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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control Année : 2012

Performance Evaluation of Resource-Aware Business Processes Using Stochastic Automata Networks

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In this work, we study the performance evaluation of resource-aware business process models. We define a new framework that allows the generation of analytical models for performance evaluation from business process models annotated with resource management information. This framework is composed of a new notation that allows the specification of resource management constraints and a method to convert a business process specification and its resource constraints into Stochastic Automata Networks (SAN). We show that the analysis of the generated SAN model provides several performance indices, such as average throughput of the system, average waiting time, average queues size, and utilization rate of resources. Using the BP2SAN tool our implementation of the proposed framework and a SAN solver (such as the PEPS tool) we show through a simple use-case how a business specialist with no skills in stochastic modeling can easily obtain performance indices that, in turn, can help to identify bottlenecks on the model, to perform workload characterization, to define the provisioning of resources, and to study other performance related aspects of the business process.
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hal-00787994 , version 1 (13-02-2013)

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  • HAL Id : hal-00787994 , version 1

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Kelly Rosa Braghetto, João Eduardo Ferreira, Jean-Marc Vincent. Performance Evaluation of Resource-Aware Business Processes Using Stochastic Automata Networks. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2012, 8, pp.5295-5380. ⟨hal-00787994⟩
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