Business Process Automation

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Business process automation studies how to carry out and improve organizational workflows, from routine data entry to cross-department processes. Approaches include robotic process automation, rules and planning systems, process mining, BPMN models, and LLM agents that use APIs or graphical interfaces. Systems are evaluated in settings such as ERP operations, document processing, and workflow benchmarks that check policies, execution traces, and final application state. A central challenge is making automation reliable over long, multi-step tasks while preserving human oversight, compliance, and data security.

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  1. Formal Foundations of Agentic Business Process Management

    Apr 19, 2026Giuseppe De Giacomo, Timotheus Kampik, Lukas Kirchdorfer +2Business Process AutomationMulti-Agent Systems

    University of Oxford, UK · SAP, Germany · Ume˚a University, Sweden +2

  2. Intelligent Approval of Access Control Flow in Office Automation Systems via Relational Modeling

    Apr 13, 2026Dugang Liu, Zulong Chen, Chuanfei Xu +3Access ControlWorkflow Automation

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University Shenzhen, China · Alibaba Group Holding Limited Hangzhou, China · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) Shenzhen, China +1

  3. Ambiguity Detection and Elimination in Automated Executable Process Modeling

    Apr 13, 2026Ion Matei, Praveen Kumar Menaka Sekar, Maksym Zhenirovskyy +4Business Process ModelingBusiness Process Automation

    Fujitsu Research of America · University of Maryland, College Park · Fujitsu Limited

  4. Can Coding Agents Be General Agents?

    Apr 10, 2026Maksim Ivanov, Abhijay Rana, Gokul PrabhakaranCoding AgentsBusiness Process Automation

    Agentic Labs

  5. Automatic Generation of Executable BPMN Models from Medical Guidelines

    Apr 9, 2026Praveen Kumar Menaka Sekar, Ion Matei, Maksym Zhenirovskyy +4Business Process ModelingBusiness Process Automation

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA · Fujitsu Research of America, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA · Fujitsu Limited, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8588, Japan

  6. GPA: Learning GUI Process Automation from Demonstrations

    Apr 2, 2026Zirui Zhao, Jun Hao Liew, Yan Yang +5GUI AutomationBusiness Process Automation

    Salesforce AI Research

  7. Terminal Agents Suffice for Enterprise Automation

    Mar 31, 2026Patrice Bechard, Orlando Marquez Ayala, Emily Chen +5Terminal AgentsBusiness Process Automation

    ServiceNow · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Université de Montréal

  8. Adaptive Workflow Intelligence: A Cognitive Architecture for Context-Driven Enterprise Automation

    Mar 18, 2026Sreedevi Pandiyath ViswambaranCognitive Architectures for AI AgentsWorkflow Automation

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  9. Claim Automation using Large Language Model

    Feb 18, 2026Zhengda Mo, Zhiyu Quan, Eli O'Donohue +1LLM Fine-TuningBusiness Process Automation

    Actuarial and Risk Management Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · PCMI Corporation