Creating a modified ontological model of a business machine

• US 20070179826A1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Joshi, Neeraj, Cutlip, Robert, Jog, Mandar
• Application Number:
  US11/345,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20070179826A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management

Abstract

Services of a business process are selected for execution. Ontological data is read from a data source corresponding to sub-process sets of the business process. Each sub-process set comprises at least one service. A first ontological model is generated from the read ontological data. Performance characteristics are read for at least one service. Real time or near real time knowledge information is read regarding resources of a system for executing the business process. A modified ontological model is generated from the read performance characteristics and the real time or near real time system resource knowledge information.

Claims

1. A method of creating a modified ontological model of a business process comprising:

reading ontological data from a data source corresponding to sub-process sets of the business process, each sub-process set comprising at least one service;

generating a first ontological model from the read ontological data;

reading performance characteristics for at least one service;

reading real time or near real time knowledge information regarding resources of a system for executing the business process; and

generating a modified ontological model from the read performance characteristics and the real time or near real time system resource knowledge information.

2. A method as set forth in claim 1, wherein reading performance characteristics for at least one service comprises reading predefined performance information for at least one service.

3. A method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said reading real time or near real time system resource knowledge information comprises reading at least one of a topology library, a workload patterns library, a normalized hardware library and a services library.

4. A method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising updating said topology library, said workload patterns library, and said normalized hardware library on a near real time basis and the services library on a real time basis.

5. A method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the ontological data comprises one or more of an input, an output, a precondition, and post-condition for each sub-process set and said first ontological model is implemented as a directed graph having directed links interconnecting related nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a sub-process set.

6. A method as set forth in claim 5, wherein said generating a modified ontological model comprises selecting for each node the most satisfactory service from the corresponding sub-process set and assigning a weighted value to each directed link to facilitate navigation of the modified ontological model.

7. A system for creating a modified ontological model of a business process comprising:

a module to read ontological data from a data source corresponding to sub-process sets of the business process, each sub-process set comprising at least one service;

a module to generate a first ontological model from the read ontological data;

a module to read performance characteristics for at least one service;

a module to read real time or near real time knowledge information regarding resources of a system for executing the business process; and

a module to generate a modified ontological model from the read performance characteristics and the real time or near real time system resource knowledge information.

8. A system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said module to read performance characteristics for at least one service reads predefined performance information for one or more services.

9. A system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said module to read real time or near real time system resource knowledge information reads at least one of a topology library, a workload patterns library, a normalized hardware library and a services library.

10. A system as set forth in claim 9, further comprising a module to update said topology library, said workload patterns library, and said normalized hardware library on a near real time basis and the services library on a real time basis.

11. A system as set forth in claim 7, wherein the ontological data comprises one or more of an input, an output, a precondition, and post-condition for each sub-process set and said module to generate a first ontological model generates a directed graph having directed links interconnecting related nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a sub-process set.

12. A system as set forth in claim 11, wherein said module to generate a modified ontological model selects for each node the most satisfactory service from the corresponding sub-process set and assigns a weighted value to each directed link to facilitate navigation of the modified ontological model.

13. A computer program product for creating a modified ontological model of a business process, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied herewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code configured to read ontological data from a data source corresponding to sub-process sets of the business process, each sub-process set comprising at least one service;

computer usable program code configured to generate a first ontological model from the read ontological data;

computer usable program code configured to read predefined performance information for at least one service;

computer usable program code configured to read real time or near real time knowledge information regarding resources of a system for executing the business pro computer usable program code configured to generate a modified ontological model from the read predefined performance information and the real time or near real time system resource knowledge information.

14. A computer program product as set forth in claim 13, wherein said computer usable program code to read predefined performance information for at least one service reads predefined performance information for at least one service.

15. A computer program product as set forth in claim 13, wherein said computer usable program code to read system resource knowledge information reads at least one of a topology library, a workload patterns library, a normalized hardware library and a services library.

16. A computer program product as set forth in claim 15, further comprising computer readable code to update said topology library, said workload patterns library, and said normalized hardware library on a near real time basis and the services library on a real time basis.

17. A computer program product as set forth in claim 13, wherein the ontological data comprises one or more of an input, an output, a precondition, and post-condition for each sub-process set and said computer usable program code to generate a first ontological model generates a directed graph having directed links interconnecting related nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a sub-process set.

18. A computer program product as set forth in claim 17, wherein said computer readable code to generate a modified ontological model selects for each node the most satisfactory service from the corresponding sub-process set and assigns a weighted value to each directed link to facilitate navigation of the modified ontological model.