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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Marcos Nogueira Novaes, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Marcos Nogueira Novaes, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for representing state transitions within a state machine includes representing a set of allowed transitions between states as a transition pair wherein a first value of the transition pair indicates a set of nodes from which to transition and a second value of the pair indicates a set of nodes to which to transition. The nodes represent states within a state machine. The method further includes defining a role of an entity within the state machine by assigning a number of transition pairs to the entity, the value pairs defining how the entity can transition through the state machine.