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On the Performance Prediction Capabilities of the eBPMN-based Model-driven Method for Business Process Simulation

The analysis of business processes may take considerable advantage by the adoption of simulation-based techniques from the early phases of process lifecycle. Despite the fact that Modeling & Simulation (M&S) approaches have been widely recognized as a valuable solution, the remarkable effort required for their implementation and their essential complexity may limit their use in practice. In previous contributions we have proposed a model-driven method and a domain specific language, named eBPMN, for enabling the automated development and execution of business process simulations. In this paper, we analyze the performance prediction capabilities of the current implementation of the eBPMN-based model-driven method, by means of a comparison with the same capabilities provided by similar existing tools, such as BIMP and Bizagi, for a reference business process.