International Business Machines Corporation

Xerox Corporation

Conduent Business Services, LLC

Alcatel Lucent

Partha Dutta

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Malolan Chetlur

Vijay Arya

Abhishek Tripathi

Manoj Gupta

Koustuv Dasgupta

Umamaheswari C Devi

Tridib Mukherjee

Ramana V Polavarapu

Kunal Korgaonkar

Anand Seetharam

Arpita Biswas

Alefiya Lightwala

Dinesh C Verma

Sudhendu Rai

Ravindranath Kokku

Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye

Vijay Mann

Rajeev Ramnarain Rastogi

Arun Vishwanath

Shruti Kunde

Nischal Murthy Piratla

Koyel Mukherjee

Sharad Jaiswal

Avinash Sharma

Prince Gerald Albert

Jagadeesh Chandra Bose Rantham Prabhakara

Gurulingesh Raravi

Asmita Metrewar

Vivek Harikrishnan Ramalingam

Raja Subramaniam Thangaraj

Akanksha Gupta

Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan

Seshadri Thirumalai Echampadi

Skanda Vasudevan

Mayank Mishra

The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for managing parking violations by vehicles in parking areas in real-time. The method includes receiving parking information from one or more sensors installed at each of one or more parking spots in a plurality of parking areas at a specific time. The method includes detecting a parking violation by a vehicle at a parking spot of the one or more parking spots in a parking area. The method includes identifying one or more vehicle identification parameters of the vehicle associated with the detected parking violation. The method includes determining a penalty for the vehicle with the identified one or more vehicle identification parameters. The method includes transmitting the determined penalty to a user-computing device of a user associated with the vehicle with the identified one or more vehicle identification parameters, wherein the user is imposed with the penalty.

Method and system for managing parking violations by vehicles in parking areas in real-time

According to embodiments illustrated herein, a method and a system is provided for screening candidates for job opportunities. The method includes grouping the candidates into batches based on predetermined time duration, a count of the candidates, and a chronology of receiving job applications from the candidates. Each batch comprises a first set of candidates. Thereafter, a sliding window is moved over the batches, to encompass a set of batches at a first time instance. A second set of candidates is identified from the first set of candidates in a batch from the set of batches based on a score assigned to each of the first set of candidates during an interview. Further, a candidate is selected from the second set of candidates obtained from a first batch, encompassed by the sliding window at a second time instance before the first time instance.

Method and system for managing one or more human resource functions in an organization

A method and a system are provided for identifying one or more locations for placement of one or more replenishment stations for one or more vehicles. The method comprises receiving a historical demand data at a plurality of existing replenishment stations within a pre-defined area. The method identifies one or more point of interest locations within the pre-defined area based on a map data. Further, the method receives traffic information between a plurality of road intersections within the pre-defined area. Based on an aggregation of a first demand prediction, a second demand prediction, and a third demand prediction, the method predicts a replenishment demand at a plurality of locations. The method further identifies the one or more locations from the plurality of locations for placement of the one or more replenishment stations based on the predicted replenishment demand at the plurality of locations and a pre-defined threshold.

Method and system for identifying locations for placement of replenishment stations for vehicles

According to embodiments illustrated herein there is provided a method for transportation service recommendation. The method includes determining, one or more routes between a first location and a second location. The method further includes identifying one or more transportation services between each pair of adjacent intermediate nodes of a plurality of intermediate nodes, of the one or more routes. A pre-initiated pooled transportation service for at least a first pair of adjacent intermediate nodes, and a public transportation for at least a second pair of adjacent intermediate nodes are identified. The method further includes determining a likelihood to find one or more other users on a route at least between the first pair of adjacent intermediate nodes, if a user initiates a new-pooled transportation service in an event of unavailability of the pre-initiated pooled transportation service. Additionally, the method includes transmits one or more transportation service recommendations to the user.

Methods and systems for transportation service recommendation

A method of generating a cell design of print production devices for a print production environment includes receiving a print job list, and identifying a plurality of print production devices located in the production environment. The system identifies a list of functions associated with the print jobs, and generates a graph. The system determines a threshold value, and partitions the graph into a number of groups equal to the threshold value such that a number of edges extending between groups is minimized. The system generates an initial cell design for the print production environment, and causes a hardware setting of each of the plurality of production devices to be updated to reflect the cell to which the production device was assigned and to enable the production device to perform one or more functions associated with the cell to which the production device was assigned.

Methods and systems for cell design in a production environment

Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing network utility of applications on cloud data centers. A method includes computing a network utility value for each of multiple applications in a data center network, determining a virtual machine placement and an application flow routing within the data center network for each of the multiple applications which have a computed network utility value below a pre-determined network utility threshold, and based on said determining, re-routing one or more of the multiple application flow routings and performing a virtual machine migration of one or more virtual machines associated with at least one of the multiple applications which have a computed network utility value below a pre-determined network utility threshold.

