International Business Machines Corporation

Siddhartha Sood

Michael Bender

Michael P Shute

Gordan G Greenlee

Stan Kevin Daley

Harish Bharti

Evelyn R Anderson

Richard Daniel Gunjal

Shawn D Hennessy

Pooja Malik

Biswajit Mohapatra

Sanket Jain

Abhishek Kumar Gautam

Pijush Kanti Biswas

Dharma Teja Atluri

Mohammad Kafee Uddin

Manoj Kumar Joshi

Ajay Kumar Sharma

Roopa Wilson

Balakrishan Sreenivasan

Satish M Gharat

Suguna Kola

Santanu Ghosh

Hrushikesh Digambar Kulkarni

Snehasish Ghosh

Madhusmita Patil

Subhadip Niyogi

Shweta Vohra

A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include accepting fluid parameter data about a fluid and identifying at least one safety threshold for the fluid. The operations may further include calculating a fluid quality index for the fluid based on the fluid parameter data and analyzing the fluid quality index against the at least one safety threshold to achieve fluid quality testing data. The operations may also include leveraging the fluid quality testing data to control a fluid flow.

Predictive alerting and cutoff of hazardous water flow

Embodiments include a method for controlling a device, a voice-controlled device, and a computer program product. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving a first command from a first user at a device and receiving a second command from a second user at the device, and determining, by a first trained machine learning model, that the second command conflicts with the first command. In response to determining the second command conflicts with the first command, some embodiments may determine, by a second trained machine learning model, a physical world hierarchy between the first user and the second user, determine a response to the second command using the physical world hierarchy. The method may further comprise performing the response. Some embodiments may further comprise identifying, by the second trained machine learning model, a higher ranking user chosen from the group consisting of the first user and the second user.

Resolving conflicting commands using hierarchy

Managing data element caching is provided. Non-functional requirements of a system running an application are mapped to resource utilization and system performance metric values corresponding to each of a plurality of caching parameters for each of data elements corresponding to the application suitable for caching. A caching decision is generated for each of the data elements corresponding to the application suitable for caching by identifying certain ones of the data elements for the caching to improve at least one of performance and throughput of the system based on the mapping. A data element caching decision recommendation is generated for the application based on the caching decision. The data element caching decision recommendation corresponding to the application is output to a client device of a customer via a network.

Determining caching parameter metrics for caching data elements

In an approach for augmenting contextual timeline markers on a virtual video conversation, a processor records a virtual meeting on a virtual meeting platform with one or more participants. Responsive to the virtual meeting chair ending the virtual meeting with one or more incomplete tasks, a processor creates an augmented recording of the virtual meeting, wherein the augmented recording includes a timeline composed of a plurality of timeline markers, wherein a timeline marker is associated with a conversation that occurs at a particular contextual conversation point during the virtual meeting. A processor enables one or more post-meeting collaboration enabled conversations between the virtual meeting chair and one or more nonparticipants, wherein the one or more incomplete tasks are completed. A processor requests feedback on a timeline marker response associated with the one or more incomplete tasks from a timeline marker creator. A processor applies the feedback received.

Augmentation of contextual timeline markers on a virtual video conversation

In an approach for improving the virtual meeting user experience, a processor detects a user disengaging from a virtual meeting having at least two participants for a pre-set period of time or for a pre-set percentage of a total allotted time of a pre-scheduled virtual meeting. A processor retrieves data from a database. A processor prepares a summary that is tailored to a profile of the user and that covers a portion of the virtual meeting during which the user was disengaged. A processor detects the user reconnecting to the virtual meeting. A processor determines whether the user will review the summary before rejoining the virtual meeting. Responsive to determining the user will review the summary before rejoining the virtual meeting, a processor prompts the user with a set of default user preferences to review the summary. A processor outputs the summary to the user.

Augmented intelligence based virtual meeting user experience improvement

A method for Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and security compliance in a cloud computing environment is provided. The method includes maintaining a cloud resource to be in a transient state that keeps the cloud resource from being visible to other cloud resources for a configured rule driven duration during which validations comprising the GRC and security compliance are applied to the cloud resource. The method further includes provisioning the cloud resource responsive to the cloud resource meeting a time-in-transient-state requirement and passing the GRC and security compliance. The maintaining step includes reusing reactive validations for further GRC and security compliance in a resource lifecycle leveraging Application Programming Interface (API) based lifecycle events during the transient state, and deriving a next set of configurable actions for provisioned resources by providing hooks to a provisioning service to get a compliance posture for the cloud resource in the transient state.

