Open and Extensible Business Process Simulator
Name
Karl Blum
Abstract
Existing business process simulation tools suffer from two limitations: (i) they allow one to simulate processes that are designed only in the same tool; and (ii) the simulation engine is built-in and it is not extensible. The aim of this thesis is to move towards overcoming these two limitations. The contribution of the thesis is twofold. First we provide some of the commonly used Business Process Notation (BPMN) mappings to Coloured Petri Net (CPN) modules while considering the need to use these converted models for simulation purposes. This means that the mappings have to be able to handle simulation data and can generate simulation output into log files. Secondly we provide a new process model converter architecture that is open and extensible and it is responsible for generating a ready to simulate CPN
models.
Graduation Thesis language
English
Graduation Thesis type
Master - Information Technology
Supervisor(s)
Luciano Garcia-Banuelos
Defence year
2010