Patent ID: 8260642

Claim:
A computer implemented method of scoring a plurality of component links in a socio technical system having a plurality of components representing people and objects, the plurality of component links representing a plurality of relationships between the plurality of components, comprising: determining, by a processor, a measure of consistency relative to a network of people components and a network of object components in a socio technical system, the network of people components including components representing people and one or more links between the components representing people, and the network of object components including components representing objects worked on by at least some of the components representing people and one or more links between the components representing objects; and determining a measure of contribution of one or more links between said components, contributing to the measure of consistency, based on presence or absence of said one or more links in the social technical system, the measure of consistency including a measure of collaboration consistency or a measure of coordination consistency or combinations thereof, the collaboration consistency representing an expectation that whenever a pair of people represented in the network of people components both have a relationship with an artifact represented in the network of object components, then there is a path between the pair of people, and the coordination consistency representing an expectation that if artifact r has a dependency on artifact q, and if person j is connected to artifact r , then person j is connected to artifact q, wherein the artifact r and artifact q are components in the network of object components and person j is a component in the network of people components, the measure of collaboration consistency computed as ρ s , k := Λ s ⁡ ( G S , G P , J , k ) Γ s ⁡ ( G S , G P , J , k ) . wherein Γ s (G S , G P , J, k) represents the number of times that there exist s 0 εS and p i , p j εP, with i≠j, such that (p i , s 0 ), (p j , s 0 )εJ and there is no geodesic from p i to p j of length less than or equal to k−1for k>=2, Λ s (G S , G P , J, k) denote the number of times that there exist s 0 εS and p i , p j εP, with i ≠j, such that (p i , s 0 ), (p j , s 0 )εJ and there is a geodesic from p i , to p j of length less than or equal to k for k>=2, and the measure of coordination consistency computed as ρ d , k := Λ d ⁡ ( G S , G P , J , k ) Γ d ⁡ ( G S , G P , J , k ) wherein let Λ d (G S , G P , J, k) denote the number of times that there exist s q , s r εS, q≠r, and p i , p j εP, i≠j, such that (s q , s r )εA S and (p i , s q ), (p j , s r ) εJ and there is a geodesic from p i , to p j of length k for k>=2, wherein P represents a set of people, indexed p 1 , p 2 , . . . , p n , S represents a set of work product artifacts, indexed s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s m , As represents dependencies between work products.