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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
John K. Baker, Taylorsville, UT (US);
Moises I. Galvan, Austin, TX (US);
Yunwu Huang, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Matthew A. Markley, Hays, KS (US);
Amitkumar M. Paradkar, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Venkata Vinay Kumar Parisa, Charlotte, NC (US);
Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Valhalla, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for finding a migration target include building a constrained, layered graph from a catalog of possible configuration combinations and a distance function for each layer in the graph; and determining an available path through the graph, said path having a minimum overall distance from a source instance, by performing an optimized search that selectively evaluates available paths through the graph based on cumulative distances of paths through the graph from the source instance.