The Boeing Company

Ali Bahrami

Jun Yuan

Changzhou Wang

Robab Safa-Bakhsh

Don M O'Connell

Philip M Denby

Babak Hamidzadeh

Paul Clark Parks

Jihad Boulos

A system including a context-entity factory configured to build a data model defining an ontology of data objects that are context-aware, the model further defining metadata tags for the data objects. The system further includes a storage device storing the data objects as stored data objects, the device further storing associated contexts for corresponding ones of the stored objects. The system further includes a reduction component configured to capture a current context value of a first data object defined in the ontology, the component further configured to compare the current context value of the first data object with stored values of the associated contexts, and wherein when the current context value does not match a particular stored value of a particular associated context, the component is further configured to remove a corresponding particular stored data object and the particular associated context from the stored data objects.

System and method of reduction of irrelevant information during search

Method, system and computer program product for providing a predicted vehicle track and for providing alerts when two predicted vehicle tracks are closer than a threshold amount. A vehicle intent prediction model is generated based on past instance of tracks for a vehicle operation, known vehicle intent data for the past instances, and contextual factors, such as weather, airline operator, air vehicle type or configuration, day of the week, etc. for the past instances. The vehicle intent prediction model can be generated using one or more machine learning algorithms. A future vehicle trajectory for a current vehicle operation can be output by the vehicle intent prediction model using the current track and existing contextual factors for the current vehicle operation. In the event that two vehicles following their respective predicted vehicle future trajectories would be closer than a threshold distance, an alert can be provided.

Data driven airplane intent inferencing

A method includes retrieving, at a context sensor associated with an information object, first contextual information from a source external to the context sensor. The first contextual information includes domain-independent information associated with the information object. The method also includes generating second contextual information based on application of at least one derivation rule to the first contextual information. Alternately, or in addition, the second contextual information may be generated based on application of the at least one derivation rule to a combination of the first contextual information and other contextual information associated with another context sensor. The second contextual information includes domain-specific information associated with the information object. The method further includes adding the second contextual information to the information object.

Methods and systems of processing contextual information

A computer is used to generate an approximation of a workflow in terms of worklets and transitions. Each worklet represents a phase of work in the workflow. Each transition indicates conditions for completion of a worklet. Each worklet includes at least one assistlet having executable code that will be executed for approximating of its work phase.

Workflow modeling with worklets and transitions

A computer-based method for correlating relevant information from multiple entities based on contextual correspondence is described. The method includes receiving, at a computer, information relating to a plurality of the multiple entities, the information including data features and context features, correlating the data features utilizing one or more algorithms running on the computer, correlating the context features utilizing one or more algorithms running on the computer, and aggregating the plurality of the multiple entities based on both a correspondence of the data features and a correspondence of the context features for at least one of storage in a memory associated with the computer and output as data from the computer.

Methods and systems for context-aware entity correspondence and merging

A method for context-based query formulation and information retrieval and aggregation is described. The method includes modeling one or more workflow activities utilized to perform work tasks, preparing at least one meta-querying template, to generate queries that utilize the modeled workflow activities, retrieving information relevant to the work task as determined utilizing the at least one meta-querying template, and aggregating the retrieved information for presentation to the user.

Methods and systems for context based query formulation and information retrieval

A processor, a method, and a program executable by a processor and residing on a machine readable memory are each configured to define work phases achieved at the direction of a person in interaction with a computing device. A first program component is configured to divide the work phase performed into at least one work object and at least one transition object. The worklet object has a boundary and includes at least one input data class, and at least one output data class, and at least one act upon the at least one input data class to produce the at least one output data class. The transition object is configured to include a decision gate succeeding each work phase. The decision gate configured to allow progress out of the boundary upon satisfaction of a boundary condition.

Worklet modeling

A method of modeling operational and/or logical aspects of a system in a system-of-systems environment. Modeling components of generic structure are used to obtain a logical model of the system. The logical model and the modeling components of generic structure are used to obtain related models targeted toward the aspects. The related models are implemented to determine effects of the aspects on the system and/or system-of-systems.

Integrated system-of-systems modeling environment and related methods

A system for retrieval and aggregation of information resulting from context-based queries includes one or more programmed worklets and a plurality of interconnected computer systems. The computer systems are collectively programmed to model the workflow activities worklets distinct from assistlets to recognize work people perform and to suitably represent such work, generate queries through a meta-querying template that utilize the modeled worklets received from a first processing unit, retrieve information relevant to the work task in response to the queries from a plurality of data sources, and aggregate the retrieved information for presentation to the user.

A method for providing closed-loop analysis of a business process includes using modeling objects to extend a modeling language to obtain a representation language. The representation language is used to obtain at least one model of the process. The model is implemented using at least one of simulation, project management analysis, workflow analysis and computer-aided software engineering. The method allows a variety of COTS products to be integrated into a single tool for process modeling and closed-loop analysis of business processes.

System and methods for business process modeling

The present invention provides a system and method for the efficient indexing and delivery of information to interested users who have expressed an interest in or 'subscribed' to information items that are continuously released or 'published' by some data source in XML format. Previously, publish and subscribe systems accepted keyword-based subscription profiles and did not support subscription to XML documents according to their structures. Direct approach to implement XML-based publish and subscribe system by checking each user profile against an XML document is very time consuming. The presentation invention, though, provides an efficient method to identify interested subscribers for each XML document by indexing queries utilizing a graphical structure of nodes. When an XML document is published, the index identifies all matched expressions in the index and delivers at least a portion of an XML document to a user who has expressed an interest in receiving this information.

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Ali Bahrami