A Student Guide to Robotic Process Automation and Intelligent Automation

Exercises, Case Studies, and Real-World Examples
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-36187-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This book provides a clear and engaging introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA), combining technical foundations, practical decision-making, and real-world insights.

It demystifies automation, offering readers the tools to understand and navigate the growing role of RPA in modern organizations. Covering a wide range of topics, the book explores the evolution of automation, the differences between rule-based and cognitive bots, and how to identify processes suitable for automation. Readers will gain hands-on experience through exercises like building their first bot and will learn from real-world case studies of RPA successes and challenges. Ethical considerations, governance, and the future of automation are also addressed, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of the field. Each chapter is designed to bridge theory and practice, making complex concepts approachable and actionable.  This book is structured to be core or supplementary reading for courses at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level in a variety of fields, including computer science, business management and administration, data science, and software engineering.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekanayake, Jeeva

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why do we need software bots? 2. From Clicks to Bots 3. Meet the Bots: A Tour of Popular RPA Tools 4. Not Everything Should Be Automated 5. Bots That Follow Rules vs Bots That Think 6. When Bots Go Right and Wrong 7. Let’s Build a Bot 8. Real-World RPA 9. Humans, Bots and the Future of the Work 10. Capstone RPA Projects and Portfolio Guide

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Jeeva Ekanayake is a Senior Academic in Software Engineering and a Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka. Her research is driven by solving real-world problems through understanding people’s needs and creating practical, evidence-based digital solutions that make a tangible difference. Before transitioning to academia, she gained over eight years of industry experience in software development projects to deliver high-quality software solutions. Her teaching is in to AI-assisted Software Engineering, User Experience Engineering, Software Quality Assurance and Testing, and Robotic Process Automation. She is actively engaged in publishing research in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and contributes to curriculum development, research supervision, and industry–academia collaboration