Patent ID: 7533008

Claim:
A system to simulate a process of discrete tasks having a plurality of available resources associated therewith, the system comprising: a model database to store a plurality of models, each model including a plurality of task and resource parameters; a model portion in communication with the model database and configured to receive commands from a user, to retrieve one of the plurality of models and corresponding task and resource parameters to response to a user command, to receive input data corresponding to attributes of one or more task and resource parameters from a business database system, and to generate a simulation model based on the selected business database system and the input data; and a model server to perform a simulation of the process by processing the simulation model and to generate an output data file containing output data representative of the simulation; and wherein the model portion performs processing on the input data corresponding to attributes of one or more task and resource parameters from a business database system, the processing including determining relationships within the input data; and wherein the processing includes performing distribution curve fitting on the input data using a goodness of fit technique.