Abstract: A computer-implemented method for a list display with redundant text removal, the method including firstly displaying within a display area on a computer display at least a portion of a first item of a group of consecutive list items that share either of a common prefix and a common suffix, and a secondly displaying in a next list item display location of the display area an abbreviation indicator contiguous with a portion of a next item in the group, where the portion is at least partially unique to the next item with respect to positionally-corresponding portions of the other items in the group.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for detection of authors across different types of information sources such as across documents on the Web. The method includes obtaining a compression signature for a document, and determining the similarity between compression signatures of two or more documents. If the similarity is greater than a threshold measure, the two or more documents are considered to be by the same author. Scored pairs of documents are clustered to provide a group of documents by the same author. The group of documents by the same author can be used for user profiling, noise reduction, contribution sizing, detecting fraudulent contributions, obtaining other search results by the same author, or mating a document with undisclosed authorship to a document of known author.

Abstract: Techniques for providing temporally-based information to a medical practitioner are provided. The techniques include obtaining temporally-based information, wherein the information comprises medical information derived from the medical practitioner and one or more other medical practitioners, customizing the information for the medical practitioner, wherein customizing the information comprises using one or more diagnoses from the medical practitioner and one or more diagnoses from the one or more other medical practitioners made during a selected temporal period, and providing the information to the medical practitioner. Techniques are also provided for providing temporally-based medical information to an individual.

Abstract: A system and method including a simulator operating in conjunction with a search-engine, for improving document and site findability. Users input their content (pages or sites) and the simulator will analyze the site in terms of structure and content. It will then give the user a ranked list of suggestions about how the user might improve his/her site's findability. The user will then be able to apply some or all of these suggestions, or any other changes, by virtually modifying the site, and then immediately receive feedback both on how the pages look and a sense of the degree of findability improvement. The interactive process allows users to simulate modifications in their site structure and content in order to improve its findability. When the user completes the modifications and is satisfied with the new findability of his site, the user will be able then to replace his/her current site in the repository with the modified one.

Abstract: A first total number of nodes in a first node set directly linked to a first node can be computed. A second total number of nodes in a second node set directly linked to a second node can be computed. A shared total number of nodes in a union of the first node set and the second node set can be computed. A mutual information metric can then be computed from the first total, the second total, and the shared total. A decision as to whether a new connection should be added between the first node and the second node, which were not previously directly connected, can be determined from the value of mutual information metric.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the one or more channels based on the number of update events in a previous time period. The method may optimally include filtering the update events in the time period by a novelty measure, wherein the filtering disregards events that do not include significant novel information. The monitoring rate is adapted based on reinforcement learning applying iterative learning rules over time.

Abstract: A method and system for expertise extraction for an expert system, is provided. One implementation involves modeling active learning for interrogating an expert for knowledge as attributes of an n-dimensional hyper-cube where each attribute represents a possible output and every dimension represents a feature in a feature space; dividing the n-dimensional hyper-cube into m different attributes, each attribute representing a union of at most p cubes, wherein the n dimensions represent n boolean inputs and the m attributes represent m possible outputs; and discovering all possible outputs by querying a portion of the feature space for generating queries to an expert for all possible outputs, including obtaining at least one representative input for each of the m possible outputs, while using a limited number of queries to the hyper-cube.

Abstract: A novel and useful mechanism enabling a standard learning algorithm to generate rules for complex event processing (CEP) systems. The method creates rules that infer previously defined output events by creating input event feature vectors for each targeted output event. In addition, a method for automatically generating CEP system rules to infer output events which are anomalies (i.e. statistical outliers) of input event sequences is disclosed. Input feature vectors consisting of multiple input events and parameters for each targeted output event are then input into a standard learning algorithm to generate CEP system rules.

Abstract: A method for wafer manufacturing process abnormalities detection, the method includes: generating a classifier in response to compression based similarities between relevant wafer manufacturing process information of pairs of wafers; and utilizing the classifier to detect wafer manufacturing process abnormalities.

Abstract: Device, system, and method of debugging computer programs. For example, a method for debugging computer programs includes: locating a bug in a computer program based on a first score corresponding to a first instrumentation location of the computer program and a second score corresponding to a second instrumentation location of the computer program.

