Data Mining Method for Automatic Creation of Organizational Charts

• US 20090222298A1
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Atmaja, Susan Handayani Putri
• Application Number:
  US12/040,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20090222298A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating organizational charts. The process receives a selection of an employee from an employee directory to form a reference employee. Thereafter, in response to receiving the selection, the process extracts information relating to a hierarchy of other employees with respect to the reference employee from an employee directory to form extracted information. The process then generates the organizational chart from the extracted information.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for generating an organizational chart, the computer implemented method comprising:

receiving a selection of an employee from an employee directory to form a reference employee;

responsive to receiving the selection, extracting information relating to a hierarchy of other employees with respect to the reference employee from the employee directory to form extracted information; and

generating the organizational chart from the extracted information.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the selection of a set of profile data elements from an employee directory page.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the storing step further comprises:

associating each profile data element in the set of the profile data elements with a hypertext markup language tag.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a set of search criteria, wherein the search criteria comprises at least one of a selection of manager levels and a selection of subordinate levels.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting the set of profile data elements from each page of a set of directory web pages.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the extracted information comprises a set of uniform resource locator patterns.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the extracted information is gathered by data mining process of the employee directory.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 7, wherein the data mining uses at least one of a depth first search algorithm and a breadth first search algorithm.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the hierarchy of the other employees comprises a set of employees that form a business unit of the organization.

10. A computer program product comprising:

computer usable medium including computer usable program code for generating organizational charts, the computer program product comprising;

computer usable program code for receiving a selection of an employee from an employee directory to form a reference employee;

computer usable program code for extracting information relating to a hierarchy of other employees with respect to the reference employee from the employee directory to form extracted information in response to receiving the selection; and

computer usable program code for generating the organizational chart from the extracted information.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer usable program code for storing the selection of a set of profile data elements from an employee directory page.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for the storing step further comprises:

computer usable program code for associating each profile data element of the set of the profile data elements with a hypertext markup language tag.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving a set of search criteria, wherein the search criteria comprises at least one of a selection of manager levels and a selection of subordinate levels.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer usable program code for extracting the set of profile data elements from each page of a set of directory web pages.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the extracted information comprises a set of uniform resource locator patterns.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the extracted information is gathered by data mining of the employee directory.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the data mining uses at least one of a depth first search algorithm and a breadth first search algorithm.

18. An apparatus for generating organizational charts, the apparatus comprising:

a bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes computer usable program code; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable program code to receive a selection of an employee from an employee directory to form a reference employee;

extract information relating to a hierarchy of other employees with respect to the reference employee from the employee directory to form extracted information in response to receiving the selection, wherein the extracted information comprises a set of uniform resource locator patterns; and

generate the organizational chart from the extracted information.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable program code to store the selection of the set of profile data elements from an employee directory page, wherein storing a selection further comprises associating each profile data element in a set of the profile data elements with a hypertext markup language tag.

20. An apparatus comprising:

an employee directory comprising a set of employee directory web pages, wherein the employee directory web pages store a set of profile data elements relating to employees of an organization; and

an extraction tool, wherein the extraction tool receives a selection of an employee from the employee directory to form a reference employee;

extracts information relating to a hierarchy of other employees with respect to the reference employee from the employee directory to form extracted information in response to receiving the selection; and

generates the organizational chart from the extracted information.