PULSE-WIDTH MODULATED REPRESENTATION OF THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL PARAMETERS UPON RESOURCE CRITICALITY

摘要

A method and associated systems for predicting when a resource will become critical to a business. A processor of a computer system identifies a resource as being capable of becoming critical to a business by identifying a historic impact of the resource as a function of prior incidents during which a disruption of the resource had resulted in a severe impact upon the business. The processor further identifies performance parameters and social parameters that were related to these prior periods of criticality and uses these parameters, along with real-time measurements of the performance parameters, to derive a performance index and a social business index that allow the processor to determine whether the resource will become critical during a current or future time period. The processor represents this current or future period of criticality as a pulse-width modulated waveform that may be further processed by automated means.