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Clay Edwin Williams

Murray Robert Cantor

Mark N Wegman

Paul Michael Matchen

Vadakkedathu Thomas Rajan

Cemal Yilmaz

Sunita Chulani

Giuseppe Valetto

Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan

Al Chakra

Peter Kenneth Malkin

David Mark Ogle

Tamir Klinger

Peri L Tarr

Mary Elizabeth Helander

Robert Delmonico

Kate Ehrlich

Ying Liu

Xin Zhou

Fan Jing Meng

Jacquelyn Annette Martino

Peter C Bahrs

John Thomas Richards

Amitkumar Manoharrao Paradkar

Rachel K E Bellamy

Tova Roth

Wim De Pauw

Bonnie Kathryn Ray

Dharmashankar Subramanian

Paul Turquand Keyser

Douglas Neil Kimelman

Eric Marshall Nelson

Padmanabhan Santhanam

Shun Xiang Yang

Bard Bloom

Ian D Simmonds

Patrick A Wagstrom

Matthew N Kaplan

Margaret Myers Burnett

Annie T T Ying

Avik Sinha

Wendy D Neuberger

Sarah C McAllister

Steve Abrams

Steven Shu Hsiang Tang

John Matthew Vissides

Joseph A Lawrance

Sunita Devnani Chulani

Giuiseppe Valetto

Matthew M Kaplan

Vedakkedathu T Rajan

A system and method are provided for direct manipulation of a triangular distribution of information. The system includes a graphical user interface for receiving user inputted values. The system further includes a data calculator for generating estimates based on the user inputted values, and for generating curves for display on a grid based on at least one of, the user inputted values and the estimates. The graphical user interface respectively receives the user inputted values based at least on a current position of a pointer on the grid. The graphical user interface is capable of applying a direct manipulation to at least one of the user inputted values and the estimates, such that a result of the direct manipulation is displayed on the grid and enters triplets corresponding to an expected value, an upper bound for the expected value, and a lower bound for the expected value.

System and method for direct manipulation of a triangular distribution of information using a graphical user interface

A system and method are provided for direct manipulation of a triangular distribution of information using a graphical user interface. The system includes a graphical user interface for receiving user inputted values. The system further includes a data calculator for generating estimates based on the user inputted values, and for generating curves for display on a grid based on at least one of, the user inputted values and the estimates. The graphical user interface respectively receives the user inputted values based at least on a current position of a pointer on the grid. The graphical user interface is capable of applying a direct manipulation, based at least on the current position of the pointer on the grid, to at least one of the user inputted values and the estimates, such that a result of the direct manipulation is displayed on the grid.

Reverse metadata viewing by multiple parties, in one aspect, determines one or more second users that share one or more concerns of the first user, enable the first user to select said one or more second users. One or more concerns of said selected one or more second users are determined based on metadata information in electronic artifacts associated with said selected one or more second users. The first user is enabled to explore said one or more concerns of said selected one or more second users.

Reverse metadata viewing by multiple parties

Adapting an existing portfolio optimizer to support one or more valuated dependencies without modifying the existing portfolio optimizer, may include translating one or more original elements and associated dependencies in a portfolio to be optimized based on said one or more valuated dependencies; invoking the existing portfolio optimizer with the translated one or more original elements and associated dependencies; and translating optimization results, if said optimization results contain translated one or more original elements, into a solution characterized in terms of said one or more original elements.

Non-intrusively adapting existing portfolio optimizer for valuated dependencies

A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of one or more places users have visited, determine one or more historical places from the history of one or more places that match the future places, and identify one or more users associated with the determined one or more historical places.

Method and system of determining a prioritized list of users related to a given goal

Method and system for determining estimation variance associated with project planning are provided. In one aspect, information associated with a project is obtained and initial estimations for the tasks in the project are determined using available information. The tasks are performed and actual measurements are obtained from the completed tasks. The actual measurements are used to revise the estimates of the remaining tasks. The revised estimates are used to compute a project level estimate and a variance on that estimate, and to enable better project management.

Determining estimation variance associated with project planning

A method and system of reducing risk in the life cycle of a product, in one aspect, obtain one or more tasks required to achieve an overall task, determine risk impact of each task, the risk impact being an impact of each task on the likelihood of failure for the overall task and compute risk of overall task based on risk impacts of the tasks. The method and system utilize said risk impact of each task to schedule the tasks in such a way so as to reduce said risk of overall task as rapidly as possible.

Method for reducing risk associated with a task

A method of software evolution, software evolution system and program product therefor. A context specification handler stores context specifications describing requirements on context-adapted software. A Software Part Semantics Specification (SPSS) handler stores software part semantics specifications. A Software Implementation (SI) handler stores SIs. Behavior History handler stores a history of active software behavior analysis results of monitoring previous versions. A software rendering handler combines software behavior history with context specification, software part semantics specifications and SIs and distributes (and optionally deploys) context-adapted software. A software inspector continuously monitors context behavior of deployed versions and selectively identifies active context-adapted software failing to satisfy context specification for reassembly of a new version(s).

Software development, deployment and evolution system, method and program product

A method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of component links in a social technical system having a plurality of components representing people and objects are provided. In one aspect, a degree of consistency relative to two or more people working on one or more objects and dependencies between the objects is determined to derive scores for the component links. The method and system identifies gaps in the link and determines the impact of filling the gaps. In another aspect, component links may be ranked and scores aggregated to provide system level quantifications.

Method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of relationships in components of socio-technical system

Systems and methods are provided to produce natural language interpretations of analytic operations in an automated manner, by associating with each analytic procedure a set of parameters that determine the interpretation of the resulting analysis.

Systems and methods for automated interpretation of analytic procedures

A method and system constructs a socio-technical network representing design and development processes. In one aspect, a network of inter-personal interactions comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing actors in design and development process is established; an artifacts network comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of heterogeneous artifact types is established; one or more relationships between the nodes in the network of inter-personal interactions are determined; one or more relationships between the nodes of the artifacts network are determined; and one or more relationships between the nodes in the network of inter-personal interactions and the nodes of the artifacts network are determined.

Method and system for understanding social organization in a design and development process

A method (and system) for generating a structured representation from an unstructured description includes receiving, by a computer, an unstructured description, and generating, by the computer, a structured representation based upon the unstructured description.

System and method for guided and assisted structuring of unstructured information

A system for creating a system configuration data set includes an input operable to receive a set of system properties with attributes and values and a set of expressions representing a set of system test goals. The system further includes a processor operable to define a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of nodes where each node represents one of the system properties and includes at least one of the attributes and the values and an output operable to output a set of system test data utilizing the hierarchical tree structure combined with the expressions. A method includes creating a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of nodes where each node represents a system property. The method further includes receiving a set of expressions representing a set of system test goals and creating a set of system test data utilizing the hierarchical tree structure combined with the expressions.

Constraint programming for reduction of system test-configuration-matrix complexity

A method for automated software debugging includes steps of: receiving an interface configured for accessing a program; receiving a behavioral model of the program; receiving a failing input sequence from the program; executing the failing input sequence on both the behavioral model and the program; validating, after each executing step, an expected behavior of the program by executing specially constructed test sequences from the behavioral model; performing model mutation for creating a hypothesis of faulty behaviors; verifying hypothesized faulty behaviors; and scoring hypothesized faulty behaviors for producing a ranked list of diagnoses. The method also includes a step of presenting the ranked list of diagnoses to a user.

Problem determination via model-based debugging

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