IFPS-RPA: Interface-based Frequent Pattern Segmentation for Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technique that enables businesses to automate everyday actions (also known as routines) carried out by human users on their computer systems’ application User Interfaces (UI). The UI log can store data on different routines, with their operations interspersed in a fashion that mirrors the order in which the user conducted them. It is difficult to automate the assignment of user’s actions to particular procedures in UI log. This presents log segmentation issue. In this paper, we present a method for automatically deriving the routine behaviors (i.e. segments) as recorded in an unsegmented log. The method was applied and compared to a state-of-the-art method over different UI logs. The results are presented in detail and show improvements in accuracy, execution time, and memory consumption.