Abstract: A novel and useful method for enabling system logs to be effectively and efficiently monitored by ranking the system log messages by their estimated value to administrators and generating a log view that displays the most important messages. The ranking process uses a dataset of system logs from many computer systems to score messages. For better scoring, unsupervised clustering is used to identify sets of systems that behave similarly. The expected distribution of messages in a given system is estimated using the resulting clusters, and log messages are scored using this estimation.

Abstract: A method for generating a storage policy, the method includes: receiving a storage system target function; and generating, by a machine learning entity, the storage policy in response to: (a) a set of file-related storage operation requests, (b) a state of the storage system before responding to the set of file-related storage operation requests, and (c) the storage system target function. A method for evaluating a storage policy, the method includes: simulating an application of the storage policy by the storage system during a first period, in response to a set of file-related storage operation requests that was provided to the storage system during the first period, to provide a simulation result; wherein the first period starts before the simulating.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for detection of authors across different types of information sources such as across documents on the Web. The method includes obtaining a compression signature (303) for a document, and determining the similarity (304) between compression signatures of two or more documents. If the similarity is greater than a threshold measure (305), the two or more documents are considered to be by the same author. Scored pairs of documents are clustered (308) to provide a group of documents by the same author. The group of documents by the same author can be used for user profiling, noise reduction, contribution sizing, detecting fraudulent contributions, obtaining other search results by the same author, or mating a document with undisclosed authorship to a document of known author.

Abstract: A computer-implemented calendar verification system including a computer configured to operate a calendar application, and a consistency checker operable by the computer, where the calendar application is operative to record information regarding a scheduled event, and where the consistency checker is operative to determine the consistency of a sender time-to-event, received in a verification message for the event, with a recipient time-to-event calculated by the consistency checker using the scheduled event information.

Abstract: A query difficulty prediction unit includes a query difficulty predictor to determine the extent of overlap between query documents received from a search engine operating on an input query and sub-query documents received from the search engine operating on sub-queries of the input query. The unit generates a query difficulty prediction from the extent of overlap.

Abstract: A method and system for interactively navigating search results is provided. The method includes searching a set of documents (502) by applying a query (501), wherein the query (501) is formed of at least one relevant term and retrieving a set of result documents (503). The method includes analyzing the set of result documents (503) to find candidate terms (505) which partition the set of result documents (503). The candidate terms (505) are presented for selection to reduce the number of result documents.

Abstract: A method and system for analyzing a document set (202, 420) are provided. The method includes determining a set of terms (312) from the terms of the document set that minimizes a distance measurement (405) from the given set of documents (420). The method includes using a greedy algorithm to build the set of terms incrementally, at each stage finding a single word that is closest to the document set (202, 420). The set of terms is evaluated to assess the ability to find the document set (202, 420). The set of terms are compared with expected terms to evaluate the ability to find the document set (202, 420). A measure of the ability to find a document set (202, 420) is provided by computing a distance measure (403) between a document set and an entire collection.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for a list display with redundant text removal, the method including firstly displaying within a display area on a computer display at least a portion of a first item of a group of consecutive list items that share either of a common prefix and a common suffix, and a secondly displaying in a next list item display location of the display area an abbreviation indicator contiguous with a portion of a next item in the group, where the portion is at least partially unique to the next item with respect to positionally-corresponding portions of the other items in the group.

Abstract: A method and system of resource allocation for execution of a job are provided. The method includes receiving feedback (134) regarding the execution of previously submitted jobs on one or more resource nodes (101-104), and estimating the resources required for execution of a submitted job based on the feedback (134) and the parameters of the job. One, or a plurality of resource nodes in parallel, having the estimated resources are allocated the job. The feedback may be implicit feedback indicating the success or failure of the execution of a job. The one or more resource nodes (101-104) allocated for execution of a job may have less than a user requested resource allocation for the job.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for identification of input sequences is provided. The method monitors a plurality of commands received by an input device of a computer, analyzes the commands to identify a sequence thereof, and responsive to the identification of the sequence, determines a response action for execution by the computer. The apparatus includes a sequence tracker unit to track a selected sequence for identification from a plurality of commands received by an input device, a logic unit to analyze the selected sequence, a first database of a plurality of identified sequences, each of the identified sequences are coupled to at least one known response action, and a response action determination unit to determine a response action to the selected sequence, if the selected sequence is not coupled to the known response action in the database, or if the selected sequence is couple to a plurality of known response actions.