International Business Machines Corporation

Ross McKegney

Victor Chan

Darshanand Khusial

Lev Mirlas

Tack Tong

Jennifer L Hawkins

Jeffrey A Shiner

Ramiah K Tin

Mark William Hubbard

Walfrey Ng

Jacob Slonim

Michael Joseph McAllister

Jacob T Vandergoot

Konstantinos Kontogiannis

Stanislav Bliakhman

Jian Zhang

Kelly A Lyons

Qi Zhang

Mark D McKenna

Ying Zou

Igor Ivkovic

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to catalog modeling for e-commerce systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for an adaptive unified retail catalog. In an embodiment of the invention, an e-commerce data processing system can be configured for catalog adaptation. The system can include an adaptive retail catalog, a logical catalog implementation of a logical catalog model coupled to the adaptive retail catalog, and a physical catalog coupled to the adaptive retail catalog through a database mediator. The system further includes a mapping of search requests against the logical catalog implementation to the physical catalog. In this way, changes to the underlying physical catalog model can be accommodated without requiring a companion change in the logical catalog model.

System, method, and computer program product for catalog adaptation

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to database query management and execution and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for processing an adaptive query expression in an on-demand data service. In one embodiment of the invention, an adaptive query handling method can include receiving an initial query in a database driven application, parsing the initial query to identify a query expression key, matching the query expression key to an adaptive query expression, and transforming the adaptive query expression to a final query expression through a replacement of annotations in the adaptive query expression with static expressions conforming to a query language for the final query expression. Thereafter, the final query expression can be applied to a database subsystem for the database driven application.

Adaptive query expression builder for an on-demand data service

An improved solution for resolving interdependencies between heterogeneous artifacts in software systems is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for finding dependencies in a software system is provided, wherein the method includes: obtaining an input resource, wherein the resource includes a plurality of entry points to the software system and at least one strategy; identifying at least one artifact for each of the plurality of entry points; using the at least one strategy for gathering a plurality of related artifacts in the software system, wherein each of the plurality of related artifacts is heterogeneous in at least one of structure, composition, and relationships; determining a dependency between the gathered plurality of related artifacts; and outputting an output resource, wherein the output resource comprises the at least one dependency.

Resolving interdependencies between heterogeneous artifacts in a software system

A method for role-based personalization of a collaborative space can include generating a collaborative space utilizing role information for an interacting user that has been defined by an underlying business process model in a workflow. For example, the step of generating a collaborative space can include parsing the workflow to extract a role model, generating a collaborative space domain model from the role model, selecting a plurality of user interface components based upon the role model, organizing the selected user interface components in the collaborative space, and rendering the collaborative space.

System and method for dynamically configuring user interface components of a collaborative space based on mapping rules and user roles

A service-oriented architecture can include a service provider comprising a plurality of service objects, each service object comprising a self-describing, self-contained, platform independent, modular unit of application logic. The service oriented architecture further includes a service object among the plurality of service objects that is a service implementation having a pre-ordained message processing system. The service implementation can respond to client requests at different levels of granularity and can use a common transfer object message format that separates a business object into its constituent parts. The common set of operations can include at least the Read, Create, Update, Delete, and Execute functions.

Service-oriented architecture component processing model

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for profile mapped model transformation for model driven architecture (MDA) development of service provisioning applications can be provided. The method can include mapping elements of a platform independent domain specific model to a platform specific domain specific model for a target platform with stereotypes in a uniform modeling language (UML) profile defined for the target platform. The method further can include transforming a platform independent domain specific model into a platform specific domain specific model for a target platform by applying the stereotypes of the UML profile defined for the target platform. Finally, the method can include generating shell source code for the transformed platform specific domain specific model.

Incremental model refinement and transformation in generating commerce applications using a model driven architecture

A technique is provided to generally provide user support across multiple accounts by allowing a single person or user to represent multiple organizations. An embodiment may typically provide support for a user to act on behalf of an account in the form of a virtual persona and also to provide the ability to manage the assignment of access rights allowing only prescribed privileged users to act on behalf of an account. This may then be accomplished through registration of a single identity for the user or person on the system, while allowing that person to then select the desired organization to represent for a particular session (which will be stored in the user's session).

Managing a virtual persona through selective association

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Ross McKegney