Analysing a process landscape by simulation

Abstract One purpose of analysing process models is to identify possible process improvements. Process modelling serves as a precondition for process model analysis. In this paper, we discuss how to model a process landscape at different levels of abstraction in order to do some static analysis. A process landscape consists of a set of hierarchically structured models for (distributed) processes. First we introduce the “Process Landscaping” method, which allows us to simulate different aspects of a complex set of processes. Afterwards, we focus on several simulation requirements and parameters needed to check consistency conditions and to analyse communication aspects of a given software process landscape. An example process landscape describes the development of e-business applications taking place at different locations.

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