The analysis approach is portrayed in Fig. 11.32. Starting with the arrival
frequencies on the business process level, the workload (throughput) for all
model elements in the layers below is calculated (top-down analysis). Together
with the given service time of the infrastructure services, the utilisation of the
resources, and the processing and response times of the processes, functions, and
services are calculated (bottom-up analysis). In Sect. 8.2 there is a detailed description
of the analysis algorithms.