@conference {156, title = {A cloud-based service-oriented architecture for business process modeling and simulation}, booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings {\textendash} INCOSE Italia Conference on Systems Engineering}, year = {2017}, publisher = {CEUR-WS}, organization = {CEUR-WS}, abstract = {

The adoption of Modeling \& Simulation (M\&S) approaches is widely recognized as a valuable solution for enacting a timely analysis of business processes (BPs). Despite their relevance, the effective introduction of such approaches in the BP lifecycle is still limited, due to the know-how and skills for building and implementing a simulation model and to the cost and effort for setting up and maintaining the execution platform. In this respect, this paper proposes a cloud-based architecture that exploits the M\&S as a Service (MSaaS) paradigm and containerization technology for the flexible and dynamic composition of M\&S services, so to allow business analysts to carry out an effortless and effective M\&S-based BP analysis. An example case study dealing with an e-commerce scenario is also presented in order to show the actual application of the proposed approach.

}, keywords = {Business analysts, Business Process, Business process model, Cloud-based, Cloud-based architectures, Computer architecture, Dynamic composition, Execution platforms, Information services, Service oriented architecture (SOA), Simulation model, Systems engineering, Technology transfer}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038838268\&partnerID=40\&md5=801305b85d284d68f1f5963ae4bc3f4d}, author = {Bocciarelli, P. and D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio, A. and Paglia, E. and Panetti, T. and Giglio, A.} }