Continuous Process Model Refinement from Business Vision to Event Simulation and Software Automation : Bridging Gaps between Stakeholder Communities, Practices, Notations, and Tools

Business consultants and software engineers produce and consume process models capturing analysis and design results on different levels of abstraction and at different stages of refinement. Model types commonly found in practice include vision models (current, future), simulation models, and automation models. In this paper, we propose to align and map the terminologies and concepts of these model types to improve stakeholder collaboration. We support this concept mapping with two model transformations to and from discrete event simulation models. We implemented these transformations prototypically (MDSL2JaamSim, JaamSim2MDSL). Our work originates from an industrial case in the FinTech domain. An experimental validation suggests benefits such as effort savings. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering $^{\rightarrow}$ System description languages; Integration frameworks; System modeling languages; Orchestration languages.