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Planning of Composite Logistics Services: Model-Driven Engineering and Evaluation

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Tactical planning of composite services in heterogeneous logistics networks is facing two major problems. First, existing planning methods lack in concreteness as they instruct to compare different alternatives of possible composite services in order to find the best solution, but they do not state how to develop and engineer those alternatives. Second, the planning and evaluation of composite services via simulation is difficult, because services are offered and processed by different logistics service providers of the network and thus are based on different information sources and different kind of models. In this paper both issues are addressed with a comprehensive method. Engineering is supported by the service map that is an electronic catalog and construction system for services to create alternatives of process models from composite services automatically. Evaluation is assisted by an automated transformation of process models to simulation models. Information exchange between both concepts is realized with a model-driven integration approach.

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The work presented in this paper was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the project LSEM (BMBF 03IPT504X).

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    Michael Glöckner, Stefan Mutke & Christoph Augenstein

  2. Kühne Logistics University, Großer Grasbrook 17, 20457, Hamburg, Germany

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Glöckner, M., Mutke, S., Augenstein, C., Ludwig, A. (2015). Planning of Composite Logistics Services: Model-Driven Engineering and Evaluation. In: Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Teniente, E., Camp, O., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_18

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