International Business Machines Corporation

Arcangelo Di Balsamo

Sandro Piccinini

Alessandro Donatelli

Franco Mossotto

Claudio Marinelli

Fabio Benedetti

Salvatore D'Alo'

Francesca Liliana Pasceri

Nicola Milanese

Luigi Presti

Luca Lazzaro

Giovanni Lanfranchi

Eliana Cerasaro

Luigi Schiuma

Massimo D'Alessandro

Giuseppe Longobardi

Alessandro Scotti

Salvatore D'Alo

Flora Tramontano Guerritore

Luigi Pichetti

Stefano Sidoti

Rosario Gangemi

Cristina Bonanni

Fabio Cerri

Filomena Ferrara

Pietro Iannucci

Francesco Brillante

Salvatore D'Alo′

Francesco Dauri

Giovanni Falchetti

Kristof R Kloeckner

Scot MacLellan

Ilaria Gorga

Marco De Santis

Marco Morucci

Giorgia Iarussi

Scot Maclellan

Ziantoni Francesca

Valentina Migliaccio

Systems and methods for software tracking and management are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, by a computing device, build output code from one or more user computer devices via a network, wherein the build output code is generated in response to a software build; automatically identifying, by the computing device, differences between the build output code and associated in-production software code; automatically mapping, by the computing device, the differences to microservices of the in-production software code; and generating, by the computing device, a list of microservices of the in-production software code affected by the differences in a rollout of the build output code based on the mapping.

Software change tracking and management

A method and system for processing a request. Extracted elements of the request are categorized in accordance with an ontology model, thereby generating ontology components assigned to the extracted elements. A knowledge base includes data indicative of solutions for requests. The solutions for requests in the knowledge base are categorized in accordance with the ontology model. Categorizing the elements includes for each element: determining a concept of the element wherein the element is an instance or a class of the determined concept and determining relations between the elements, wherein the ontology components include the determined concepts, instances and relations. The knowledge base is searched using the generated ontology components, thereby identifying solutions for the request. The identified solutions are provided.

Processing a request

A diagnosis server for collaborating with electronic noses, a related mobile diagnosis unit and a related method may be provided. A diagnosis server may comprise a receiver unit for receiving a set of data from one out of a plurality of e-noses. The set of data may comprise a sensor identifier, a sensor output value, and a relevance flag for a predefined diagnosis. A determination unit may determine a probability factor for the predefined diagnosis based on the set of data, a relevance function and a distribution function.

Collaborative electronic nose management in personal devices

A method and system for improving a functioning of critical execution computing machines. A promoted critical execution computing machine determines one or more correction actions for reducing an impact of an execution issue on execution of critical work units by respective critical execution computing machines on the execution of the critical work units by the respective critical execution computing machines according to global correction information, local correction information, and peer correction information. The global correction information had been received from a scheduling computing machine and relates to the critical work units and to the critical execution computing machines. The local correction information relates to each corresponding critical work unit and to a status of the promoted critical execution computing machine. The peer correction information relates to the corresponding critical work units and to a corresponding status of the other critical execution computing machines.

Workload management with delegated correction of execution issues for improving a functioning of computing machines

A method and associated system. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of impacting system events according to the workload plan and corresponding expected impacts of the impacting system events of system events on execution of impacted work units of work units. Predicting the expected problems includes: identifying workload deadlines relating to the impacted work units in the workload plan; estimating intervention times for addressing the expected problems before missing the corresponding workload deadlines; determining corresponding minimum times required to fulfill the workload deadlines according to a progress of the workload plan; and estimating each of the intervention times further according to the minimum time of the corresponding workload deadline. An intervention program of system interventions on the computing system is established. The system interventions address the current occurrences of impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems.

System interventions based on expected impacts of system events on scheduled work units

Expected impacts of one or more impacting system events of one or more system events on execution of one or more impacted work units of one or more work units are estimated according to (i) system event historical information indicative of previous occurrences in a computing system of the one or more system events and (ii) work unit historical information indicative of previous executions of the one or more work units. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected impacts and the workload plan. An intervention program of one or more system interventions on the computing system is established. The system interventions address the current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems. An indication of the intervention program for programming the system interventions accordingly is outputted.