Shifting left GRC and security compliance leveraging transient cloud resources

A system including sensors configured to provide physiological markers of a developer and a controller configured provide information indicative of a user experience to the developer while receive signals from the sensors. The controller is configured to utilize cognitive analysis determine developer emotion responses as the developer receives the user experience. The controller compares a developer emotion classification with a user emotion classification of a user as the user generated the user experience. The system generates a prioritized backlog to identify points where emotion responses between user and developer are in common, or where emotion responses between user and developer differ.

Feeling experience correlation

A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains a video from a user, via a client, and segments the video into temporal shots that comprise a timeline of the video. The processor(s) cognitively analyze the video, by applying an image recognition algorithm to identify image entities in each temporal shot of the video and by applying a data structure comprising a user profile of the user to the temporal shots, to identity personal entities in each temporal shot of the video. The program code generates a search index for the video, utilizing the user entities (image entities and personal entities), where each entry of the search index is a given user entity and a linkage to a given temporal shot and the linkage indicates a location of the given user entity in the timeline of the video.

Cognitive video and audio search aggregation

Systems and methods for managing flexible events in an electronic calendar are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a computing device, that an electronic calendar event is a flexible event based on recording data of the electronic calendar event indicating that a recording of the electronic calendar event may be available; determining, by the computing device, an end date by which the electronic calendar event must be completed based on the scheduling data; and displaying, by the computing device, an electronic calendar with the electronic calendar event to a user.

Automatically rescheduling overlapping flexible meeting events in an electronic calendar

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: preparation of a user profile for a user whose stress response is being managed to attain a goal response. A use mode is determined according to objectives for the goal response. An Augmented Reality (AR) environment customized for the user is generated according to a use mode configuration corresponding to the use mode, and delivered to the user via a user AR device. Responses by the user to the AR environment is monitored by IoT devices, cognitively analyzed, and a determination if the goal response has been attained would be made according to the monitored user response.

Cognitive stress management by augmented reality (AR) customization

A method, computer program product, and a system include a processor(s) that monitors an event, as a proxy for an invitee, to assign or periodically update a value (the value shifts temporally during the event). The processor(s) monitors the event by analyzing sentiment and emotion in verbal content, generate a speech baseline for each attendee, i.e., tone neutral vocal communication patterns, determine an aggregate tone for the event, and generating and progressive update, during the monitoring, the value (the value represents deviations in tone from the aggregate tone in portions of the verbal content proximate to an occurrence of one or more keywords relevant to the invitee, based on the aggregate tone and the speech baseline for each of the one or more attendees). The processor(s) determine that the value has exceeded a threshold and trigger an action to facilitate connection of the invitee to the event.

Cognitive meeting proxy

Embodiments of an expense validator extract from an expense receipt object expense event data that includes identification of an expense entity, a geographic location, a time of the expense event, a person authorized to submit a claim for expenses to an expense management system, and another person that is associated to the authorized person as an attendee of the expense event. The embodiments acquire proof-of-location data at a time period inclusive of the expense event time from a first mobile device that is associated with the authorized person; determine from the acquired proof-of-location data indirect proof-of-location data indicative of attendance of the other person at the expense event geographic location during expense event time; and validate a submission of the expense receipt object as a function of the proof-of-location data.

Expense validator

Rescheduling flexible events in an electronic calendar

A method, system, and computer program product for managing a pool of conference lines for telephone conferences. In embodiments of the invention, the method comprises receiving a request for a telephone conference at a given time and for a specified duration; reviewing conference lines in a pool of conference lines to determine if one of the conference lines is available for the telephone conference; when one of the conference lines in the pool is available, allocating the one conference line to the requested telephone conference; issuing one or more unique pass codes for access to the allocated conference line; and distributing the one or more unique pass codes to a group of persons. In embodiments of the invention, the method further comprises if the telephone conference reaches a given time before a specified end time, offering to extend the end time of the telephone conference.

Dynamic conference line allocation from conference line pool

A method and system for automatically verifying a change to a database. An input file including a test query for the database and an expected output from executing the test query is received. The test query is automatically executed on the database. An actual output resulting from executing the test query is retrieved. Based on a comparison between the actual output and the expected output, a match or mismatch between the actual output and the expected output is automatically identified. If a mismatch is identified, a failure indication is stored that indicates that the database change is invalid and that the database change may initiate a defect in an application coupled to the database. In one embodiment, the change to the database is a change in a services engagement. In one embodiment, the test query is automatically generated in the method and system described above.

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