International Business Machines Corporation

Francisco Phelan Curbera

Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata

Aleksander A Slominski

Axel Martens

Nirmal K Mukhi

Chung-Sheng Li

Shilpa N Mahatma

Huong Thu Morris

Kevin Patrick McAuliffe

Paul Turquand Keyser

Rania Yousef Khalaf

Sharon C Adler

Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan

Yajuan Wang

Shahram Ebadollahi

Gigi Y C Yuen-Reed

Corville O Allen

Ajay Mohindra

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Shubir Kapoor

John William Alcorn

Matthew Jason Duftler

David Alexander Epstein

Rose Marie Williams

Ock Kee Baek

Maria Eleftheriou

Gigi Yuen-Reed

Houtan Aghili

Richard Martin Scott

Pratul Gupta

Geetika T Lakskhmanan

John Richard Smith

Suresh N Chari

Yuichi Nakamura

Gal A Shachor

Lilla Boroczky

Michael L Fraenkel

Fumiko Satoh

Shinichi Hirose

David Andrew Booz

Douglas Charles Lovell

Merve Unuvar

Paula K Austel

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Rose M Williams

Mark H Overman

Maria Eleftherou

Florian F Rosenberg

Johannes Riemer

Mark Howard Overman

A mechanism is provided to review and verify provenance of analytic execution by a contract analytic binding and provenance system. The mechanism is activated to execute a set of analytics for a contract and verifies outcomes of the analytics before writing them to a blockchain network. The mechanism evaluates the provenance data records stored on peer ledgers and establishes transparency of the outcomes by validating consensus between characteristics of the provenance data.

Computer mechanism for analytics outcome transparency

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a healthcare analytics management system. A healthcare analytics development sub-system of the healthcare analytics management system develops an analytics pipeline of a set of analytics assets for a selected healthcare based on a set of business needs for a healthcare analytics client and a healthcare analytics model based on the set of analytics assets and the set of business needs. The healthcare analytics model links to the analytics pipeline. A model deployment module of a healthcare analytics operation sub-system of the healthcare analytics management system deploys the healthcare analytics model on a set of computing devices of the selected healthcare consumer. Responsive to a model monitoring module of the healthcare analytics operation sub-system detecting a performance deviation of the deployed healthcare analytics model for performance deviation from the set of business needs for the healthcare analytics client, a model feedback module of the healthcare analytics operation sub-system determines improvement needs for the healthcare analytics model. The model feedback module feeds the improvement needs back to the healthcare analytics development sub-system. The healthcare analytics development sub-system customizes the healthcare analytics model based on the improvement needs.

Scalable and traceable healthcare analytics management

A mechanism is provided to implement a contract analytic binding and provenance system. The mechanism loads contract rules for an agreement between a plurality of contract parties and creates an analytic entry per rule to form a set of analytic entries, Each analytic entry is associated with an executable analytic function. The mechanism assigns each analytic entry a directed acyclic graph vertex. The mechanism confirms alignment between the contract rules and the set of analytic entries and stores the set of analytic entries in peer ledgers associated with the plurality of contract parties. The mechanism activates the set of analytic entries responsive to confirming provenance of the peer ledgers associated with the plurality of contract parties.

Contract analytic binding and provenance

Performing an operation comprising generating, by a computing system based on data received from a plurality of data sources, a data model describing a patient, wherein the data comprises medical history data of the patient and observation data received by the computing system during observation of at least one medical professional, generating, by the computing system and based on the model applied to the received data, a plurality of candidate diagnoses for the patient, executing, by the computing system, a plurality of simulations of a plurality of candidate treatments generated by the computing system based on the model, and identifying a first candidate treatment of the plurality of candidate treatments that reduces an uncertainty value of the data model below a threshold.

