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of PPIs into BD simulations, we have designed and
implemented additional SKMs. These SKMs (ontolo-
gies) provide knowledge about relations and depen-
dencies of KPIs and PPIs, and can be used as busi-
ness dictionaries to look up relationships of KPIs and
PPIs either manually or automatically. An automated
consumption of SKMs can further be used to auto-
mate the BD simulation process for continuous KPI
predictions in real-time. So far this approach is uni-
directional, because we have only incorporated PPIs
as main influencing factor towards KPIs. For future
work, it would be interesting to analyse the KPI influ-
ence towards PPIs as well. We believe, that the pre-
diction of PPIs could also be beneficially impacted
by incorporating the simulated KPIs. The next step
would be, to evaluate the framework in the context of
an industrial use-case, to demonstrate improved KPI
predictions.
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