ABSTRACT
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 323 Current Practices in Business Process Simulation ............................................. 324
BPM Cycle ................................................................................................ 325 Methodology for Business Process Simulation ................................................. 326
Preliminary Analysis ................................................................................. 326 Modeling and Testing ............................................................................... 327 Output Analysis ........................................................................................ 327 Technical Requirements ............................................................................ 327
Business Process Simulation .............................................................................. 328 General Purpose Discrete Event Simulation ............................................. 328 Petri Network-Based Simulation Support Solutions ................................ 328 Simulation with EPCs ............................................................................... 329
Rethinking Process Simulation .......................................................................... 329 PROSIT Simulation Tool ................................................................................... 330
The PROSIT Model .................................................................................. 330 The PROSIT Simulator Architecture ........................................................ 331 Implementation Algorithm ........................................................................ 333
Concluding Remarks and Open Research Questions ......................................... 333 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. 334 References .......................................................................................................... 334
The dynamic nature of the business environment today requires fl exibility so that enterprises may revise their structure and reorganize their workfl ows rapidly [1]. Process-oriented approaches are emerging as a way to optimize business processes and rationalize interactions among enterprise departments to make way for changes in work practices and arrangements [1-3].
