Synchroflow Workflow Dynamic Simulation

Business process, a series of related activities transferring within enterprise organizations, always reflects the operating conditions of enterprises, Workflow technologies enable the business managers concerned more about the business process, improving the competitiveness of the enterprise. However, few workflow products support the simulation of workflow model. The workflow system SynchroFLOW is a product developed by Xi'an Synchrotime Software Company based on extended Xinpai driven workflow model. Based on the product, the paper presents a group of dynamic simulation rules which map the uncertain running activities into linear running ones.It contains the following aspects:1 Researching on the situation of workflow and workflow simulation technology as well as summarizing the broad application prospects of workflow technology and demand of workflow simulation technology.2 Introducing the characteristics of workflow model SynchroFLOW and focusing on some specific concepts, such as synchronous zone, asynchronous zone and running rules.3 Because of activities resources competition during the process of simulation and JOIN merge structures and SPLIT branch structures within the model, a group of running rules for dynamic simulation was proposed. It resolves the competition and corruption within the activities of the parallel branch structure and ensures the correctness of the resource time indicators such as leisure time and occupation time by mapping the dynamic running sequence to linear running sequence according to the parallel activity sequence sets and the determined rules.4 Designing and implementing SynchroFLOW dynamic simulation model based on Browser/Server architecture according to the proposed dynamic simulation rules.