Abstract: An agent automation system implements a virtual agent that is capable of learning new words, or new meanings for known words, based on exchanges between the virtual agent and a user in order to customize the vocabulary of the virtual agent to the needs of the user or users. The agent automation framework has access to a corpus of previous exchanges between the virtual agent and the user, such as one or more chat logs. New words and/or new meanings for known words are identified within the corpus and new word vectors are generated for these new words and/or new meanings for known words and added to refine a word vector distribution model. The refined word vector distribution model is then utilized by the agent automation system to interact with the user.

Abstract: Present embodiment include a prosody subsystem of a natural language understanding (NLU) framework that is designed to analyze collections of written messages for various prosodic cues to break down the collection into a suitable level of granularity (e.g., into episodes, sessions, segments, utterances, and/or intent segments) for consumption by other components of the NLU framework, enabling operation of the NLU framework. These prosodic cues may include, for example, source prosodic cues that are based on the author and the conversation channel associated with each message, temporal prosodic cues that are based on a respective time associated with each message, and/or written prosodic cues that are based on the content of each message. For example, to improve the domain specificity of the agent automation system, intent segments extracted by the prosody subsystem may be consumed by a training process for a ML-based structure subsystem of the NLU framework.

Abstract: An agent automation system includes a memory configured to store a reasoning agent/behavior engine (RA/BE) including a first persona and a current context and a processor configured to execute instructions of the RA/BE to cause the first persona to perform actions comprising: receiving intents/entities of a first user utterance; recognizing a context overlay cue in the intents/entities of the first user utterance, wherein the context overlay cue defines a time period; updating the current context of the RA/BE by overlaying context information from at least one stored episode associated with the time period; and performing at least one action based on the intents/entities of the first user utterance and the current context of the RA/BE.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program usable program code for managing a number of application integration components. A first command is issued to a first application group. The first application group includes a first subset of application integration components selected from a number of application integration components. The first command causes at least one application integration component in the first subset of application integration components to be adjusted based on a first policy. Responsive to issuing the first command, and based on a second policy, a second command is issued to a second application group. The second application group includes a second subset of application integration components selected from the number of application integration components. The second command causes at least one application integration component in the second subset of application integration components to be adjusted based on the second policy.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for updating multiple concurrent versions of shared artifact libraries. Shared artifact libraries are associated with a consuming application for establishing shared artifact libraries upon which the consuming application has a dependency for artifacts. A snapshot of the shared artifact libraries associated with the consuming application in an active session is created in response to starting a session. The shared artifact libraries are updated in response to new versions and updates of the shared artifact libraries becoming available. Artifacts are dispensed from the shared artifact libraries to the consuming application based on the snapshot of the session.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for synchronizing change histories in enterprise applications. An access module accesses a source data object container provided by a source EIS and a destination data object container provided by a destination EIS. The source data object container comprises a source change history, and the destination data object container comprises a destination change history. A transformation module may retrieve a transformation definition from an integration server, or the transformation definition may be provided in some other fashion. An interpretation module interprets the transformation definition to determine the relationships between the source data object container and the destination data object container. A copy module may copy select portions of the source change history to the destination change history.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically maintaining identity relationships among disparate enterprise information systems. The apparatus comprises a synchronization hub comprising an identity relationship repository, a relationship service module, a consistency module, and an adjustment module. The relationship service is configured to access a target relationship entry using a unique key from a source business object, wherein the source business object is representative of changes made in a source enterprise information system. The various components and modules of the synchronization hub cooperate to determine identity relationships that need updating and to propagate identity relationship changes to one or more destination enterprise information servers.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, an apparatus and computer instruction are provided for deployment of roles. Aspects of the present invention allow user to define in a schema a definition of a relationship that comprises a set of roles participating in the relationship. Each role in the set of roles is defined as an inlined role or an independent role. After the schema is processed, aspects of the present invention determine if the role in the set of roles is an inlined role or an independent role based on the definition of the relationship, deploy the relationship and the role as a single entity if the role is an inlined role, and deploy the relationship and the role as separate entities if the role is an independent role.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program code for integrating components with different interfaces in an enterprise application integration environment. When an enterprise application is assembled, a user may try to wire a component to another component in the enterprise. However, if the reference on the source component does not match the interface on the target component, the components cannot be wired together. In this situation, the user is prompted to introduce an interface mediation component between the source and target application components. The mediation component comprises an interface matching the reference on the source component and a reference matching the interface on the target component. The mediation component mediates the different interfaces at runtime by binding an operation in the source component to an operation in the target component, and performing a parameter mediation of parameters in the first operation to parameters in the second operation.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating dynamic modification of existing software objects defined in a strongly-typed programming language. The apparatus includes an invocation framework, an embedder, a reference component, and a development reference component. The invocation framework is configured to pass a loosely-typed base object between a source component and a destination component. The embedder embeds a business object within the base object. The business object is defined at least in part by a type definition having a set of attributes and a name value uniquely associating the type definition to the business object. The reference component references the base object such that typing requirements of the business object are not explicitly enforced in a runtime environment. The development reference component references the type definition within a development environment such that typing for the business object is fixed during source code development and deployment.

Abstract: A business integration (BI) system receives business objects from a source application at an event partitioner. Event partitioner partitions received business objects into independent sets based on interdependent events, and allocates each independent group of business events to a separate event queue based a partitioning modulo reduction transformation of the independent sets to determine the correct event queue for storing a particular received business object. This transformation reduces the number of independent sets to a number of event groups equal to the number of allocated event queues. Events in different groups are delivered to an interchange server through the separate event queues so that they may be processed independently and in parallel, thus improving the overall performance of the interchange server, while guaranteeing that dependent events are processed in the correct serial order.