An approach on long running business process modelling and simulation

Abstract

It is mandatory for organizations to keep up with rapid and continuous changes to their business processes to be competitive. Business process simulation is a preferred way to improve these changes. Many business processes can start with partially filled data and run for a few days or even longer. Such business processes are defined as long running business processes. However, business process simulation treat such processes the same as other processes and do not fully evaluate the real world situation. A change in the context of the long running business process can interrupt or compensate it without violating any business process constraints. Furthermore, such business process simulation should not compute redundant results. Therefore, an approach for long running business process modelling and simulation should be developed to adopt these circumstances. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that allows an active simulation to handle long running business processes and avoid redundant operation activation by using event based models. Throughout this paper, we use the word saga to define long running business processes.