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EEWC 2015: Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX pp 96–110Cite as

A Case Study of Business Process Simulation in the Context of Enterprise Engineering

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Abstract

The high failure rates occur in many real-life business process reengineering projects discovered that the current methods in business process re-design and reengineering are not effective for supporting the requirements of change. To avoid the limitations of current mainstream workflow based perspective and methodology, the authors proposed a simulation framework in the context of enterprise engineering, named DEMO++. This research aims to apply the DEMO++ based simulation in a real-world case study with the following objectives: to evaluate the advantages, potentials and limitations of DEMO++ based simulation; to further investigate how it can assist in business process change; and to find problems to be improved in the selected process of “Company C”.

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Notes

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    The business-level activities are denoted in font “Agency FB” (in bold).

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    The data-level activities are denoted in font “Agency FB”.

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    The information-level activities are denoted in font “Agency FB” (with underline).

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    [ ] represents act: [T1/pm] means act “to promise an instance of T1”.

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    ( ) represents fact: (T2/ac) means fact “an instance of T2 has been accepted”.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Yang Liu & Junichi Iijima

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

    Yang Liu

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  1. University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    David Aveiro

  2. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Robert Pergl

  3. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Michal Valenta

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Liu, Y., Iijima, J. (2015). A Case Study of Business Process Simulation in the Context of Enterprise Engineering. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Valenta, M. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX. EEWC 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19297-0_7

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