Layered Queuing Networks for Simulating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Stephan Gradl, André Böegelsack, Holger Wittges, Helmut Krcmar

2009

Abstract

As Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) form the backbone of today’s business processes the stability and performance of those systems is vital to the whole company. In many cases less is known what happens to the performance of an ERP system when a patch is applied or changes are made to the ERP system. This paper presents an approach how to simulate Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) before changes are made to the system. The approach involves the development of so called Layered Queuing Networks (LQN). To construct such a LQN the paper utilizes a trace in the ERP system to gather data about the internal ERP system’s architecture. These data is used to construct a section of the internal architecture of the ERP system. The ERP system’s architecture is transformed into a LQN and the LQN is simulated.

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in Harvard Style

Gradl S., Böegelsack A., Wittges H. and Krcmar H. (2009). Layered Queuing Networks for Simulating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-90-6, pages 85-92. DOI: 10.5220/0002194200850092


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis09,
author={Stephan Gradl and André Böegelsack and Holger Wittges and Helmut Krcmar},
title={Layered Queuing Networks for Simulating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={85-92},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002194200850092},
isbn={978-989-8111-90-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Layered Queuing Networks for Simulating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
SN - 978-989-8111-90-6
AU - Gradl S.
AU - Böegelsack A.
AU - Wittges H.
AU - Krcmar H.
PY - 2009
SP - 85
EP - 92
DO - 10.5220/0002194200850092