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US 7,461,125 B2Granted
Enterprise system having a smart distance among artifacts, and apparatus and method for providing the smart distance among the artifacts
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJen-Yao Chung, David Cohn, Fenno F. Heath, III, Jun-Jang Jeng, Santhosh Kumaran, Hui Lei, Prabir Nandi
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Abstract
An enterprise system includes a plurality of artifacts (e.g., persons, objects, databases, autonomous elements, intelligent agents, information systems, etc), and a smart distance (e.g., a distance which may optimize the performance of the enterprise system) between the plurality of artifacts.
Claims1
An enterprise system, comprising:
- a plurality of artifacts;
- a smart distance between said plurality of artifacts;
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- a processing device for determining said smart distance between said plurality of artifacts according to a predetermined algorithm, said algorithm comprising:
- representing a distance from artifact ai to artifact aj as a vector dij=<|c1|, . . . ,|cIij|>;
- representing a distance configuration at time τ by a matrix
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- minimizing ∥D(τ)−Dnatural(Ω(τ))∥,
- wherein an interaction between said artifacts comprises channels c1, . . . ,cIij, |cIij| comprises a degree of interaction for a channel cIij, Ω(τ) comprises a given contextual/environmental condition at time τ, and Dnatural(Ω(τ)) comprises a natural distance configuration.
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