Managing network utility of applications on cloud data centers

Embodiments of a method are disclosed for computing trust index among multiple entities associated with a resource marketplace. The method includes receiving multiple inputs including interaction attributes, attribute importance factors, references to databases, and multiple entities associated with the resource marketplace. The method also includes creating a weighted-interaction graph based on the received inputs. The weighted-interaction graph includes multiple vertices representing the entities. The method further includes performing a topology-specific analysis of the weighted-interaction graph. The method furthermore includes computing Euclidean distances for each pair of vertices in the weighted-interaction graph based on the performed analysis. The method also includes determining a trust index for a first entity in the received multiple entities based on the computed Euclidean distances. The trust index includes ranking of at least one of the multiple entities with respect to the first entity. The ranking is inversely proportional to the computed Euclidean distances.

Methods and apparatuses for trust computation

Disclosed are the methods for scheduling a task including at least one sub-task, on one or more computing devices in a distributed computing environment. A set of computing devices are identified from the one or more computing devices, based on an availability of a set of computational resources on the set of computing devices. Each computing device in the set of computing devices is ranked based on at least one of a monetary cost or a network cost, associated with the execution of the at least one sub-task on the each computing device. The at least one sub-task is allocated to at least one computing device from the set of computing devices for execution based on at least one of the ranking or an acceptable success probability associated with the execution of the at least one sub-task.

Methods and systems for scheduling a task

Systems and methods for managed service delivery at the edge in 4G wireless networks for: dynamic QoS (Quality of Service) provisioning and prioritization of sessions based on the task (current, future) of the workflow instance; predicting the current and future network requirements based on the current and future tasks of all business process sessions and prepare session QoS accordingly; providing an audit trail of business process execution; and reporting on business process execution.

Systems and methods for managed service delivery in 4G wireless networks

Methods and systems for determining one or more routes in a navigation system. A request comprising a first set of parameters corresponding to a trip is received. The first set of parameters comprise at least one an originating node for the trip, a destination node for the trip, a start time for the trip, or a set of preferences associated with the trip. The one or more routes between the originating node and the destination node are determined based on the first set of parameters. Each of the one or more routes comprises at least one public transportation sub-trip traversed by a public vehicle and a private transportation sub-trip traversed by a private vehicle. The one or more routes are ranked based on a trip score associated with the one or more routes. The trip score is determined based on the set of preferences.

Methods and systems for determining routes in a navigation system

An apparatus and an article of manufacture for determining consistent wind power output include obtaining forecasted wind power production, actual wind power production from a wind power producer, a variable price of power measurement, a power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and a penalty measurement for wind power change of rate, and analyzing the forecasted wind power production, the variable price of power measurement, the power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and the penalty measurement for wind power change of rate to determine a consistent rate at which wind power is to be exported from the wind power producer to a grid.

Smoothing power output from a wind farm

A method for determining consistent wind power output includes obtaining forecasted wind power production, actual wind power production from a wind power producer, a variable price of power measurement, a power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and a penalty measurement for wind power change of rate, and analyzing the forecasted wind power production, the variable price of power measurement, the power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and the penalty measurement for wind power change of rate to determine a consistent rate at which wind power is to be exported from the wind power producer to a grid.

Embodiments of a method are disclosed for transmitting one or more videos provided by one or more video cameras disposed at a mobile object traveling along a pre-defined route. The method includes receiving the videos, bandwidth map data for multiple communication channels, travel time data for the mobile object, and service level agreement (SLA) parameters. The received video is transformed into multiple video layers. For each video layer, a transmission cost over the multiple communication channels is computed based on the bandwidth map data, the travel time data and the SLA parameters. Out of the multiple communication channels, a particular communication channel is selected for each video layer, which has the minimum transmission cost over the selected communication channel. The video layers are scheduled for transmission over the respective selected communication channels. The scheduled video layers are transmitted with respect to at least one of the SLA parameters.

Layered video transmission over communication channels

A method, program product and system for dynamically offering upgraded services in a network. The method comprising the steps of: selecting users for a possible offer of an upgrade to services within the network, based on user activity at user devices accessing the network; obtaining network context data information regarding the user activity and the network; sequentially ordering the selected users based on a likelihood that the users will purchase the upgrade to services; determining the upgrade to services to be offered based on a service prediction availability within the network; and offering the upgrade to services to the selected users for a specific time period.

Dynamic service class upgrades in data networks

Methods and arrangements for optimizing streaming of a group of videos. Throughput of video streams through a common link to at least two different destinations is permitted. An effective flow rate for each video stream is ascertained, and a playout lead for each video stream is estimated. The playout leads are equalized via dynamically changing the effective flow rates of the video streams.

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