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Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Improved Business Processes

Author : Ebrahimi, Maryam

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 13,60 MB

Release : 2018-01-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1522532277

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Book Description

Companies are constantly faced with the need to grow and advance in order to compete with other corporations. The implementation of computer innovations allows for smoother transitions to adaptive changes through the use and understanding of analytical tools. Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Improved Business Processes is a critical scholarly resource that examines the systems currently implemented in companies and how they can be upgraded and advanced through various computer design methods. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics including scenario planning, casual modeling, and system dynamics, this publication is targeted toward researchers, professionals, and engineers searching for current research on corporate innovations created through computer design methods.



Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Design:

Author : Manuel Laguna, Johan Marklund

Publisher : Pearson Education India

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 24,28 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Business planning

ISBN : 9332511705

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Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Design covers the design of business processes from a broad quantitative modeling perspective. The text presents a multitude of analytical tools that can be used to model, analyze, understand and ultimately, to design business processes. The range of topics in this text include graphical flowcharting tools, deterministic models for cycle time analysis and capacity decisions, analytical queuing methods, as well as the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for benchmarking purposes. And a major portion of the book is devoted to simulation modeling using a state of the art discrete-event simulation package.



Business Process Management

Author : Wil, van der Aalst

Publisher : Springer

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 49,81 MB

Release : 2003-07-31

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540455949

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Book Description

Business processes are among today's hottest topics in the science and practice of information systems. Business processes and workflow management systems attract a lot of attention from R&D professionals in software engineering, information systems, business-oriented computer science, and management sciences. The carefully reviewed chapters contributed to this state-of-the-art survey by internationally leading scientists consolidate work presented at various workshops on the topic organized by the editors of the book in the past few years. The book spans the whole spectrum of business process management ranging from theoretical aspects, conceptual models, and application scenarios to implementation issues. It will become a valuable source of reference and information for R&D professionals active in the fascinating interdisciplinary area of business process management and for ambitious practitioners.



Modeling Business Processes

Author : Wil Van Der Aalst, M.P.

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 399 pages

File Size : 11,57 MB

Release : 2011-05-27

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0262015382

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Book Description

An introduction to the modeling of business information systems, with processes formally modeled using Petri nets. This comprehensive introduction to modeling business-information systems focuses on business processes. It describes and demonstrates the formal modeling of processes in terms of Petri nets, using a well-established theory for capturing and analyzing models with concurrency. The precise semantics of this formal method offers a distinct advantage for modeling processes over the industrial modeling languages found in other books on the subject. Moreover, the simplicity and expressiveness of the Petri nets concept make it an ideal language for explaining foundational concepts and constructing exercises. After an overview of business information systems, the book introduces the modeling of processes in terms of classical Petri nets. This is then extended with data, time, and hierarchy to model all aspects of a process. Finally, the book explores analysis of Petri net models to detect design flaws and errors in the design process. The text, accessible to a broad audience of professionals and students, keeps technicalities to a minimum and offers numerous examples to illustrate the concepts covered. Exercises at different levels of difficulty make the book ideal for independent study or classroom use.



Simulation Modelling for Business

Author : Andrew Greasley

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 135 pages

File Size : 27,77 MB

Release : 2017-03-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1351899988

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Book Description

Simulation Modelling has been used for many years in the manufacturing sector but has now become a mainstream tool in business situations. This is partly because of the popularity of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and other process based improvement methods that use simulation to help analyse changes in process design. This text book includes case studies in both manufacturing and service situations to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach. A further reason for the increasing popularity of the technique is the development of business orientated and user-friendly windows-based software. This text provides a guide to the use of ARENA, SIMUL8 and WITNESS simulation software systems which are widely used in industry and available to students. Overall this text provides a practical guide to building and implementing the results from a simulation model. All the steps in a typical simulation study are covered including data collection, input data modelling and experimentation.



Managing Change with Business Process Simulation

Author : David M. Profozich

Publisher : Prentice Hall

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 48,41 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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This is the first practical guide to simulating business processes and predicting the impact of change. The book offers new tools for reducing the risks associated with strategic change. Pragmatic strategies are given for implementing simulation.



Modeling and Simulation in the Systems Engineering Life Cycle

Author : Margaret L. Loper

Publisher : Springer

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 34,12 MB

Release : 2015-04-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 144715634X

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Book Description

This easy to read text provides a broad introduction to the fundamental concepts of modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems engineering, highlighting how M&S is used across the entire systems engineering lifecycle. Features: reviews the full breadth of technologies, methodologies and uses of M&S, rather than just focusing on a specific aspect of the field; presents contributions from specialists in each topic covered; introduces the foundational elements and processes that serve as the groundwork for understanding M&S; explores common methods and methodologies used in M&S; discusses how best to design and execute experiments, covering the use of Monte Carlo techniques, surrogate modeling and distributed simulation; explores the use of M&S throughout the systems development lifecycle, describing a number of methods, techniques, and tools available to support systems engineering processes; provides a selection of case studies illustrating the use of M&S in systems engineering across a variety of domains.



Simulation Techniques

Author : Floyd M. Gardner

Publisher : Wiley-Interscience

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,63 MB

Release : 1996-10-10

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780471519645

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The design of communication systems has grown too complicated for the traditional design tools--mathematical analysis and laboratory breadboards. Enter the computer simulation, a powerful and versatile tool that is becoming essential for anyone who designs signal transmission or storage systems. This volume explains in detail how to use simulation programs as a software breadboard to analyze and evaluate the performance of data communications links. It describes the engineering principles of signal transmission and its simulation, explores programming issues, and provides a comprehensive reference for models of signal processes. The book clearly demonstrates how simulation techniques can be used to: * Create valid models of signal processes * Provide exibility through the use of modules * Simulate various elements of communications systems, from filters and modulators to test instruments * Explore alternative models for a given system * Circumvent the mathematical intractability of modern transmission links * Plan and construct a computer model in a matter of hours or days, versus the weeks or months needed for laboratory breadboards * Make parameter changes in minutes once a link has been modeled * Provide engineers and students with complete training on the elements of simulation A must have for designers, practicing engineers, and graduate students, this volume presents real-world techniques that can be used with the authors' ST?DT program (a companion work also published by Wiley), or independently with other commercially available simulators.



Information Technology for Manufacturing

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 24,37 MB

Release : 1995-02-27

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309176719

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Book Description

This book describes a vision of manufacturing in the twenty-first century that maximizes efficiencies and improvements by exploiting the full power of information and provides a research agenda for information technology and manufacturing that is necessary for success in achieving such a vision. Research on information technology to support product and process design, shop-floor operations, and flexible manufacturing is described. Roles for virtual manufacturing and the information infrastructure are also addressed. A final chapter is devoted to nontechnical research issues.



Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 16,37 MB

Release : 1998-05-08

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309174198

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For every weapons system being developed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must make a critical decision: Should the system go forward to full-scale production? The answer to that question may involve not only tens of billions of dollars but also the nation's security and military capabilities. In the milestone process used by DOD to answer the basic acquisition question, one component near the end of the process is operational testing, to determine if a system meets the requirements for effectiveness and suitability in realistic battlefield settings. Problems discovered at this stage can cause significant production delays and can necessitate costly system redesign. This book examines the milestone process, as well as the DOD's entire approach to testing and evaluating defense systems. It brings to the topic of defense acquisition the application of scientific statistical principles and practices.