On developing system dynamics model for business process simulation

Business operations can be formally described in business process models that capture activities, information, and flow embedded in business operation. System dynamics modeling is a set of conceptual tools that enable business process designers to build computer simulations of complex business process behaviors. System dynamics models provide accurate description of system behavior along the time dimension. It gives a convenient tool to conduct what if analysis though dynamics points of view. However, to develop system dynamics models requires keen understanding of the "physics" of the target business operations, business organizations, and financial structures and so on. This paper is aimed to provide heuristics and guidelines of developing system dynamics models based on given business process models along with associated reference contexts. An example, from supply chain management domain, of using business process models to derive system dynamics models is given in the paper

[1]  Boris Wyssusek,et al.  Business Process Modelling as an Element of Knowledge Management - A Model Theory Approach , 2001 .

[2]  John D. Sterman,et al.  Business dynamics : systems thinking and modelling for acomplex world , 2002 .

[3]  Jun-Jang Jeng,et al.  Web service management using system dynamics , 2005, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05).

[4]  Anil Nigam,et al.  Business artifacts: An approach to operational specification , 2003, IBM Syst. J..

[5]  J Swanson,et al.  Business Dynamics—Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World , 2002, J. Oper. Res. Soc..

[6]  Eitan Zemel,et al.  Managing Business Process Flows , 1999 .

[7]  J. Sterman Business Dynamics , 2000 .

[8]  Hans Jochen Scholl,et al.  Agent-based and system dynamics modeling: a call for cross study and joint research , 2001, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

[9]  S. D. Deshmukh,et al.  Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management , 2006 .

[10]  D. Cohn,et al.  The rise of the model-driven enterprise , 2004, IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business.