Medical diagnosis system with continuous learning and reasoning

A mechanism is provided to implement a healthcare analytics management system. A healthcare analytics development sub-system develops an analytics pipeline of a set of analytics assets for a selected healthcare based on a set of business needs for a healthcare analytics client and a healthcare analytics model based on the set of analytics assets and the set of business needs. A model deployment module of a healthcare analytics operation sub-system deploys the healthcare analytics model on a set of computing devices of the selected healthcare consumer. Responsive to detecting a performance deviation of the deployed healthcare analytics model from the set of business needs, a model feedback module determines improvement needs for the healthcare analytics model. The model feedback module feeds the improvement needs back to the healthcare analytics development sub-system. The healthcare analytics development sub-system customizes the healthcare analytics model based on the improvement needs.

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for identifying symptoms based on digital media. The method includes one or more processors receiving digital media and information associated with a first animal from a user. The method further includes one or more processors identifying data records, stored in a knowledge database, that are respectively associated with an animal that is similar to the first animal. The method further includes one or more processors determining symptom information corresponding to the first animal based on a comparison of the received digital media and information associated with the first animal and the identified data records. The method further includes presenting the determined symptom information to a user.

Determining information based on an analysis of images and video

A method, computing system and computer program product are provided. A first entity system that stores sensitive information associated with different entities applies a hash function a portion of the sensitive information to produce hash values. Transaction information pertaining to transactions performed on entity systems are stored within a blockchain database accessible to the entity systems. The transaction information includes hash values corresponding to associated entities from the entity systems. The hash values of the first entity system are compared to the hash values from others of the entity systems to determine entity systems containing information pertaining to same entities. The sensitive information for an entity of the first entity system is exchanged with the determined entity systems containing information for that entity.

Creating match cohorts and exchanging protected data using blockchain

An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user's computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user's computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user's computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user's computing environment.

Healthcare as a service&#x2014;downloadable enterprise application

Systems and methods for determining a representation of an execution trace include identifying at least one execution trace of a business process model, the business process model including parallel paths where a path influences an outcome of a decision. Path information of the business process model is determined using a processor, the path information including at least one of task execution order for each parallel path, task execution order across parallel paths, and dependency between parallel paths. A path representation for the at least one execution trace is selected based upon the path information to determine a representation of the at least one execution trace.

Leveraging path information to generate predictions for parallel business processes

A method, system and computer program product for security model for workflows aggregating third party secure services. In one embodiment, a workflow model described in a workflow language is provided and configured to declare security requirements of a composite application integrating protected data from two or more external network resources. The method also incorporates providing an authentication service executing on at least one secure server computer. The authentication service is configured to conduct user authentication and authorization to access the protected data at the external network resources on behalf of the composite application executing on at least one host server computer according to the workflow language.

Security model for workflows aggregating third party secure services

Techniques are disclosed for capturing and visualizing data lineage in content management systems. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A plurality of data sets is received. Each of the data sets is associated with a party and comprises a plurality of information. A set of lineage data about one or more of the data sets is received. The lineage data comprises information about the history of a particular data set. A user interface is presented that conveys a representation of one or more of the plurality of received data sets and at least a portion of the lineage data about the history of one or more of the data sets. A command is received at the user interface to merge or unmerge two data sets in the plurality of data sets. Two or more data sets in the plurality of data sets are merged or unmerged based on the received command.

Capturing and visualizing data lineage in content management system

Techniques are disclosed for extracting information through analysis of provenance data. For example, a computer-implemented method of extracting information regarding an execution of an enterprise process comprises the following steps. Provenance data is generated, wherein the provenance data is based on collected data associated with an actual end-to-end execution of the enterprise process and is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph is generated that provides a visual representation of the generated provenance data, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. At least a portion of the generated provenance data from the graph is analyzed so as to extract information about the execution of the enterprise process based on the analysis.

Extracting enterprise information through analysis of provenance data

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for processing application code. In one embodiment, a call is received to invoke a set of methods of annotated application code. The annotated application code includes a set of annotations specifying a selection of the set of methods. A selected method from the set of methods is invoked in response to determining that the call is valid according to the set of annotations. Thereafter, a subsequent set of valid methods for execution is identified based upon an annotation associated with the selected method.

Controlling navigation of application logic using annotated application code

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Francisco Phelan Curbera