International Business Machines Corporation

Jean-Yves B Rigolet

Thomas Baudel

Nicolas Changhai Ke

Pierre-Andre Paumelle

Remi Lejeune

Managing a cloud computing environment including a plurality of resources adapted to host at least one virtual machine includes, in a virtual machine, determining a period of inactivity of the operating system for a user of the virtual machine and comparing, using a processor, the period with a defined threshold. From the virtual machine, a virtual machine termination request is sent to the cloud computing environment responsive to the period exceeding the defined threshold.

Automatic virtual machine termination in a cloud

Removing high level logic structure from a source program. Two or more source program fields are characterized by their respective value characteristics. A first field is mapped, with respect to the source program, to a second field having similar value characteristics as the first field. A target program is then created by replacing, in the source program, the first field with the second field and replacing each first field value with a corresponding second field value thereby preserving the value characteristics of the source program.

Sharing and executing sensitive logic semantics

Obfuscating denotational logic in a source program. A non-rule-based object oriented source program is received. The source program is transformed into a rule-based source program that includes an object model and a ruleset. Attribute domains of the rule-based source program are characterized by a structure of their values in which the structure of the values is nominal, ordered, interval, or ratio. A minimum cardinality is calculated for each domain attribute. First domain attributes are randomly mapped to second domain attributes, each second domain attribute having the same value structure and a same or higher cardinality as the corresponding first domain attribute. For each randomly mapped pair a domain range of the first domain attribute is mapped to a domain range of the second domain attribute. In the rule-based source program first domain input fields and values are replaced with the respective second domain input fields and values.

A method, computer program and system for generating code of the vocal interface of a software application by reading the persistent data of an application designed by a data meta model using a design language such as UML (Unified Modeling Language) defining a hierarchical organization of classes, their attributes and the relations between classes. Similarly to the wizard for graphical user interface the vocal interface code comprises dialog unit code, which is Forms when VoiceXML language is used, to allow at execution time, entry of data for the application in a guided way.

Generating vocal user interface code from a data meta-model

A method, computer program product and system for generating an editor to be executed through a graphical user interface of a computer, for editing the persistent data of an application, the persistent data being described and stored in a data object model using a modeling language defining a hierarchical organization of classes, their attributes and the relations between classes, comprising retrieving the root class and starting from the root class, creating a page per class for creating the instances of the class. Each page of a current class comprises an Edit section for editing the attributes of the class, a Table section which lists all the instances of the class when they will be created and a hyperlink section for listing pointers to other pages corresponding to the target classes in relation with the current class.

Generating application data editors

An apparatus and method for optimally displaying multiple windows on a display is provided. The multiple windows can be sequentially or simultaneously resized and/or repositioned. The method performs at least one of resizing or repositioning operation on at least one of the multiple windows to fit within the available display area. The method provides the user the ability to see a maximum of information from multiple windows and allows access to the scroll bars, title bars, status bars and command window of the multiple windows.

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Noisy Le Grand, France

Jean-Yves B Rigolet