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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Marcello Vitaletti, Rome, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, and associated system and computer program product, for configuring a network of interconnected sources and users of a commodity, the method comprises: providing a partition of the users into a plurality of disjoints parts; initializing a grouping of the sources and parts into a plurality of disjoint groups each one comprising one or more interconnected sources and parts; repeating selecting an enlarging group among the groups being over-supplied, selecting an adding part among the parts adjacent to the enlarging group being under-supplied, merging the adding part and the possible group thereof into the enlarging group, and updating the supply balance of the merged enlarging group and the residual demand of the parts thereof according to the merging until all the parts belong to a single group; and determining an arrangement of intercepting/regulating elements according to the conditions of the inter-part connections.