Abstract: Improving management systems is getting more and more important and topical, as the organizational structure of modern society consists of many features, peculiarities, relations, and is continuously getting more intricate. Although the society has been complex for a long time, it is only now that we are starting to comprehend its real complexity. It has become obvious that changing a characteristic can easily cause or require change to other parts of the system. Attempting to achieve an enterprise’s highest efficiency, each modern executive should use computer modeling from time to time, as it is an efficient tool for management system research that weighs qualitatively and quantitatively characteristics of system functioning. A prerequisite of modern management is to know the principles and capabilities of modeling, be able to create research and use such models. This report considers the role of business modeling for modern management tasks. Generalizing theory development in the area along with international practices and domestic experience, the author chooses the main directions of modeling for modern management and those fields of management where applying computer modeling is more efficient.. This paper weighs perspectives of modeling used to solve business problems; considers modern modeling approaches used to describe architecture, develop operational models and carry out reengineering; briefs on existing techniques and instrumental tools used in modern business modeling.

Keywords: business process, business modeling, business process modeling techniques, simulation modeling, structure-function approach, discontinuous event-driven approach, agent modeling, modeling tools.

ACM Classification Keywords: I.6.5 Model development – Modeling methodology

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COMPUTER MODELING FOR MODERN BUSINESS

Elena Serova

http://foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-20/ibs-20-p18.pdf