TY  - GEN
A1  - Pufahl, Luise
A1  - Wong, Tsun Yin
A1  - Weske, Mathias
T1  - Design of an extensible BPMN process simulator
T2  - Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2017)
N2  - Business process simulation is an important means for quantitative analysis of a business process and to compare different process alternatives. With the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) being the state-of-the-art language for the graphical representation of business processes, many existing process simulators support already the simulation of BPMN diagrams. However, they do not provide well-defined interfaces to integrate new concepts in the simulation environment. In this work, we present the design and architecture of a proof-of-concept implementation of an open and extensible BPMN process simulator. It also supports the simulation of multiple BPMN processes at a time and relies on the building blocks of the well-founded discrete event simulation. The extensibility is assured by a plug-in concept. Its feasibility is demonstrated by extensions supporting new BPMN concepts, such as the simulation of business rule activities referencing decision models and batch activities.
KW  - Business process simulation
KW  - Extensibility
KW  - BPMN
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-74030-0
SN  - 978-3-319-74029-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74030-0_62
SN  - 1865-1348
VL  - 308
SP  - 782
EP  - 795
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -