METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN A DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Patent №

US 8,024,700

Granted

2011-09-20

Filed 2007

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11750763

A method and system constructs a socio-technical network representing design and development processes. In one aspect, a network of inter-personal interactions comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing actors in design and development process is established; an artifacts network comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of heterogeneous artifact types is established; one or more relationships between the nodes in the network of inter-personal interactions are determined; one or more relationships between the nodes of the artifacts network are determined; and one or more relationships between the nodes in the network of inter-personal interactions and the nodes of the artifacts network are determined.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.94
Natural language0.09
Vision0.07
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 198110443

Assignors

CANTOR, MURRAY R., CHULANI, SUNITA D., EHRLICH, KATE, HELANDER, MARY E., VALETTO, GIUSEPPE, WEGMAN, MARK N., WILLIAMS, CLAY E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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