International Business Machines Corporation

Giuseppe Ciano

Luigi Pichetti

Mauro Arcese

Gianluca Della Corte

Giuseppe Longobardi

Antonio Mario Sgro

Marco De Santis

Stefano Sidoti

Claudio Marinelli

Alessandro Donatelli

Francesca Curzi

Francesco Lecciso

Giancarlo Carbone

Luisa Attanasio

Maurizio Simeoni

Gianluca Bernardini

Scot MacLellan

Antonio Di Cocco

Marco Martino

Roberto Piras

Roberto Giordani

Angelo Albanese

Salvatore D'Angelo

Paolo Salerno

Marco Imperia

Randa Salem

Gianluca Perreca

Valeria Perticara′

Armando Panniello

Damiano Vesperini

Davide Di Meco

Antonio Perrone

Cristina Bonanni

Paolo Cavazza

Leonida Gianfagna

Francesco Maria Carteri

Filomena Ferrara

Andre Tost

Jayashree Ramanathan

Sreekrishnan Venkiteswaran

Alessandro Ghezzi

Luigi Massa

Pietro Marella

Leonardo Modeo

Antonio M Sgro'

Valeria Perticara'

Jon P Weiser

Matt Hartenbower

Kapuveera R Reddy

Marco Esposito

Hsiao-Choong Thio

Marcin Mirecki

Louisa Lentile

A solution is proposed for controlling usage of computing services. A corresponding method comprises allocating a new usage token to a user in response to a usage entitlement thereof being insufficient to meet a usage weight of a new computing service. The usage entitlement is updated according to the new usage token and the usage weight of the new computing service, and the usage of the new computing service is enabled in response thereto. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a system for implementing the method is proposed.

Control of usage of computing services based on dynamic grouping

An approach is described with respect to dynamically constructing and configuring a conversational agent learning model. Various aspects of the conversational agent learning model may be constructed and updated without continuous intervention of a domain administrator. A method pertaining to such approach may include retrieving a corpus of information. The corpus of information may include records from a set of repositories and external data, including data from social networks or applications. The method further may include configuring the conversational agent learning model based upon the retrieved corpus of information. The method further may include deploying the conversational agent learning model by facilitating interaction between the conversational agent learning model and a plurality of clients. The method further may include updating the conversational agent learning model to address any modification to the corpus of information.

Dynamically constructing and configuring a conversational agent learning model

A security system executing on an intelligent assistant is provided. A computing device receives communicated data from a user within a threshold level of proximity of an intelligent assistant. A computing device determines an identity of the user based, in part, on the communicated data. Responsive to a computing device (i) analyzing the communicated data and (ii) a history of interactions between the user and an authorized user of the intelligent assistant, the one or more processors generate a predicted response of the authorized user to the communicated data. A computing data communicated the predicted response to the user via the intelligent assistant.

Adaptive security system

Facilities of a shared environment are automatically optimized by inferring sentiment from unstructured conversational data towards various environmental entities such as heat, light, service levels, etc. Conversational audio streams from different areas are analyzed to identify an entity and associated sentiment, and a heatmap is created representing the sentiment across the different areas. The conversational audio streams are captured by directional microphones and are assigned metadata such as a location tag indicating a position of a microphone within the shared environment. Heatmap creation can be supplemented by other sensory data. A cognitive system is used to generate actions for control of the facilities based on the heatmap. A suggested action may still be subject to operational policies for the facility. In some scenarios a first suggested facility action compensates for an effect of a second suggested facility action.

Inferring sentiment to manage crowded spaces by using unstructured data

A method is provided for message pre-processing. The method compares a topic of a received message to previous messages to determine if the topic has already been addressed using a processor that assigns answer weights. Each of the answer weights represents a likelihood a previous message addresses the topic. The likelihood is determined by comparing each answer weight to a threshold such that at least a given one of the previous messages having the highest weight above the threshold is considered to have addressed the topic. The method automatically generates a draft response that addresses the topic if the topic has not already been addressed, based on a prior discussion having a highest one of the answer weights from among a set of prior discussions in the previous messages. The method automatically sends the draft response to a sender of the message.

