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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2008
Marcus Lee Belvin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Joel Caswell, Apex, NC (US);
Angela Richards Jones, Durham, NC (US);
Henri Fouotsop Meli, Cary, NC (US);
Marcus Lee Belvin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Joel Caswell, Apex, NC (US);
Angela Richards Jones, Durham, NC (US);
Henri Fouotsop Meli, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for discovering dependencies in project plans of a distributed system. Project plans are located by a project plan path. A project plan contains dependency information of a task to be performed, a resource necessary to perform the task, and a prerequisite task to perform the task. The method generates a master project plan containing all dependency information in all project plans in the distributed system, which dictates an order of tasks or task-resource maps in all project plans pursuant to the dependency information in project plans. The method utilizes project plan files in diverse formats in generating the master project plan for the distributed system.