Learning to act: a Reinforcement Learning approach to recommend the best next activities

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Main Authors: Branchi, Stefano, Di Francescomarino, Chiara, Ghidini, Chiara, Massimo, David, Ricci, Francesco, Ronzani, Massimiliano
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Published: 2022
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author Branchi, Stefano
Di Francescomarino, Chiara
Ghidini, Chiara
Massimo, David
Ricci, Francesco
Ronzani, Massimiliano
author_facet Branchi, Stefano
Di Francescomarino, Chiara
Ghidini, Chiara
Massimo, David
Ricci, Francesco
Ronzani, Massimiliano
contents The rise of process data availability has recently led to the development of data-driven learning approaches. However, most of these approaches restrict the use of the learned model to predict the future of ongoing process executions. The goal of this paper is moving a step forward and leveraging available data to learning to act, by supporting users with recommendations derived from an optimal strategy (measure of performance). We take the optimization perspective of one process actor and we recommend the best activities to execute next, in response to what happens in a complex external environment, where there is no control on exogenous factors. To this aim, we investigate an approach that learns, by means of Reinforcement Learning, the optimal policy from the observation of past executions and recommends the best activities to carry on for optimizing a Key Performance Indicator of interest. The validity of the approach is demonstrated on two scenarios taken from real-life data.
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spellingShingle Learning to act: a Reinforcement Learning approach to recommend the best next activities
Branchi, Stefano
Di Francescomarino, Chiara
Ghidini, Chiara
Massimo, David
Ricci, Francesco
Ronzani, Massimiliano
Artificial Intelligence
The rise of process data availability has recently led to the development of data-driven learning approaches. However, most of these approaches restrict the use of the learned model to predict the future of ongoing process executions. The goal of this paper is moving a step forward and leveraging available data to learning to act, by supporting users with recommendations derived from an optimal strategy (measure of performance). We take the optimization perspective of one process actor and we recommend the best activities to execute next, in response to what happens in a complex external environment, where there is no control on exogenous factors. To this aim, we investigate an approach that learns, by means of Reinforcement Learning, the optimal policy from the observation of past executions and recommends the best activities to carry on for optimizing a Key Performance Indicator of interest. The validity of the approach is demonstrated on two scenarios taken from real-life data.
title Learning to act: a Reinforcement Learning approach to recommend the best next activities
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15398