A system, method, and computer program for identifying evolving regions in
a graph of interrelated nodes representing a computer system environment.
The method includes generating a series of samples (302) of the
environment. Each sample includes a plurality of interrelated nodes (502)
and at least one edge (504) classified into a plurality of at least one
of node type and edge type, respectively. A summary (900) of the
plurality of at least one of node type (502) and edge type (504) is
created for the series of samples (302). A summary instance (312) of the
summary (900) is created for each sample. At least one summary instance
(312) is compared to at least one subsequent summary instance (314) and
at least one result (318) is stored in memory (106). A successive
behavior is characterized for one or more of the at least one of the node
type and the edge type.