SimuBridge: Discovery and Management of Process Simulation Scenarios

Business process simulation enables testing and improving redesigned versions of business processes in a secure environment. By utilizing process simulators, the effects (e.g., the resource utilization) of process changes can be studied prior to real-world implementation. With the growing availability of process execution data, techniques have emerged to extract process simulation models from event logs. This enables a faster, more evidence-driven approach instead of manually creating simulation models. However, event logs may contain noise and lack specific information, such as resource availability, for a comprehensive simulation model. This demo presents a parameterization tool for simulation models that allows users to improve discovered models by human input or external data and develop different redesign scenarios - a user-friendly interface between existing discovery techniques and process simulators.