Automated corruption analysis of service designs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9229684-B2
Application number	US-201213361675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2012
Priority date	Jan 30, 2012
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

Methods and arrangements for conducting corruption analysis of service designs. A service design is accepted. Corrupting factors within the service design are assessed, and a corruption susceptibility score is generated. An alternative service design is generated responsive to a corruption susceptibility score fulfilling predetermined criteria.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the at least one processor, the computer readable program code comprising:
computer readable program code configured to accept a service design related to at least one human-provided service, wherein the service design is expressed formally as a business process workflow, and design elements based on a service ontology;
computer readable program code configured to automatically assess human-related corrupting factors within the service design via consulting a corruption pattern database which stores pre-defined corruption patterns in structured format, and automatically inspecting the service design for pre-defined corruption patterns from the database;
computer readable program code configured to automatically generate a corruption susceptibility score based on the assessed corrupting factors, the corruption susceptibility score indicating a level of human-related corruptibility in the service design;
the corruption susceptibility score being a function of at least a quantitative component relating to verifiability of identification criteria; and
computer readable program code configured to automatically generate an alternative service design, wherein the generating is triggered based on a threshold corruption susceptibility score.

2. A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
computer readable program code configured to accept a service design related to at least one human-provided service, wherein the service design is expressed formally as a business process workflow, and design elements based on a service ontology;
computer readable program code configured to automatically assess human-related corrupting factors within the service design via consulting a corruption pattern database which stores pre-defined corruption patterns in structured format, and automatically inspecting the service design for pre-defined corruption patterns from the database;
computer readable program code configured to automatically generate a corruption susceptibility score based on the assessed corrupting factors, the corruption susceptibility score indicating a level of human-related corruptibility in the service design;
the corruption susceptibility score being a function of at least a quantitative component relating to verifiability of identification criteria; and
computer readable program code configured to automatically generate an alternative service design, wherein the generating is triggered based on a threshold corruption susceptibility score.

3. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein said computer readable program code is further configured to develop corrective suggestions for developing subsequent service designs.

4. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein said computer readable program code is configured to generate an alternative service design via consulting a historical database to incorporate learning from prior corrective measures stored in the historical database.

5. The computer program product according to claim 4 , wherein said computer readable program code is configured to access service design components contributing to a compliant corruption susceptibility score.

6. The computer program product according to claim 4 , wherein said computer readable program code is further configured to generate an alternative service design via consulting a corruption pattern database.

7. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein said computer readable program code is further configured to generate an alternative service design via consulting a corruption pattern database.

8. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein said computer readable program code is configured to assess via consulting a policy database.

9. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein the corruption susceptibility score includes a component of categorizing beneficiaries of a service.

10. The computer program product according to claim 2 , wherein the corruption susceptibility score includes a component of categorizing a mode of targeting a service to beneficiaries.

Assignees

• Bhamidipaty Anuradha
• Hartman Alan
• Jain Anshu Narendra
• Rajshree Nidhi
• IBM

Inventors

• Bhamidipaty Anuradha
• Hartman Alan
• Jain Anshu Narendra
• Rajshree Nidhi

Classifications

• G06Q50/26 Primary

  Government or public services (business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40) · CPC title

• G06F7/00 Primary

  Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled (logic circuits H03K19/00) · CPC title