Title: Stochastic modelling of taxpayer assistance centre for performability evaluation

Authors: Rosiberto Dos Santos Gonçalves; Eduardo Antônio Guimarães Tavares; Gabriel Alves De Albuquerque Junior; Bruno Silva

Addresses: Centro de Informática (CIn), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Avenida Jornalista Aníbal Fernandes, s/n, 50.740-560 – Recife, Brazil ' Centro de Informática (CIn), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Avenida Jornalista Aníbal Fernandes, s/n, 50.740-560 – Recife, Brazil ' Departamento de Estatística e Informática (DEINFO), Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, 52171-900 – Recife, Brazil ' Centro de Informática (CIn), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Avenida Jornalista Aníbal Fernandes, s/n, 50.740-560 – Recife, Brazil

Abstract: Over the years, there has been an increasing pressure to improve public service, most notably, the ones that directly interact with taxpayers. However, in emerging countries, public sector is ruled by a bureaucratic structure, which complicates coordination and execution of services. Stochastic modelling provides a prominent mechanism for assessing government processes, as different configurations can be evaluated in order to enable cost reduction as well as the maximisation of service performance. This work presents an approach based on stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) for performability evaluation of government process related to taxpayer assistance centre (TAC). A real-world case study demonstrates the practical suitability of the proposed approach.

Keywords: stochastic Petri nets; SPNs; government services; public services; performability evaluation; public organisations; taxpayer assistance centres; TAC; stochastic modelling; emerging economies; government processes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2017.082764

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2017 Vol.8 No.1, pp.53 - 63

Accepted: 13 Oct 2016
Published online: 10 Mar 2017 *

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