Enterprise system having a smart distance among artifacts, and apparatus and method for providing the smart distance among the artifacts (US7461125)

a processing device for determining said smart distance between said plurality of artifacts according to a predetermined algorithm, said algorithm comprising:

representing a distance from artifact a_ito artifact a_jas a vector d_ij=<|c₁|, . . . ,|c_I_{_ij}|>;

representing a distance configuration at time τ by a matrix

D ⁡ ( τ ) = ( d 11 ⁡ ( τ ) , … ⁢ , d 1 ⁢ n ⁡ ( τ ) ⋯ d n1 ⁡ ( τ ) , … ⁢ , ⁢ d nn ⁡ ( τ ) ) ;

and

minimizing ∥D(τ)−D_natural(Ω(τ))∥,

wherein an interaction between said artifacts comprises channels c₁, . . . ,c_Iij, |c_Iij| comprises a degree of interaction for a channel c_Iij, Ω(τ) comprises a given contextual/environmental condition at time τ, and D_natural(Ω(τ)) comprises a natural distance configuration.

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