International Business Machines Corporation

John Joseph Edward Turek

John Arthur Pershing, Jr

Tushar Deepak Chandra

Larry Bert Brenner

Marc Adam Kaplan

Peter Richard Badovinatz

Orvalle Theodore Kirby

Ajei Sarat Gopal

Marion Lee Blount

Dennis Duane Jurgensen

Menachem Shtalhaim

Andrew Quoc Anh Nguyen

Vittorio R Castelli

Chung-Sheng Li

Liana Liyow Fong

Vijay Krishnarao Naik

Sebastian Daniel Hassinger

William Francis Jerome

Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar

Sameh Afif Fakhouri

William Meyer Smith

Steven Cameron Blair

Sharmila Thadhani Hutchins

Program product for an application programming interface that unifies a plurality of mechanisms into a single framework. The interface includes a mechanism for communicating between members of a process group of related processes, and a mechanism for synchronizing the related processes of the process group. Additionally, the application programming interface may include mechanisms for managing membership of the process group or a processor group of processors, and/or a mechanism for controlling a group state value for the process group.

Program product for an application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

The number of instances of an application running in a computing environment are controlled by monitoring the current load on the application, and altering the current number of instances of the application based on results of the monitoring. The load may be monitored by monitoring the current number of instances of the application running in the computing environment. Where a maximum, minimum and/or initial number on startup, of instances of the application are specified, the altering is done based on comparing the current number to one or more of the specified numbers of instances.

Controlling a number of instances of an application running in a computing environment

A method and apparatus for identifying problems associated with a web site. A scan of a web site is initiated by a plurality of agents, wherein each of the plurality of agents are at a different location in the distributed data processing system. Results of the scan are obtained from the plurality of agents. The results of the scan are analyzed to determine if a problem is associated with the web site.

Method and apparatus for scanning a web site in a distributed data processing system for problem determination

A scanning tool executing on a host computer may be used to scan a server only if the server (or a proxy) first exposes to the host a certificate that, upon processing by the host, indicates that the server may be scanned. The certificate preferably encrypts a scan permission and is made available from a given port on the server (or the proxy). Whenever the host desires to perform a scan of the server, the host searches the port for the certificate. The certificate is then decrypted to determine whether the scan permission exists. If so, the scan then proceeds, in accordance with any conditions set forth in the decrypted scan permission.

Permission-based scanning of a web site

An unreliable training set is modified to provide for a reliable training set to be used in supervised classification. The training set is modified by determining which data of the set are incorrect and reconstructing those incorrect data. The reconstruction includes modifying the labels associated with the data to provide for correct labels. The modification can be performed iteratively.

Modifying an unreliable training set for supervised classification

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