of
the data
and accelerate data analysis. Scholars in the field of
information systems are drawn to the question of how to manage the
interaction between people and software. Another question is how
RPA fits within a corporate program of digital innovation.
Finally, RPA has
social implications since it may reduce work opportunities
for those people who are carrying out simple, manual work.
This forum aims to bring together researchers from various
communities and
disciplines to discuss challenges, opportunities, and new
ideas that relate to RPA and its application to business processes
in
private and public sectors. It is a unique setting where
technical, business-oriented, and human-centered perspectives will
come
together. The forum will incorporate an exciting keynote,
presentations of research papers, and a panel discussion.
*== TOPICS OF INTEREST ==*
The forum solicits contributions related to RPA including, but not
limited,
to the following topics:
RPA Management
- Organizational expectations onRPA
- Lessons learned from RPA adoptions
- Digital transformation through RPA
- New work practices and RPA
- Impact of RPA
- Social impact of RPA
- Evolution of working environments for RPA
- Economical impact of RPA
- Organizational impact of RPA
- Changes on business models for RPA
- Legal impact of RPA
- RPA support
RPA Technology
- Viability assessment methods for RPA projects
- Benchmarking RPA
- Monitoring and auditing robots
- Governance of RPA
- RPA architectures
- RPA platforms
- RPA standardization
- RPA future
- Artificial Intelligence and RPA
- Collaborative RPA, e.g., chatbots
- Conversational interfaces for RPA
- RPA future value creation potential
- RPA and datafication
- Novel paradigms for RPA design
- Novel paradigms for RPA developments
- Novel paradigms for RPA deployments
- Novel paradigms for RPA testing
- Novel paradigms for RPA control and operation
- Generativity of RPA / RPA-based innovation
RPA Applications
- Experience reports from practice
- General RPA uses cases
- RPA in different business functions, e.g. procurement,
engineering,
controlling, manufacturing, logistics, taxation
- RPA in different industries, e.g. banking, insurance, public
government,
production of goods
- Connection with other Office Automation Applications, e.g.
Chatbots &
Online Booking Systems
*== PAPER SUBMISSION ==*
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished
papers on
any of the topics of the forum. Papers must be written
in English and must not simultaneously be submitted to another
journal,
conference, or workshop. The maximum length of the paper
is 15 pages. Shorter papers are explicitly welcomed. The following
types of
submissions are possible:
- Technical papers, describing novel research work on RPA,
including
research results and evaluations. Papers can range from
theoretical
research to empirical research. These papers must present the
ongoing
research, novel ideas with preliminary results, advances of the
state of the art, and analysis of the current results in the state
of the
art.
- Exploratory papers describe new research positions or approaches
that
face a generic situation arising because of new RPA tools,
activities, or challenges. They must describe precisely the
situation and
demonstrate why current methods, tools, ways of reasoning,
or meta-models are inadequate. They must also rigorously present
their
approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness in
addressing the identified situation. Exploratory papers would lead
to
interesting discussions by raising key questions, controversial
points of view, challenges, and ideas to address the identified
issues.
- Experience papers evaluate existing problem situations,
including
problems encountered in practice, or validate proposed solutions
with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments,
case
studies, experience reports, simulations, etc. A typical
experience paper may be submitted by a practitioner or industrial
researcher who has a compelling application or interesting case
study to share with the audience of the forum. Scientific
reflection on
problems and practices in industry also falls into this category.
Submissions must be prepared according to the format of Lecture
Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP) specified by Springer.
The title page must contain a short abstract and a list of
keywords,
preferably taking inspiration from the list of topics given above.
Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair.
*== IMPORTANT DATES ==*
Paper submission: 6 June 2022
Notification to authors: 8 July 2022
Camera Ready submission: 18 July 2022
Conference/Forum: 13-15 September 2022
Deadlines should be interpreted using the Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Time Zone.
*== PC CHAIRS ==*
Bernhard Axmann, Technical University of Ingolstadt
Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome
*== KEYNOTE SPEAKER ==*
Speaker: Tathagata Chakraborti, IBM Research
Title: Emergent Process Composition from Natural Language Inputs
*== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==*
Simone Agostinelli, Sapienza University of Rome
Aleksandre Asatiani, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Tathagata Chakraborti, IBM Research NY
Christian Czarnecki, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
Adela del Río-Ortega, University of Seville
Carmelo Del Valle, University of Seville
José González Enríquez, University of Seville
Lukas-Valentin Herm, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Hannu Jaakkola, University of Tampere
Christian Janiesch, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Andrés Jiménez Ramírez, University of Seville
Volodymyr Leno, The University of Melbourne
Tommi Mikkonen, University of Helsinki
Hajo A. Reijers, Utrecht University
Minseok Song, POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and
Technology)
Rehan Syed, Queensland University of Technology
Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University
Jonas Wanner, Universität Würzburg
Moe Wynn, Queensland University of Technology
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