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Title: |
An Open Source Software Approach
To Combine Simulation And Optimization Of Business Processes |
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Authors: |
Mike Steglich, Christian Müller |
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(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
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Mike Steglich,
Christian Müller (2013). An Open Source Software
Approach To Combine Simulation And Optimization Of Business Processes, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0808 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0808 |
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Abstract: |
Business processes of modern companies
are characterized by a huge complexity which is
caused for example by quickly changing markets, short product life cycles or
dynamic interactions between particular subsystems of a company. Business
process management is intended to implement efficient and customer orientated
processes whereby the simulation of business processes can be used to
evaluate the quality of processes and to identify areas of improvements. Since
real business processes usually contain decision processes
which can be solved by optimization systems, it makes sense to combine
the simulation and the optimization of business processes. (Marz et.al. 2010, p 3ff.) As an example of a reasonable combined
simulation and optimization of business processes, the navigation in a road
network is discussed in this paper. Consider vehicles seeking the fastest
route from a starting node to a target node using a navigation system. The amount
of time spent driving on an arc is influenced by the distance and the amount
of the vehicles on this arc and is continuously changing. The structure of
the road network and the traffic within the network is described in a
simulation model while the fastest path decisions of each
vehicle are made by using an optimization system. There is obviously a
relationship between the individual decisions made for each of the vehicles
and the state of the entire network. The aim of this paper is to
describe how a combined simulation and optimization of business processes can
be created through using EPC-Simulator (Muller 2012) as a simulation system
and CMPL (Steglich and Schleiff
2010) as an optimization system where the network traffic simulation is used
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