MODELING AND VISUALIZING LEVEL-BASED HIERARCHIES

• US 20150193531A1
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Mandelstein, Dan J., Pandit, Sushain, Woolf, Olena, Palaniappan, Subramanian, Xu, Fenglian
• Application Number:
  US14/494,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology

Abstract

Flexibly modeling and visualizing a level-based hierarchy. A first level set and a second level set are identified from a first data set and a second data set in a first domain and a second domain, respectively. A first relationship type to be used between the first level set and the second level set is received. A first hierarchy is formalized, including at least the first level set and the second level set joined in a hierarchical relationship according to the first relationship type.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a first set of machine readable data including a first level set from a first domain;

identifying a second set of machine readable data including a second level set from a second domain;

receiving a first relationship type to be used between the first level set and the second level set; and

formalizing a first hierarchy, including at least the first level set and the second level set joined in a hierarchical relationship according to the first relationship type.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the receipt of the first relationship type includes:

receiving user input identifying the first relationship type.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

further formalizing the first hierarchy by designating a first relationship definition specifying substance of a relationship according to the first relationship type.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

rendering a visual image of the first hierarchy wherein the first relationship definition is implicit in the visual image.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the first level set comes from a first data storage system; and

the second level set comes from a second data storage system with the second data storage system being different from the first data storage system.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

identifying a third set of machine readable data including a third level set;

receiving a second relationship type to be used between the second level set and the third level set;

designating a second relationship definition specifying substance of a relationship according to the second relationship type; and

further formalizing the first hierarchy, including the third level set, according to the second relationship type and the second relationship definition;

wherein;

the first relationship definition has a type and/or cardinality that is different from the second relationship definition.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

further formalizing the first hierarchy by identifying a hierarchy relationship between the first level set and the first set of machine readable data.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

suggesting the second level set given the first level set, based on information found in enterprise dictionaries, glossaries, and/or ontologies.