Patent ID: 7580913
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computerized method for analyzing an impact of change in an organizational entity, said method comprising: specifying a graph H for the organizational entity, said graph H comprising a plurality P of nets, at least two nets of P having unique semantics, each net of P comprising a plurality of nodes, each node in each net of P being directly connected by an edge to at least one other node in said each net in P, at least one node of each net of P directly connected by an edge to at least one node of at least one other net of P, each edge in H directly connecting a first node and a second node such that said each edge comprises (1) a first edge weight denoting a change in the second node resulting from a change in the first node and (2) a second edge weight denoting a change in the first node resulting from a change in the second node; for a given set Z of nodes A in H and for each node B characterized by a set S of at least one path of contiguous edges connecting nodes of H from node A to node B for each node A of Z, determining a measure M(Z,B) of a change in node B resulting from a change in each node A of Z, said M(Z,B) being a function of the edge weights comprised by each contiguous edge in each path of S; assigning a graphical representation G(B) to said each node B, said G(B) being a function of M(Z,B); and displaying the graph H such that said each node B is displayed in accordance with the graphical representation G(B) assigned to said each node B.