Automated corruption analysis of service designs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9229685-B2
Application number	US-201213599320-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 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. A method comprising:
utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code configured to perform the steps of:
accepting 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;
automatically assessing human-related corrupting factors within the service design via consulting a corruption pattern database which stores pre-defined corruption patterns in structured format, and inspecting the service design for pre-defined corruption patterns from the database;
automatically generating 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
automatically generating an alternative service design, wherein said generating is triggered based on a threshold corruption susceptibility score.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising developing corrective suggestions for developing subsequent service designs.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said generating of an alternative service design comprises consulting a historical database to incorporate learning from prior corrective measures stored in the historical database.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein said consulting comprises accessing service design components contributing to a compliant corruption susceptibility score.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein said generating of an alternative service design further comprises consulting the corruption pattern database.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said generating of an alternative service design comprises consulting the corruption pattern database.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said assessing comprises consulting a policy database.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the corruption susceptibility score includes a component of categorizing beneficiaries of a service.

9. The method according to claim 1 , 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