Who: Master Business Engineering + Master Business Economics

Promotor: Frederik Gailly

Problem Description

Currently there are a lot of simulation tools available. If we look at the landscape of simulation tools, we find business process management tools and business process modeling tools with simulation possibilities as well as tools specifically created for simulation purposes. All of these tools have their own limitations and advantages. In this project, the R Business Process Simulation package (BPS- package) is further developed and demonstrated. This package can be used by process analysts to simulate business process that are represented in BPMN without losing the strong analytic capabilities of R.

Research Goals

  • Further extend the R BPS package
  • Create a GUI for the packages
  • Demonstrate the use of the package
  • Write a tutorial for using the package

References

  1. van der Aalst, W. M. P., Nakatumba, J., Rozinat, A., & Russell, N. (2010). Business Process Simulation. In J. vom Brocke & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Handbook on Business Process Management 1 (pp. 313–338). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00416-2_15
  2. van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2011). Business Process Simulation Revisited. In J. Barjis (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing(Vol. 88, pp. 173–191). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8
  3. Jansen-Vullers, M.H. and Netjes , K. (2006). Business Process Simulation – A Tool Survey. Eindhoven University of Technology.
  4. Martin, N. et al.: The Use of Process Mining in Business Process Simulation Model Construction. Bus. Inf. Syst. Eng. 58, 1, 73–87 (2015).
  5. <https://github.com/fgailly/BPS-package>