Constructing business simulations with service patterns

Typically, system dynamics-based simulations of business processes are constructed in an ad hoc manner, with a modeler creating low-level components and defining interrelationships one-by-one. As the numbers of process components or variables grow, the resulting model becomes ever more difficult to manage and extend. This paper discusses the definition and use of high-level business patterns that have predefined system dynamics sub-models. These patterns enable rapid construction of arbitrarily complex system dynamics models of business processes abstraction, reuse, and unification of sub-model elements.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Richard B. Lam
• Keywords: Ad Hoc Manner, Business Processes, Enable Rapid Construction, Modeling And Simulation, WSC 2008