PMSD: Data-Driven Simulation Using System Dynamics and Process Mining

TL;DR

PMSD is a web-based tool that transforms process mining data into system dynamics models for forward-looking simulation, enabling validation and better interpretation of organizational processes.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach integrating process mining with system dynamics for simulation, supporting forward-looking analysis beyond traditional backward-looking techniques.

Findings

Supports transformation of event data into simulation models

Enables validation and visualization of process dynamics

Facilitates organizational process analysis

Abstract

Process mining extends far beyond process discovery and conformance checking, and also provides techniques for bottleneck analysis and organizational mining. However, these techniques are mostly backward-looking. PMSD is a web application tool that supports forward-looking simulation techniques. It transforms the event data and process mining results into a simulation model which can be executed and validated. PMSD includes log transformation, time window selection, relation detection, interactive model generation, simulating and validating the models in the form of system dynamics, i.e., a technique for an aggregated simulation. The results of the modules are visualized in the tool for a better interpretation