International Business Machines Corporation

Joe Naoum-Sawaya

Randall Lee Cogill

Robert Shorten

Sergiy Zhuk

Tigran Tchrakian

Martin M Rufli

Rudi Verago

Zubair Nabi

Chungmok Lee

Fabian Wirth

Akihiro Kishimoto

Freddy Lecue

Aliza Rivka Heching

Bradley Eck

Elaine M Branagh

Bissan Ghaddar

Pitipong J Lin

Yin Long

Surya S K Sajja

Nicole L Lechelt

An aspect of providing job assignment optimization includes creating a feature vector from features extracted from a new job request. Each of the features is associated with a constraint on minimum requirements with respect to a level of experience of a potential candidate. An aspect further includes creating a feature vector for each employee that includes skills attributed to the employee and instances that each of the skills have been completed, searching feature vectors generated from the employee database for the minimum requirements indicated in the new job request feature vector, searching the feature vectors of the database for the minimum requirements indicated by constraints associated with the new job request, modeling aggregate utility of past experience of employees as a weighted sum of applied utility functions, and generating a score indicating a difference between a potential post assignment and a pre-assignment utility. An aspect also includes outputting qualified candidates.

Job assignment optimization

Charging of a mobile device in an ad hoc parked vehicle charging system. A plurality of mobile device users and associated mobile devices are registered in an ad hoc parked vehicle charging system with a charging profile. A plurality of charging vehicles are also registered in the system with a charge supply profile. A mobile device user and associated mobile device are authenticated as a registered user in the system. A plurality of the registered charging vehicles parked within a preset distance range of the authenticated user and associated mobile device are located and one of the parked registered charging vehicles is selected based on an energy allocation criteria. A charging connection is established between the authenticated mobile device and the selected parked vehicle and charging of the mobile device is automatically controlled according to the user's charging profile, the vehicle's charge supply profile and the energy allocation criteria.

System for charging mobile device using an ad-hoc infrastructure with energy harvesting capabilities

Embodiments for driver confidence evaluation while operating a vehicle by a processor. Driver confidence, based upon one or more psychophysical parameters of a driver, is combined and correlated with a plurality of environmental factors and route information. A confidence in vehicular operational capabilities of the driver may be detected according to the correlation.

Detecting and explaining driver confidence

An apparatus, method and computer program product for scheduling on/off control of equipment. The method implements an iterative approach that uses one objective and sets a tolerance value on the other objectives. Initially, the method computes the value of the different objective functions given a current feasible solution. The different objective functions are iteratively evaluated with respect to the current solution and a margin is set for every objective at each iteration. The margin is a deviation measure indicating the acceptable range by which each objective can be worsened. The method iteratively optimizes each objective function with respect to one of the objectives, following an order, while enforcing a maximum deviation on the other objective functions by setting them as constraints. The allowable deviation margin is then decreased for all the objective functions. A final output schedule is provided from which signals may be generated to automatically turn on/off the equipment.

Multi-objective scheduling for on/off equipment

A system and method for charging of a mobile device in an ad hoc parked vehicle charging system. A plurality of mobile device users and charging vehicles are registered in the ad hoc parked vehicle charging system. The current charge of an authenticated mobile device user is monitoring and the user is automatically alerted the authenticated user that the current charge is below a threshold set in the user's charging profile. The method includes locating registered charging vehicles parked within a preset distance range of the authenticated user and sending the parked location information to the user, automatically enabling a wireless charging connection between the authenticated user's mobile device and a parked registered charging vehicle selected by the user and automatically controlling charging the authenticated user's mobile device according to the authenticated user's charging profile and the parked registered charging vehicle's charge supply profile.

A system and method for charging of a mobile device in an ad hoc charging system. A plurality of mobile device users are registered in the ad hoc charging system, each with a charging profile. A plurality of charging stations are registered in the ad hoc charging system, each with a charge supply profile. A mobile device user is authenticated as an ad hoc charging system registered user with one of the plurality of registered charging stations, thereby enabling a charging connection between the authenticated user and the one registered charging station. The charging of the authenticated user's mobile device is controlled according to the authenticated user's charging profile and the one registered charging station's charge supply profile. Energy monitoring, movement tracking, energy prediction, user notification and energy allocation features are also included.

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