International Business Machines Corporation

Sean Thomas Fornash

Clea Anne Zolotow

Anthony M Hunt

John Valentine Delaney

Laxmikantha Sai Nanduru

Maeve O'Reilly

Florian Graf

Ricardo Golcher Ugalde

Claus Schroeder-Hansen

Arvind Viswanathan

Zheng Xie

James S Bennett

Alonso Andres Villalobos Laurent

Farid Fuleihan

Christopher Kevin Vissuskus

A method includes receiving, by a computing device, determining, by a computing device, a location of a user device; retrieving, by the computing device, public information from public sources using the location of the user device; providing, by the computing device, the public information to the user device; locating, by the computing device, environment devices within an environment of the user device using the location of the user device; collecting, by the computing device, data from the environment devices; determining, by the computing device, whether obstacles are present in the user environment using the collected data and the public information; and providing, by the computing device, alerts to the user device about the obstacles.

Environment sharing

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: input data from the source environment, including application hosting data of each server in the source environment and one or more cloud type of the source environment. Candidate cloud types for target platform are listed and servers of the source environment are screened for eligibility for the migration. The target platform is selected by applying preconfigured selection rules on the application hosting data of each eligible server in the source environment. Migration recommendations for each eligible server in the source environment, including selected cloud type corresponding to the target platform, are produced.

Cognitive cloud migration optimizer

A set of workloads to be migrated is identified. A constraint on optimization of the set of workloads is determined. A subset of workloads to be migrated is selected from the set of workloads. A model is constructed, using traffic information corresponding to the set of workloads. The model includes a representation of a relationship between a first workload and a second workload in the subset of workloads. The model is solved to cause generation of a set of optimal flow values. A schedule for a migration wave is constructed. The schedule complies with the constraint on optimization of the set of workloads.

Cloud and datacenter migration wave planning using analytics and flow modeling

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining radio signal encoded data from one or more radio signal emitting device disposed on one or more fabric item used for thermal insulation by a user; performing data processing using an obtained environmental temperature of the user and one or more thermal characteristic, wherein the one or more thermal characteristic is determined using the radio signal encoded data; and providing one or more output based on the data processing.

Utilizing radio signal emitting devices on fabric items to control temperature

A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, information identifying a user's activity; determining, by the computing device, the user's tasks based on the information identifying the user's activity; determining, by the computing device, the user's context switches based on the user's tasks; receiving, by the computing device, biometrics data associated with the user via an application programming interface (API); determining, by the computing device, the user's stress levels at various times based on the biometrics data; storing, by the computing device, information linking the user's stress level with the user's context switches; and outputting, by the computing device, the information linking the user's stress level with the user's context switches.

Identifying stress levels associated with context switches

A tactile device for virtual reality simulations includes an outer hollow sphere, a pliable inner hollow sphere, a plurality of actuators, and a framework. The plurality of actuators physically couple the outer hollow sphere to the pliable inner hollow sphere, and are configured to dynamically and physically reshape the pliable inner hollow sphere as the outer hollow sphere and the pliable inner hollow sphere rotate. The framework includes a plurality of powered rollers that support the outer hollow sphere and control a rotational speed and direction of the outer hollow sphere and the pliable inner hollow sphere.

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Sean Thomas Fornash