International Business Machines Corporation

Rosario A Uceda-Sosa

Gregory D Laib

Marcos Nogueira Novaes

Kailash N Marthi

Steven R Champagne

John Richard Smith

Jacquelyn Annette Martino

Paul Michael Matchen

Michele Merler

Hui Wu

Achille Belly Fokoue-Nkoutche

Jae-Eun Park

Jeffrey S Lucash

Maria Chang

Kenneth C Briskey

Alexander Gray

Guilherme Augusto Ferreira Lima

Marcelo Machado

Anton A Prenneis, Jr

Provided are techniques for a search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs. A plurality of overlay graphs are generated, where each overlay graph comprises entities represented by nodes and relations represented by edges, and where the entities and the relations map to a subset of entities and relations in a plurality of source knowledge graphs. A search request comprising an entity and a relation is received. An overlay graph is selected from the plurality of overlay graphs based on the entity and the relation. The search request is issued against the overlay graph, where the search request is translated to knowledge graph specific queries, and where the knowledge graph specific queries are issued against the plurality of source knowledge graphs. Search results are received from the plurality of source knowledge graphs. The search results are used to respond to the search request.

Search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs

A method and system are provided. The method includes deriving a set of user attributes from an aggregate analysis of images and videos of a user. The deriving step includes recognizing, by a set of visual classifiers, semantic concepts in the images and videos of the user to generate visual classifier scores. The deriving step further includes deriving, by a statistical aggregator, the set of user attributes. The set of user attributes are derived by mapping the visual classifier scores to a taxonomy of semantic categories to be recognized in visual content. The deriving step also includes displaying, by an interactive user interface having a display, attribute profiles for the attributes and comparisons of the attribute profiles.

Individual and user group attributes discovery and comparison from social media visual content

A method includes utilizing two or more classifiers to calculate, for an input image, probability scores for a plurality of classes based on visual information extracted from the input image and semantic relationships in a classification hierarchy, wherein each of the two or more classifiers is associated with a given one of two or more levels in the classification hierarchy with each level in the classification hierarchy comprising a subset of the plurality of classes, and classifying the input image based on the calculated probability scores.

Image classification utilizing semantic relationships in a classification hierarchy

Smart Mark-up or highlighting delimits a rule using ontology technology to identify words and fields as objects and/or possible values in the rule. These technologies support the user in formalizing parts of the rules in a manner consistent with the system's data.

Method and system for smart mark-up of natural language business rules

The system and method in one aspect provide a set of extended Boolean operators and a tree visual paradigm that enable business users to modularize the construction of a rule and visualize it as the rules is being built.

Modular authoring and visualization of rules using trees

The system and method in one aspect allow understanding of Boolean expressions by representing them graphically as a flow of information. NOTs are represented as switches in the flow, capturing the original structure of the expression as written by the user. Verification of those expressions with live data is also enabled.

Intuitive visualization of Boolean expressions using flows

Concurrent access to a global data repository is provided, while minimizing the number of locks acquired to provide the concurrent access. One or more resources within the global data repository have predefined relationships with one or more other resources of the repository. Thus, locking for a particular resource is based on its relationship with one or more other resources of the repository.

System and program products for efficiently locking resources of a global data repository

A method (and structure) for using reasoning heuristics in a network-based information system based on an entity/relation paradigm and characterized as being a self-similar hypergraph. The method includes packaging domain-independent reasoning heuristics so that they can be attached to data in a self-similar-hypergraph information system, thereby allowing self-describing knowledge capsules to be created from the data.

Method and structure for domain-independent modular reasoning and relation representation for entity-relation based information structures

A structure and method are provided which can model and use information in a systematic, domain-independent manner, which can flexibly represent declarative data such as concepts, instances, relations and contexts and data views, and which may serve as a middleware module for user applications. The invention teaches a syntax and functionality of a set of software objects that represent, store and dynamically retrieve information on behalf of user applications.

Method and structure for unstructured domain-independent object-oriented information middleware

Method for efficiently locking resources of a global data repository

The management and use of replicated distributed transactions is facilitated. A distributed synchronous transaction system protocol is provided to manage the replication of distributed transactions for client application instances. The distributed synchronous transaction system allows transactions to be replicated without having the client application instances be aware of other instances to receive the transaction. Further, if a failure occurs during processing of a distributed replicated transaction, the distributed synchronous transaction system manages the recovery of the failure.

Method, system and program products for managing processing groups of a distributed computing environment

A client application sends a request to a given server of a replicated group of servers, and expects a response to the request. If the client does not receive a response to the request, or if the server is otherwise unavailable, the client is automatically reconnected to another server of the replicated group. The servers of the replicated group do not, however, have to have any knowledge of the communication session of the client.

Method, system and program products for automatically connecting a client to a server of a replicated group of servers

Threads of a multithreaded client application access data in one or more global data repositories via one or more local trees. Each local tree is associated with one or more locked resources of the global data repository. By using the local trees in accessing the data of the global repository, a thread is automatically associated with a lock block and therefore, the granting of locks is independent of any threading models.

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