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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2008
Charu C. Aggarwal, Ossining, NY (US);
Murray Scott Campbell, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Yuan-chi Chang, New York, NY (US);
Matthew Leon Hill, Yonkers, NY (US);
Chung-sheng LI, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Fishkill, NY (US);
Sriram K. Padmanabhan, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Min Wang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Kun-lung Wu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Philip Shilung Yu, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Charu C. Aggarwal, Ossining, NY (US);
Murray Scott Campbell, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Yuan-Chi Chang, New York, NY (US);
Matthew Leon Hill, Yonkers, NY (US);
Chung-Sheng Li, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Milind R. Naphade, Fishkill, NY (US);
Sriram K. Padmanabhan, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Min Wang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Kun-Lung Wu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Philip Shilung Yu, Chappaqua, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Interoperability is enabled between participants in a network by determining values associated with a value metric defined for at least a portion of the network. Information flow is directed between two or more of the participants based at least in part on semantic models corresponding to the participants and on the values associated with the value metric. The semantic models may define interactions between the participants and define at least a portion of information produced or consumed by the participants. The determination of the values and the direction of the information flow may be performed multiple times in order to modify the one or more value metrics. The direction of information flow may allow participants to be deleted from the network, may allow participants to be added to the network, or may allow behavior of the participants to be modified.