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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2003
George M. Hurtis, Rochester, MN (US);
Ivory W. Knipfer, Rochester, MN (US);
Jeffrey G. Komatsu, Kasson, MN (US);
Manivannan Thavasi, Rochester, MN (US);
George M. Hurtis, Rochester, MN (US);
Ivory W. Knipfer, Rochester, MN (US);
Jeffrey G. Komatsu, Kasson, MN (US);
Manivannan Thavasi, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity modeling process. The method comprises creating a commodity hierarchy data structure. The commodity hierarchy data structure includes at least one top level node and at least one leaf node dependent upon the top level node. The method further comprises assigning uniform attributes to nodes in the hierarchy and selectively assigning at least one dimensional attribute to a node for invoking an analysis based upon the dimensional attribute. The dependent nodes inherit dimensional attributes assigned to corresponding upper level nodes. Other embodiments include an apparatus, a system, and storage medium.