This article discusses the process of academic mobility and its influence on both academic and professional contexts from the authors perspective and experience.
The objectives to be achieved with this Doctoral Thesis are: 1. Perform a study of the state of the art of the different existing solutions for the entity reconciliation of heterogeneous data sources, checking if they are being used in real environments. 2. Define and develop a Framework for designing the entity reconciliation models by a...
Medium and big organizations have embraced RPA in the last years bringing to light the high maturity of the technology. Current trends are towards including "human-in-the-loop" which promotes efficient ways for robot-human interaction. This is especially relevant since most real RPA projects require a collaboration between the human and the...
Medium and big organizations have embraced RPA in the last years bringing to light the high maturity of the technology. Current trends are towards including "human-in-the-loop" which promotes efficient ways for robot-human interaction. This is especially relevant since most real RPA projects require a collaboration between the human and the...
Public funding, being the primary source for innovation, imposes restrictions caused by a lack of trust between the roles of public funders and organisations in the innovation process. Capability and maturity innovation assessment models can improve the process by combining both roles to create an agile and trusting environment. This paper aims...
The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) paradigm has received increasing attention in recent years. It enables task automation by software components which interact with user interfaces in a similar way to that of humans. An RPA project follows a similar lifecycle as a software project. However, in certain contexts (e.g., business process...
With the birth of the Big and Open Data new business opportunities have been created in which the handling of a great quantity of information and its quality, positions any company with clear advantage with respect to its competitors. However, when working with large volumes of data, we find a very important problem called entity...
The use of prototypes as an excellent mechanism for communication between software users has been fully accepted in the literature. Both the academic and business worlds agree on its use as a software technique, used primarily to capture requirements and as a means of communication with the user. However, often, prototypes are developed very...
Process automation typically begins with the observation of humans conducting the tasks that will be eventually automated. Sim ilarly, successful RPA projects require a prior analysis of the undergo ing processes which are being executed by humans. The process of col lecting this type of information is known as user interface (UI) logging since...
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a discipline that is increasingly growing hand in hand with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning enabling the so-called cognitive automation. In such context, the existing RPA platforms that include AI-based solutions clas sify their components, i.e. constituting part of a robot that performs...
Nowadays, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are being widely applied in virtually all possible scenarios. However, developing a ML project entails the effort of many ML experts who have to select and configure the appropriate algorithm to process the data to learn from, between other things. Since there exist thousands of algorithms, it becomes...
Software organizations are very conscious that deployments of well-defined software processes improve software product development and its quality. Over last decade, many Software Process Modeling Languages (SPMLs) have been proposed to describe and manage software processes. However, each one presents advantages and disadvantages. The main...
La Automatización Robótica de Procesos (RPA) ha ganado especial atención en los últimos años tanto en la industria como en la academia. RPA surge como una forma de automatizar tareas humanas mundanas y repetitivas. En comparación con la automatización tradicional, RPA requiere un menor nivel de intrusión en la infraestructura informática. Una...
Recent studies show that the success rate of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects is between 50 and 70%. In cases where they are not successful, most failures are caused by organizational factors, i.e., people and their social environment. People in the organization have a significant influence on the success of a RPA project. Likewise,...
Within the development of software systems, the development of web applications may be one of the most widespread at present due to the great number of advantages they provide such as: multiplatform, speed of access or the not requiring extremely powerful hardware among others. The fact that so many web applications are being developed,...