International Business Machines Corporation

Ock Kee Baek

Pradeep Madaiah

Tao Liu

Ajay Mohindra

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Francisco Phelan Curbera

Shubir Kapoor

Shilpa N Mahatma

Shahram Ebadollahi

Houtan Aghili

Gigi Yuen-Reed

Arti Abhay Kale

Carl Stephen Ewig

Karthik Vijaykumar

Seema Prasanth Kumar

A method and system for performing data processing. A request for agent software is acquired by an agent computer system from a user computer system and in response, the agent computer system retrieves the agent software from a repository of agents and migrates the retrieved agent software to the user computer system. The agent computer system acquires an itinerary and N sets of run time instructions from the user computer system. N is at least 2. The itinerary specifies a path along which the agent software is to migrate to perform a portion of the data processing on N computer systems using the N sets of run time instructions. The agent computer system provides the received itinerary and the N sets of run time instructions to the agent software at the user computer system.

Mobile itinerant software agent carrying itinerary and data within

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

A method and data processing system for using agent software to perform data processing on multiple computer systems. The agent software is sequentially migrated from a user computer system to each system of N computer systems, after which the agent software is returned to the user computer system with a final result that includes output results obtained from execution of run time instructions in the agent software on each computer system of the N computer systems. N is at least 1.

A method and system for managing semantic and syntactic metadata. Heterogeneous data is received. After the heterogeneous data is received, the semantic metadata associated with the received heterogeneous data is captured and syntactic metadata associated with the received heterogeneous data is captured. The semantic metadata describes contextually relevant or domain-specific information about data based on an industry-specific or enterprise-specific metadata model or ontology. The syntactic metadata included grammatical rules and structural patterns governing an ordered use of formats and arrangement pertaining to specified data. The received heterogeneous data and said captured semantic metadata and said syntactic metadata are logically linked. The heterogeneous data is stored in a repository.

Method and system for managing semantic and syntactic metadata

There is disclosed a software engineering system and method for engineering software components. In an embodiment, the method comprises providing the software component with an input interface, an output interface, and a control interface, the control interface being configurable to receive external conditions or parameters that are specific to an environment or to a domain; and providing one or more externally modifiable adapters, the one or more externally modifiable adapters having environment-specific or domain-specific data, and being configurable to be dynamically bound to the software component in dependence upon external conditions or parameters that are specific to an environment or to a domain in which the software component is to be executed.

Software engineering system and method for self-adaptive dynamic software components

An event management system that plays a central role in handling varying loads of metadata events from each of a large number of touch-points or data servers that come into a Data Centric computing environment. As a matter of distinction when compared to conventional method-centric computing environments, there is broadly contemplated herein the concept not of physically installing a software agent on a designated system as stationary entity, but of launching it in a distributed computing environment and permitting it to 'roam' around the numerous data servers to ensure consistency, accuracy and currency between the data entities managed by multiple data servers and the metadata servers in a data-centric computing environment.

Method, system and article for mobile metadata software agent in a data-centric computing environment

A system, method and program product for managing data for researchers. A research data server receives and manages experimental data and research data and results from the researchers, and operates with a virtual storage device to maintain the experimental data and research data and results. A reference data access server receives and manages external reference data relating to the research and operating with the virtual storage device to maintain the external reference data. Computational resources allow researchers to capture, process and analyze experimental data to obtain results. A research data network connects the virtual storage device, research data server, reference data access server and the computational resources to allow transfer of data there between. Security management services authenticate and authorize access by the researchers to the system.

System, method and program product for management of life sciences data and related research

A method for managing semantic and syntactic metadata. The method begins with receiving heterogeneous data from either a machine or a human. Next, the method captures the semantic metadata corresponding to the received heterogeneous data by means of a semantic template. Next, the method captures the syntactic metadata corresponding to the received heterogeneous data by means of a syntactic template. After capturing the semantic and syntactic metadata, the method logically links the received heterogeneous data with the captured semantic and syntactic metadata. Finally, the method stores the received heterogeneous data in a repository.

System and method for managing semantic and syntactic metadata

A distributed computing system provides a data management system in communication with a software management system and enables the software applications to move to the data to be processed in a distributed computing environment. The software management system stores a plurality of computer-executable software applications thereon and is in communication with a user system for receiving a selection of one of the plurality of software applications. The software management system generates an identifier for the selected software application which is provided to the data management system, which then obtains the selected software application from the software management system based on the identifier. The obtained software application is then executed with data from a data storage system using resources from a resource system. The resource system includes a plurality of resources and a manage mechanism for managing assignment of the plurality of resources to support execution of the software application.

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