Estimating required time for process granularization
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsFLORIAN PINEL, Krishna C. Ratakonda, Lav R. Varshney
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Abstract
Estimating a time required to complete an atomic task, where the atomic task is one of a plurality of atomic tasks that collectively forms a molecular task, includes obtaining, for each of a plurality of molecular tasks including the molecular task, data including: a known time required to complete each of the plurality of molecular tasks and a known list of constituent atomic tasks forming each of the plurality of molecular tasks, and estimating the time required to complete the atomic task based on the data.
Claims20
A system for estimating a time required to complete an atomic task, wherein the atomic task is one of a plurality of atomic tasks that collectively forms a molecular task, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium that stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining, for each of a plurality of molecular tasks including the molecular task, data including:
- a known time required to complete the each of the plurality of molecular tasks and a known list of constituent atomic tasks forming the each of the plurality of molecular tasks;
- and
- estimating the time required to complete the atomic task based on the data.
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