International Business Machines Corporation

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Parametric Technology Corporation

Servigistics, Inc.

Click Acqusitions, Inc.

Dipayan James Gangopadhyay

Subrata Mitra

Stephen Andrew Brodsky

Sandeep Nayak

Simeon Gordon

Reynaldo Gil

Jay Zhou

Gary Charles Doney

Michael Morris Golding

Timothy James Grose

Norman Jerome Pass

Rebecca Mei-Har Lau

Rajendra Bhagwatisingh Panwar

Sajib Dasgupta

Manish Satyapal Gupta

Manish Sethi

Ashok Anand

Alexander Gennadievich Glebov

Prashant Gupta

Srinivasan Suresh

Mukesh Dalal

Haleh Mahbod

Anant Vasant Prabhudesai

William Wei Man Wong

Techniques for co-relating at least one of a functional design and at least one implementation artifact of a solution with at least one infrastructure component of a target deployment environment for the solution are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of a functional design and at least one implementation artifact of a solution, obtaining at least one infrastructure component of a target deployment environment for the solution, and co-relating at least one of a functional design and at least one implementation artifact of a solution with at least one infrastructure component of a target deployment environment for the solution, wherein co-relating comprises discovering at least one system level dependency among the at least one of a functional design and at least one implementation artifact and the at least one infrastructure component.

Determining system level dependencies

Techniques are disclosed for bridging terminology differences between at least two subject areas. By way of example, a computer-implemented method includes executing the following steps on a computer. A first affinity measure is computed between a first term in a first corpus, corresponding to a first subject area, and a bridge term. A second affinity measure is computed between a second term in a second corpus, corresponding to a second subject area, and the bridge term. A third affinity measure is computed between the first term and the second term based on the first affinity measure and the second affinity measure. The bridge term is a term that appears in both the first corpus and the second corpus.

Information extraction across multiple expertise-specific subject areas

A system and a method for managing a supply chain are provided. A request for a transaction involving an enterprise and at least one partner in a supply chain is received from an end-user or the partner. Real-time data relevant to the transaction is accessed from an existing partner system. A context for the transaction is generated using the real-time data. The request is processed in the context for the transaction.

Supply chain management

A system and a method for reporting in a supply chain involving an enterprise and at least one partner are provided. A request from a network system for access to real-time data stored in an existing partner system is received at a partner coordinator component. The real-time data relates to a transaction in which the partner is involved. The partner coordinator component is integrated with the existing partner system, and the network system maintains a context for the transaction. The data is converted at the partner coordinator component into a format usable by the network system. The converted real-time data is provided to the network system, thereby enabling the network system to generate real-time reports of the transaction for the enterprise.

Reporting in a supply chain

Composite applications combine services from plurality of existing applications and information sources. Via user interface of such a composite application, an end-user wants to access different combinations of existing services in different usage contexts. This invention describes a method and apparatus for dynamically combining existing services without having to program case-by-case for each usage context. In this method, one constructs and stores a graph of object types and relationships among parameters of existing services and the objects of a composite application. By traversing paths in the stored graph, the apparatus (1) dynamically constructs menus of services relevant to any usage context, (2) automatically computes necessary inputs to a service selected from a menu and executes the service, and (3) automatically propagates changes and invokes appropriate services whenever objects are updated. The net result is the avoidance of case-by-case programming done in the prior art to construct composite applications.

In-context access to relevant services from multiple applications and information systems by object schema traversal

A process modeling tool for graphically representing a process which includes transactions and events, and for generating computer code representing the process. A graphical tool creates a graphical representation of the transactions and events with graphical symbols, where one or more of such transactions and events may be of an asynchronous nature. A code generator generates computer code in response to information contained in the graphical representation. The computer code is executable on a computer system to cause the computer system to perform one or more operations which emulate the process shown in the graphical representation.

Execution of extended activity diagrams by code generation

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for modeling an object-oriented system. Within the object model, a reference attribute is specified for a class and a first object is instantiated from the class. Thereafter, a reference-based association can be added to the first object using the reference attribute, wherein the reference-based association identifies a relationship between the first object and a second object.

Reference-based associations using reference attributes in an object modeling system

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture which provides for synchronizing links and group definitions in an object-oriented system. The method comprises the steps of creating a first class and a second class within a memory of a computer, creating a link between the first class and the second class within the memory of the computer, setting a multiplicity value within the memory of the computer to define a first group within the first class and a second group within the second class, creating an instance of the first class in the memory of the computer where the instance is within the first group, changing the group definition in the memory of the computer to include the instance and link the first group to the second group via the created link, and changing the created link in the memory of the computer to reflect the changes in the defined first group.

Method for synchronization between links and group definitions within an object-oriented system

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for object modeling. An object model is created in a computer using an executable visual specification language to model behaviors of one or more objects within the object model. A sequence of actions can then be expressed within the executable visual specification language for the behaviors of the objects within the object model.

Modeling behaviors of objects associated with finite state machines and expressing a sequence without introducing an intermediate state with the arc language

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for laying out an arc-dominated labelled graph using a computer. The display area is divided into a two dimensional grid of rows and columns. Each node of the labelled graph is assigned to a column, and each arc of the labelled graph is assigned to a row. When laying out arcs, four conditions are observed. First, two arcs connected to the same node are assigned different rows. Second, two arcs assigned to the same row do not have an overlap in the columns. Third, an arc with a distinct source node and a destination node is represented as a line from the source node to the destination node. Fourth, an arc describing a self-loop is represented as one or more lines in the row. The invention produces graphs which have no overlapping arc labels and is scalable for large graphs by expanding the number of rows and columns.

Layout method for arc-dominated labelled graphs

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for modeling object-oriented systems includes an object modeling tool that defines methods and event transitions in an object-oriented system and generates an executable program that exhibits the behavior of the object-oriented system and interfaces with the object-oriented system. The object modeling tool further translates the event transitions to an execution language, wraps methods written in the target language, wraps event transitions corresponding to an event, and gathers one or more wrapped events and methods into an executable program.

Execution engine in an object modeling tool

Processing techniques for enhancing execution of programs written in a logic-oriented programming language such as PROLOG are disclosed. The techniques are particularly useful for programs having class predicates and subclass predicates which are definitive of a class/subclass hierarchy, such as the case with PROLOG's application in object-oriented programming systems, expert systems, object-oriented databases, object-oriented deductive databases, knowledge representations, etc. The techniques ensure that searching within the type hierarchy takes precedence over searching of instances of types. Important to accomplishing this function is the pre-assigning of ranks to predicates and clauses within the program to be processed. Query processing on the program is then based upon the pre-assigned predicate and clause rankings. In particular, novel rules are substituted for conventional predicate and clause selection rules of PROLOG interpreters such that predicates and clauses are preferably processed in order of ranking. In addition, certain query processing simplification steps are introduced. The net effect is a technique which eliminates redundant and unnecessary searching at the instance level by taking advantage of information available in the type lattice.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Dipayan James Gangopadhyay