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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Francisco Phelan Curbera, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Paul T. Keyser, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Rania Khalaf, Cambridge, MA (US);
Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Francisco Phelan Curbera, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Paul T. Keyser, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Rania Khalaf, Cambridge, MA (US);
Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for modeling a process includes receiving a plurality of graphs representing processes wherein for each graph. A sequence of process steps of the processes are represented as nodes and edges connecting pairs of nodes represent transitions between process steps. A numeric value representative of graph appearance for each of the plurality of received graphs is calculated. Each of the plurality of received graphs is stored within a tree-like data structure according to its corresponding numeric value. Each of the above steps is performed using a computer system.