Charles A Kapopoulos

US Patent:

20120116987, May 10, 2012

Filed:

Jul 16, 2010

Appl. No.:

13/319764

Inventors:

Darby E. Hering - Charlestown MA, US
Charles Kapopoulos - Nashua NH, US
Mark Weston - Arlington MA, US
Jared Freeman - Bethesda MD, US

Assignee:

APTIMA, INC. - Woburn MA

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705348

Abstract:

A method for modeling a process comprising receiving a first formatted data input representing a process element and a second formatted data input representing a process element, executing a simulation and determining a measure representing the simulation of the process element given the entity element. In some embodiments, the process element represents a business process and the entity element represents a resource unit and the simulation comprises a temporal simulation. Some embodiments further comprise the measure being a completeness measure associated with a decay rate or a repair rate. Some embodiments also include the measure comprising an information product completeness measure. Some embodiments also include automatically determining the process element and the entity element. Systems, to include processor based embodiments having a computer program product to perform the methods are also disclosed.