System interventions based on expected impacts of system events on schedule work units

A method and system for processing a request document including a request. The request document is processed using a question analysis function of a question answering system, thereby extracting elements of the request. The question answering system has multiple functions including the question analysis function. The extracted elements are categorized in accordance with an ontology model, thereby generating ontology components assigned to the extracted elements. A knowledge base includes data indicative of solutions for requests. The solutions for requests in the knowledge base are categorized in accordance with the ontology model. The knowledge base is searched using the generated ontology components, thereby identifying solutions for the request. The identified solutions are provided.

Processing request documents

A method and system for improving a functioning of critical execution computing machines by reducing an impact of an execution issue on execution of critical work units by respective critical execution computing machines. A promoted critical execution computing machine receives global correction information relating to the critical work units and to the critical execution computing machines. The execution issue impacts execution of the critical work units by each critical execution computing machine. One critical work unit had been promoted to become a promoted critical work unit that is to be executed by the promoted critical execution computing machine. The promoted critical execution computing machine: collects local correction information, receives peer correction information, determines one or more correction actions according to the global correction information, the local correction information, and the peer correction information, and causes an application of the corresponding correction actions onto the critical execution computing machines.

A method and system. System event historical information indicative of previous occurrences in a computing system of system events is retrieved. Work unit historical information indicative of previous executions of work units is retrieved. Expected impacts of impacting system events of the system events on the execution of one or more impacted work units of the work units are estimated according to the system event historical information and the work unit historical information. Expected problems in a workload plan are predicted in response to any current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected impacts and the workload plan An intervention program of one or more system interventions on the computing system is established, the system interventions addressing the current occurrences of the impacting system events according to the corresponding expected problems. An indication of the intervention program for programming the system interventions accordingly is outputted.

A system and diagnosis server are provided for collaborating with electronic noses, as well as a related mobile diagnosis unit and related method. The diagnosis server includes a receiver unit for receiving a set of data from one e-nose of a plurality of e-noses. The set of data may include a sensor identifier, a sensor output value, and a relevance flag for a predefined diagnosis. In addition, a determination unit determines a probability factor for the predefined diagnosis based on the set of data, a relevance function and a distribution function.

A method for upgrading a database schema in real time, wherein the database schema is associated with a plurality of databases is provided. The method may include installing a first plugin on a database upgrade process associated with a database. The method may include installing a second plugin on each database instance within the plurality of databases. The method may include determining a delta associated with a final target version of the database schema. Additionally, the method may include outlining an existence of an incongruence, an existence of an override or an existence of a customization removal based on the determined delta. The method may include performing a peer-to-peer broadcasting analysis between each database. The method may include defining a migration strategy for each database instance within the plurality of databases based on the peer-to-peer broadcasting analysis. The method may further include creating a script for upgrading the database schema.

Database schema upgrade as a service

Testing execution of workloads in a computing system is provided. The testing includes: providing a definition of one or more workloads for each one of a plurality of users of the computing system, mapping each production computing machine of each test workload on a staging computing machine of a staging environment common to the users, mirroring the production computing machine, executing each work unit of each test workload on the corresponding staging computing machine, and determining a test result of an execution of each test workload according to an execution result of one or more executions of the work units of the test workload.

Test of the execution of workloads in a computing system

Assisting a user in developing a software program. A program code of the software program being under development is monitored to identify each code portion of the program code matching a matched one of a plurality of code patterns. A search request is submitted for searching, among a plurality of available services provided by corresponding service providers for the code patterns, each eligible service for the matched code pattern. An indication of at least one eligible service being found is received when a result of the search is positive, prompting the user to select a replacement service among the at least one eligible service in response to the positive result of the search. The code portion is replaced with an invocation of the replacement service on the corresponding service provider.

Collaborative development of software programs based on service invocations

Dynamic pool reallocation performed by the following steps: (i) defining a plurality of resource pools including a first pool and a second pool, where each resource pool has a plurality of assigned resources; (ii) receiving a plurality of jobs to be executed; (iii) for each job of the plurality of jobs, assigning a respective resource pool, of the plurality of resource pools, to be used in completing the job; (iv) determining a preliminary schedule for executing the jobs on their respective resource pools; (v) determining whether the preliminary schedule will cause any jobs to miss service level agreement (SLA) deadlines corresponding to the job; (vi) executing the plurality of jobs on their respectively assigned resource pools; and (vii) re-assigning first resource from the second pool to the first pool during at least some of the time of the execution of the first job by the first resource pool.

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