Validating Auction Business Processes using Agent-based Simulations.

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Abstract: Business Process Modeling and particularly modeling business processes as collaborations is one of the challenges of today enterprise software development. The industry of software development becomes more and more expensive making crucial acorrect translation from business idea to implementation to allowfor acomplete understanding and complete exchange of information between development participants. Particularly, large established software infrastructures are critical with respect to the integration of new components. In this paper, wedescribe an automated mapping from Single Item English Auction BPMN model to an Agent-Object Relationship simulation towards validation of this business process. The mapping underlines the capabilities of agent-based simulations to execute business processes as well as anumber of open questions with respect of BPMN collaboration models. 1 Motivation and Related Work The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) has developed astandard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) [OMG08]. The primary goal of BPMN is to provide anotation that is readily understandable by all business users such that businessprocesses can be illustrated using astandard notation understandable also to business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes, continuing towards technical developers responsible for implementing the technology that will perform those processes, and finally going on, towards the business people who will manage and monitor those processes. Acomplete introduction to business processes is givenin[Wes07]. This work tries to narrowthe gap between two different points of view underlined by two different communities: researchers with abackground in formal methods interested in investigating structural properties of processes and the second group consisting of software community interested in providing robust and scalable software systems. However, building complexbusiness processes on already existent enterprise infrastructure it might be an expensive task. Usually, corporations spent millions integrating heterogeneous

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