A Language for Enabling Model-Driven Analysis of Business Processes

Paolo Bocciarelli, Andrea D’Ambrogio, Emiliano Paglia

2014

Abstract

The use of simulation-based approaches for the analysis of business processes enables the design-time prediction of the process behavior and/or the operation-time process reconfiguration. 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 that can be hard to gather, large semantic gap between the business process model and the simulation model). To overcome such limitations, this paper introduces a model-driven method to automatically build the executable simulation code of a business process from its abstract definition in BPMN, the standard language for specifying business processes. The simulation code is specified in eBPMN, a novel domain-specific language that has been designed and implemented according to the BPMN execution semantics.

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Bocciarelli P., D’Ambrogio A. and Paglia E. (2014). A Language for Enabling Model-Driven Analysis of Business Processes . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 325-332. DOI: 10.5220/0004712603250332


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@conference{modelsward14,
author={Paolo Bocciarelli and Andrea D’Ambrogio and Emiliano Paglia},
title={A Language for Enabling Model-Driven Analysis of Business Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={325-332},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004712603250332},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - A Language for Enabling Model-Driven Analysis of Business Processes
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Bocciarelli P.
AU - D’Ambrogio A.
AU - Paglia E.
PY - 2014
SP - 325
EP - 332
DO - 10.5220/0004712603250332