On Goal-Oriented Business Process Simulation

Nowadays organizations are becoming even more focused on their business processes (BP) and in addition increasing interest in goal-oriented BP. Traditional BP simulation approaches consider BP as a pre-detined sequence of activities, limiting possibilities to adapt a process model to changes occurring in the business environment. To he able to use dynamic BP in simulation we need an approach, which enables us to use goal-oriented BP in simulation. In this paper, we present concept of a goal, goal-oriented approach and goal-oriented BP modeling. In addition, we presented the general way to describe simulation state and by doing that describe the simulation goal. Moreover, we presented general ideas how simulation engine should select most beneficial activities during simulation runtime.