A Discrete-Event Simulation Metamodel for Obtaining Simulation Models from Business Process Models

摘要

Organizations need to be agile and fl exible to meet the continuouschanges. Business Process Management (BPM) is harnessing the continuouschanges suffered by organizations in the value chain and, therefore, in theirprocesses. Simulation models offer the ability to experience different decisions andanalyze their results in systems where the cost or risk of actual experimentation areprohibitive. BPMN models are not directly executable nor is it possible to simulatetheir behavior in various input parameters. This paper proposes the application ofmodel-driven engineering (MDE) to integrate the defi nition of business processeswith Discrete- Event Simulation (DES) as a tool to support decision-making.We propose a platform independent DES metamodel and a set of rules, to automaticallygenerate the simulation model from BPMN 2.0 based business process inaccordance with previous metamodel.