International Business Machines Corporation

Brenda Lynn Dietrich

Bonnie Kathryn Ray

Chidanand V Apte

Aaron K Baughman

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Arun Hampapur

Andrew William Senior

Palani Sakthi

Michael S Karasick

Walter C Dietrich, Jr

Arnold Greenland

Robert James Wittrock

Yousuf Mohamed Ashparie

Russell Alan Rushmeier

Clifford A Pickover

Lawrence Shungwei Mok

Seshashayee Sankarshana Murthy

Kevin Patrick McAuliffe

Jennifer Ceil Lai

Yan Liu

Frederick Yung-Fung Wu

Jung-Mu Tang

Ramesh Srinivasan

John Joseph Forrest

John Peter Fasano

Rama Kalyani Tirumala Akkiraju

Grace Yuh-Jiun Lin

John Nathan Rachlin

Elizabeth Jodi Poole

Robert Y Wang

Pinar Keskinocak

Daeki Kim

Thomas O'Leary

David Lawton Shannon

Sarah Jean Hood

Laureano F Escudero

Various embodiments provide systems, computer program products and computer implemented methods. In some embodiments, a system includes a method of providing a confidence-estimation-based inference, the method includes receiving a query concerning a patient from a user, accessing an electronic health record (EHR) for the patient, the EHR including a first component regarding the patient, querying the user, using a conversational interface, for a second component regarding the patient, receiving the second component regarding the patient in response to the query, calculating a first probability density function using the first component, and a second probability density function using the second component, combining the first and second probability density functions using a Gaussian mixture model, calculating at least one conditional probability table using the Gaussian mixture model and providing the confidence-estimation-based inference based on the at least one conditional probability table.

Evidence based medical record

A governing modeling system maintains information associated with an analytic model. One or more policies may be defined that are associated with the analytic model and one or more instances of the analytic model. The system may monitor the analytic model and the one or more instances of the analytic model based on at least some of the information, the one or more policies associated with the analytic model and the one or more policies associated with the one or more instances of the analytic model.

Analytic model lifecycle maintenance and invalidation policies

Various embodiments provide systems, computer program products and computer implemented methods. In some embodiments, a system includes a method of providing a confidence-estimation-based inference, the method includes receiving a query concerning a patient from a user, accessing an electronic health record (EHR) for the patient, the EHR including a first component regarding the patient, querying the user, using a conversational interface, for a second component regarding the patient, the second component being in a natural language information form, receiving the second component regarding the patient in response to the query, calculating a first probability density function using the first component, and a second probability density function using the second component, combining the first and second probability density functions using a Gaussian mixture model, calculating at least one conditional probability table using the Gaussian mixture model and providing the confidence-estimation-based inference based on the at least one conditional probability table.

A method and system for capturing expert behavior that the expert is not even necessarily conscious of, such as gaze patterns, that are tied to positive outcomes, and to create a catalog (e.g. database) of these behaviors. The system compares the current behavior of a person, for example a novice, against this catalog of expert behaviors. If the current behavior is significantly different, the system would adapt various aspects of the interface to bring the current behavior closer in line to that of the expert.

Method and system for controlling skill acquisition interfaces

A method for considering constraints imposed by the bidders in auctions for multiple items. The invention discloses representative examples of such constraints. We demonstrate that a winner determination problem may be formulated as an integer program, and may be solved by commercially available software packages. This invention includes both a business process of auctioning multiple items with constraints specified by the bidder, and a computer implemented method for determining winners in such an auction.

Auctions for multiple items with constraints specified by the bidders

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.

Method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers

The present invention provides a method for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.

Method for analyzing usage of printers

Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender, age group, height) are extracted from the customer image data and sent to the customer image database. Point-of-sale transaction data is collected and sent to a transaction database where the transaction data is stored. A computer processes customer image data, transaction data, and attributes relating to the customer image data and transaction data, to correlate extracted demographic data to transaction data. The correlated data is preferably sent to a target marketing database and used to generate a market research report.

Method and system for targeted marketing by leveraging video-based demographic insights

A method for determining the set of winning bids in a combinatorial auction. Two variants of the method are disclosed. The first method is appropriate when the number of players and the number of combinations of items that are bid on by an individual player are relatively small. The second method is applicable when either of these values becomes large.

Method for determining the set of winning bids in a combinatorial auction

A system, includes a user input device, a temperature changing unit coupled to the user input device, and a controller, coupled to the temperature changing unit, for controlling the temperature of the user input device.

Temperature-controlled user interface

A computer implemented method pertinent to yield managed service contract pricing. The method comprises the steps of inputting first information comprising a baseline profiling services contracted to zero or more existing customers; inputting second information comprising a profile of the services to be contracted to one or more new customers; and analyzing second information in the context of first information for the purpose of determining a range of prices to be considered for the services to be contracted.

Method and system for yield managed service contract pricing

Prediction methods that anticipate the outcome of a detailed optimization step are used in lieu of or in conjunction with actual optimization to improve response time and reduce required computational resources for optimization problems having a hierarchical structure. Decomposition of the optimization problem into sub-problems and sub-sub-problems is, itself, an optimization process which is iteratively performed while preferably guided by prediction of the quality of solutions to the problems into which the &ldquo;master&rdquo; optimization problem may be decomposed. Prediction also reduces the requirements for computational resources and allows more decompositions to be examined within the available time in order to arrive at a more nearly optimal decomposition as well as a more nearly optimal solution. Prediction is selectively used when it is determined that such a benefit is probable.

Optimization prediction for industrial processes

A method for combining pattern matching and optimization. The method includes the steps of reading the data elements and corresponding attributes for each of the two data files; performing pattern matching on the elements and the corresponding attributes of each of the two files read in this step; performing optimization on the results for finding a best total matching of the elements of the two files; and, outputting a file selected from the group consisting of the matches produced by step 3, and a file containing the elements that are not matched.

Method and system for combining pattern matching and optimization

A method suitable for producing a production plan that is feasible with respect to capacity availability. The method includes the steps of reading an end product demand and capacity availability information; selecting a specific demand derived from the end product demand and comprising an end product, a time period, and a quantity; determining whether the quantity can be produced in the time periods using the available capacity and surplus capacity from earlier periods; and, recording the amount of capacity used in each time period to produce this quantity; thereby enabling realization of end product demand when an imbalance of demand and capacity exists.

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