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Compensating for reduced availability of a disrupted project resource

  • US 9,922,305 B2
  • Filed: 05/23/2016
  • Issued: 03/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for compensating for reduced availability of a disrupted project resource,where a first resource comprises a set of instances of the first resource that are each associated with a corresponding available amount of the first resource that is made available by that instance,where a total available capacity of the first resource is a sum of available amounts of the first resource that are made available by all instances of the set of instances,where the project requires a first instance of the set of instances, a second instance of the set of instances, and a third instance of the set of instances,where the first instance identifies a first available amount of the first resource that is available to the project,where the second instance identifies a second available amount of the first resource that is available to the project,where the third instance identifies a third available amount of the first resource that is available to the project, andwhere a disruption of the first;

  • second, or third instance results in a corresponding reduction of the first;

    second, or third available amount,the method comprisinga processor of a computer system identifying an initial value of the total available capacity as a sum of the first available amount, the second available amount, and the third available amount;

    the processor receiving a set of dependency relationships,where a first dependency relationship of the set of dependency relationships identifies that an initial disruption of the first instance causes a second disruption of the second instance, andwhere a second dependency relationship of the set of dependency relationships identifies that the second disruption causes a disruption of the third instance;

    the processor determining that the initial disruption;

    directly results in a reduction of the first available amount by a first-instance reduction amount,indirectly results, as a function of the first dependency relationship, in a reduction of the second available amount by a second-instance reduction amount andindirectly results, as a function of the second dependency relationship, in a reduction of the third available amount by a third-instance reduction amount; and

    the processor, as a result of the determining, decreasing the total available capacity of the first resource by a sum of the first-instance reduction amount, the second-instance reduction amount, and the third-instance reduction amount.

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