Test Bed Development for Inter-organizational Process Simulation

Abstract

Advanced system architectures or frameworks proposed by researchers are usually verified by implementing their prototype systems, but it is very difficult to integrate them with operating legacy systems to show their applicability. Thus, a test bed approach is widely adopted to provide a system environment that imitates the operations of real legacy systems and their interactions. In this paper, we introduce our experiences to implement a test bed as a system environment on which we have implemented a prototype system to verify our studies for process information sharing. The test bed simulates simultaneously operating workflow systems and their interactions. We also show the result of the prototype system that was implemented on the test bed.