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We investigate the question if BPMN can be used for simulation modeling by evaluating it against ABDESO, a foundational ontology for agent-based discrete event simulation. Since a simulation model is intended to capture a real-world system, BPMN, if used as the modeling language for making the simulation model, should have a “real-world semantics” based on a founda tional ontology for agent-based discrete event simulation.
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Guizzardi, G., Wagner, G. (2011). Can BPMN Be Used for Making Simulation Models?. In: Barjis, J., Eldabi, T., Gupta, A. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8_8
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