A business process simulation method supporting resource evolution

Business process simulation is the procedure of planning, modeling and simulating enterprise process to analyze the features varying with time which guides the users to make decisions or important means of process improvement. In the existing simulation methods, they considered little about dynamic resource, which may lead to a large deviation. To solve the problem above, a business process simulation method supporting resource evolution that mainly focuses on human resource is proposed. Individual differences and personnel composition are analyzed to represent the dynamic feature of resources. Evolution of human capacity and personnel changes are described to meet the simulation requirements of human resource model. And then, process simulation mechanism and algorithm are realized. An experiment is conducted by simulating the software development process of a real-world software project using the system prototype we developed, and it shows that our method is closer to the practical project situation, thus the method effectiveness can be demonstrated to a certain extent. The main contribution of our work is a novel process simulation approach based on a dynamic resource model with configurable evolution rules.