International Business Machines Corporation

Sheng Ye

Jing Li

Jian Wang

Wei Sun

Jun Zhu

Ying Liu

Zhong Tian

Ying Nan Zuo

Xin Zhang

Guan Zhang

Hai Qi Liang

Hai Oi Liang

The invention provides method and apparatus for locating data in a data file and for transforming the data. The method comprises the steps: determining the data unit to be located in the data file; determining a type for the data unit, the type including 'Text', 'SingleLine', &#x201c;MultiLine&#x201d;, &#x201c;Block&#x201d; and &#x201c;Iterator&#x201d;; when the type of the data unit is not &#x201c;Text&#x201d;, selecting a different data unit as the location reference for the data unit; generating the location description for the data unit, based on the type of the data unit and the position relationship between the data unit and the different data unit, the description including the type of the data unit, one or more location elements for locating the data unit and including &#x201c;Top&#x201d;, &#x201c;Bottom&#x201d;, &#x201c;Left&#x201d; and &#x201c;Right&#x201d;, each of the location elements including a combination of attributes so as to determine the position of the location element. The invention may locate the data position by two dimensional area.

Method and apparatus for locating and transforming data

Provides methods for transforming a flowchart to an equivalent tree diagram, methods for transforming an equivalent tree diagram to a flowchart, methods for verifying reorganization of a flowchart, methods for editing a flowchart, methods for creating a flowchart and a flowchart editor. A flowchart includes one or more logic structures and one or more processing activities in said one or more logic structures. The method for transforming a flowchart to an equivalent tree diagram comprises: traversing said flowchart; transforming said one or more logic structures in said flowchart to one or more branching nodes in said tree diagram; and transforming one or more processing activities in said logic structures of said flowchart to one or more leaf nodes below corresponding branching nodes in said tree diagram. Further, edition of a flowchart and verification of reorganization of a flowchart are performed by utilizing an equivalent tree diagram.

Editing, creating, and verifying reorganization of flowchart, and transforming between flowchart and tree diagram

Provides processing logic modeling and executing methods, systems and apparatus. These facilitate collaboration between business analyst and IT staff for process modeling and maintenance of the consistency between business level design and IT implementation design. A task is decomposed into sub-tasks and is represented by a tree. Annotations to the nodes of the tree are used to represent the relations between the sub-tasks. A processing logic is thus completed. When executing the processing logic, traversing the tree follows according to the annotations.

Processing logic modeling and execution

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