Automatic message pre-processing

Embodiments of the invention provide for obtaining, by a computing device, query data from a query submitted by a user on a social network; determining, by the computing device, a topic of the query by extracting information from the query data; matching, by the computing device, the topic to content stored in a content database; determining, by the computing device, that the content can be shared with the user based on relationship data dynamically derived from user activity within the social network; and initiating, by the computing device, sharing of the content with the user based on the determining that the content can be shared, wherein the user is not statically connected to the content or the author of the content in the social network.

Managing content sharing in a social network

Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for controlling energy generation by an airflow originating from a moving elevator cabin. Wing pressure pads are positioned outside the elevator cabin extending to walls of the elevator shaft for preventing an airflow in the elevator shaft from above the elevator cabin to an area in the shaft below the elevator cabin. The elevator shaft is pressure-tight, and the elevator shaft has, at one end of the elevator shaft, an air conduit in which a first power generator stage having a propeller-driven electrical power generator is positioned. The method further intercepts a floor selection for the cabin and disables the power generators if a floor difference from a current position of the elevator cabin to a target position of the elevator cabin is below a predefined threshold value.

Generating energy using airflow from a moving elevator cabin

A method, system, and computer program product for modifying and improving a network search is provided. The method includes receiving a search string associated with a search request of a user. The search string is transmitted to a search system. In response, initial search results associated with the search string are received and analyzed with respect to previous interactions and user preferences. Modified search results are generated from the initial search results and filter software is executed with respect to the modified search results. Digital tags are applied to portions of the modified search results and the modified search results are presented with respect to instructions associated with the digital tags.

Network search modification

A method for cause analysis of a configuration exception occurred during the execution of a computer program on a programmable computer. The method includes executing the program on the computer. Exception information associated with the configuration exception may be extracted. The method may use context information and circumstances under which the configuration exception occurred. The method may also use data indicative of experiences of other developers that had a similar exception. A set of possible causes may be looked up from a knowledge base; wherein looking up the set of possible causes is based on context information related to the computer program.

Exception cause analysis during computer program execution

Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for processing an electronic document. The method may include retrieving an electronic document during a computing session maintained for a user of a computer system. The method may also include determining context information related to the computing session. The method may also include selecting at least one annotator from a set of annotators based on the context information, the at least one annotator comprising data describing a set of rules for annotating content of the electronic document. The method may also include associate the selected annotator with the electronic document, wherein the associating is specific to the user.

Electronic document processing system

A computing system comprises a plurality of computing machines, each computing machine storing security information corresponding with the respective computing machine. Embodiments are directed to receiving an update request by a current computing machine for updating corresponding security information, updating the corresponding security information, determining other computing machines coupled with the current computing machine, and submitting, by the current computing machine, a further update request to each other computing machine that is coupled with the current computing machine.

Updating security information on multiple computing machines

A method and system for improving automated software execution is provided. The method includes receiving in real time from a video retrieval device, visual data associated with a user of a hardware device. The user is identified with respect to the visual data. Internal software applications and hardware structures are scanned in real time and relationships between a group of Web based software applications and a group of internal software applications and hardware structures authorized for access by the user are determined. Information associated with network and hardware device access by the user is analyzed actions for execution with respect to access to the group of Web based software applications and internal software applications and hardware structures are determined. In response, the automated actions are executed with respect to access to the group of Web based software applications and internal software applications and hardware structures.

Automated authentication and access

A computer system, computer program product, method for modifying a presentation based on a behavior of a plurality of participants includes monitoring at least part of the plurality of participants to the presentation by sensing a behavior information relating to a behavior of the plurality of participants during the presentation, interpreting the behavior information to determine one or more behavior indicators of the behavior of the plurality of participants, determining an interest indicator of an interest of the plurality of participants during the presentation, according to the behavior indicators, determining a suggestion for conducting the presentation according to the interest indicator, and outputting an indication of the suggestion to a presenter of the presentation for use by the presenter to conduct the presentation.

Real-time modification of presentations based on behavior of participants thereto

A method for creating a software image of a software application. During an installation of the software application on a computing machine, one or more changes of the computing machine occurring during the installation of the software application are detected. The one or more changes include one or more artifacts being added to the computing machine and one or more updates being applied to the computing machine. The software image is created by copying the one or more artifacts from the computing machine to a virtual disk and by adding activation procedures and activation information obtained from the activation procedures to the virtual disk. The activation procedures and activation information were determined according to the updates. The activation procedures are configured to apply the updates when running the activation procedures according to the activation information.

Creation of software images of software applications for image-based maintenance of the software applications

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Giuseppe Ciano