Patent ID: 8027956
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for modeling a transformation of a system, comprising: receiving, by an apparatus having a transformation engine associated with a data repository and one or more user interfaces, a plurality of desired states for a transformation of a system; developing, by the transformation engine, a plurality of state data structures, wherein each state data structure represents the system at a time corresponding to a desired state based on the transformation, wherein each state data structure comprises a first set of data structures, wherein each of the first set of data structures associated with a desired state represents an entity or relationship of the system at the corresponding time; storing the plurality of state data structures in the data repository; forming a transformation scenario to represent the transformation of the system, wherein the transformation scenario is a data structure comprising the plurality of state data structures, by: storing the transformation scenario in the data repository, wherein the plurality of state data structures includes a data structure representing the system in a desired final configuration, wherein the transformation of the system is based on the scenario.