Guidelines of Modelling (GoM) for Business Process Simulation

Due to necessary specifications of manifold co-ordination mechanisms for managing resource inter dependencies and corresponding control data flows, the design of simulation models describing business processes often tend to generate considerably high complexity itself With regard to economic efficiency of process modelling and simulation studies it is essential to cope with this complexity on a systematic basis. The paper will take up this problem, which has so far rarely been regarded. Coming from the Guidelines of Modelling (GoM), a project of the University of Munster, three major mutually dependent topics are focused upon, and are applied in a case study: View-orientated phases of the model construction, the use of model components and the application of modelling conventions.