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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Mark Alan Brodie, Braircliff, NY (US);
Ashwin Lall, Rochester, NY (US);
Anca Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Mark Alan Brodie, Braircliff, NY (US);
Ashwin Lall, Rochester, NY (US);
Anca Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method of determining a target configuration of an infrastructure aligned with a template includes a step of representing the current configuration of the infrastructure as a graph having a plurality of vertices representing elements of the infrastructure and at least one edge representing at least one dependency between the elements, wherein a given element within a set of possible elements for the infrastructure has a set of possible equivalent elements for the given element. The exemplary method also includes a step of finding at least one cut vertex in the graph representing the current configuration of the infrastructure, wherein removal of the cut vertex will split the graph into two sub-graphs as close in size as possible.