HIERARCHICAL EVALUATION OF CELLS

摘要

A technique is provided for determining a hierarchical effectiveness for a cell in a data structure (Figure 7). Data Structure information (707) is input into a tool (701) for deciding which cells in a hierarchical data structure should be employed when executing a task on the data structure. A cell hierarchical effectiveness ranking module (703) determines a hierarchical effectiveness ranking for each cell in the input data structure. A total hierarchical effectiveness determination module (705) determines the total hierarchical effectiveness of using various cells of the input data structure based upon the rankings provided by the cell hierarchical effectiveness ranking module (703). The cell hierarchical effectiveness ranking module (703) and the total hierarchical effectiveness determination module (705) continue to exchange data until the list (709) of selected cells is obtained.