Empowering business process simulation through automated model transformations
Posted by andrea.dambrogio on Monday, 21 November 2016
| Title | Empowering business process simulation through automated model transformations |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Bocciarelli, P., Andrea D'Ambrogio, A. Giglio, E. Paglia, and D. Gianni |
| Conference Name | Simulation Series |
| Publisher | The Society for Modeling and Simulation International |
| ISBN Number | 9781632662156 |
| Keywords | Administrative data processing, BPM, BPMN, Computer simulation, Computer simulation languages, EBPMN, Enterprise resource management, Mathematical models, MDA, Model transformation, Problem oriented languages, Semantics, Software architecture, Technology transfer |
| Abstract | Simulation is one of the most relevant techniques that can be used in the business process management domain to effectively enact a continuous enhancement of business processes (BPs). However, the effectiveness of BP simulation is still limited for several reasons (e.g., lack of simulation know-how of BP analysts, simulation model parameters hard to determine, semantic gap between the business process model and the simulation model). To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a model-driven method that introduces a set of model transformations to automate the generation of executable simulation code of a BP from its abstract definition in BPMN, the standard language for specifying business processes. The simulation code is specified in eBPMN, a Java-based domain-specific language that has been designed and implemented according to the BPMN execution semantics. |
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